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 183.

It's titled The Meaning Behind the Thinking.

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

Hey, hey, hey people. How are you all?

I've got a treat for you this month.

Well, you might think it's a treat, I don't know yet, because last month for Mental Health Awareness Week, I made some live streams over YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

If you're on my newsletter subscription list, then you'd have had an email about it.

It was basically an extra long podcast episode because I've been asked many times if I'd

ever consider a live show in a theatre or something to maybe do a little UK tour, you know,

north, south, east, west and midlands, that sort of thing for you to come and see me in person.

And it would be a lovely thing to do. And

maybe I will one day, but obviously not right now, not when we're still halfway through trying

to control the spread of a highly contagious virus. So I did it online instead, which was less scary

for me because it didn't matter if only 10 people showed up and I could do it

for free. Turns out a lot more than 10 people showed up on all of them, even on Instagram,

and that means holding a phone for nearly an hour. And like I say to my online clients who want

therapy using their phone, it's not always how heavy something is that makes it difficult,

is how long you've been holding it for.

But there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of you in total,

so thank you very much for joining me live.

And for those of you that missed it, or had to dip in and out, as I suggested,

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