And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 185.

It's titled, Talking to Yourself.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Oh, how cheesy am I.

Hello there!

How's it hanging?

Feels weird doing so many episodes these last few weeks,

but the feedback has been

very, very good. I was a little bit worried, well, as worried as I get, because I know a lot of

you like what I do because it's monthly. And if you wanted more regular stuff, you'd have

become a patron by now and got weekly ones. Bringing out content too often might feel a bit overwhelming for people.

But I guess these weekly ones throughout June because they're taken from the live episode that I did.

They're a bit different.

So that's maybe why I've had so much positive feedback about them.

But it's not going to be a regular thing,

not just because there's really not enough hours in the day and days in the week to make as

many as I'd like. But like I say, if you wanted weekly content from me, you'd be supporting

me through Patreon for five quid a month or whatever. So today's episode follows on immediately

from last week's where I was talking

about mental narratives. If you missed it and you don't want to have to go back and listen to

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