Slices of therapy insights from psychotherapist Alun Parry, to make life better each day.
If there was one simple question that was proven to make you happier and even luckier, would you ask yourself it? In this episode, I'll teach you that question, how to use it, and why it works.
Ever get stuck in the procrastination of decision making? Here is what a football chairman and investment banker taught me about how to break free of decision paralysis.
Would you trust a financial advisor who was just guessing? What does artificial sweetener teach us about how the mind really works?
Problems often take our clarity from us. They can overwhelm and make us focus on them. How do we get some clarity back and get some forward momentum?
They call it talk therapy. But is there a better way to do therapy to get the change that you want faster?
Predicting the future is a good skill to have. In this episode, I show you how you can upgrade your own ability to predict what happens next.
My favourite question is: what would this look like if it was easy? How would we apply that to trauma? And what is the fatal flaw behind most therapy responses and self help advice?
A common objection to the idea of trauma removal is that it's too good to be true. So the very help they need is dismissed out of hand. As a result, they then opt for therapy that is at least a quarter of a century out of date. They keep the trauma and simply learn to manage it, with varying results. Yet you already have the ability to overwrite your trauma responses. It's your birthright and you were born with it.
Most of us suffer with the fear that we are not enough. I encountered this today in a group of music makers. In this episode, I explore the common belief of "I am not enough".
On the day before his 9th birthday, legendary improvised theatre teacher Keith Johnstone made a decision that changed his life. In this episode, I share what he did, why it was life changing and how you can do it too.
There's a strange phenomenon that I notice following successful therapy. Relationships get easier. People who were once hard to be around feel easier to be with. It's almost as if they had had therapy too. Yet the others haven't objectively changed. I've seen this so many times as a therapist. So what is going on here?
In this 300th episode I share 3 key lessons for reaching the milestones in your own life. All change is a journey. This episode is packed with advice about how to overcome failure, how to get what you want, and how to reflect and learn from even minor successes.
In this episode I share with you the exact process I use for my own annual review which I did yesterday. It's really useful and sets me up for the year, so I'd like you to know about it too.
Today is the shortest, darkest day of the year. Would you like to get an extra 8 hours and 45 minutes more daylight? Here's a magic trick that shows you how.
In order to get to transformational change, it helps to think of three opposites. In this episode, I share my mental framework for creating change when working with my own clients.
To make life better you have to do more, add more, create more - right? What if the opposite was just as true?
Nobody wants to cope with trauma responses. We want to remove them so they no longer get in the way of life. In this episode I explain the 4 step approach that I use with my own clients to eradicate trauma for good.
Would you like your needs met more often? In this episode I'll teach you a simple change that will result in a huge increase in getting what you most need.
Do you ever read autobiographies and wonder how they remember the word by word details of conversations from years ago? The truth is, they don't remember them. So what does this tell us about memory if the brain is happy to play fast and loose with details? And what aspect of memory does the brain hold onto very tightly? This is an episode about memory, Maya Angelou, and psychological change.
Do you feel anxious or depressed? Do you repress certain emotions? Have you ever noticed that you don't want to be cheered up, or maybe you feel reluctant to leave an anxious state? There's a lot of key information for you here if you know what to look for.
Have you seen the short film Ten Meter Tower. Make sure you watch it. Not only is it mesmerising, it shows how powerful the nervous system is whenever we want something that it views as dangerous. Does your nervous system stop you making the changes you want in life? Here's how to make change easy.
What can you do when you feel low self worth? You have tried everything but seem stuck with it. It's so rooted that you can't help wonder if it's even possible to unpick it. In this episode, I guide you through why low self worth is with you and why change need not be a long drawn out process.
What if you could identify the three key aspects that combine to impact your emotional wellbeing? In this episode I walk you through each of them and show you which ones to accept, what acceptance means, and which ones can be changed.
Your problem is getting in the way of your life and you've tried really hard to overcome it. Why on earth is it so stubbornly sticking around? Why isn't change happening even though you know it would benefit you? This episode explains how to find the real reason why. Here's the surprising part - your problem makes sense.
Does your nervous system hijack you into high anxiety or the depression of shut down? Do you self edit yourself from doing the things you want? Does old trauma still govern life? There's a way to reprogram your nervous system that erases trauma responses completely. Here's how.
You want a good relationship, but the same problems keep showing up again and again. Why are relationships so painful? Are you often hyper alert in panic mode? Or maybe you feel overwhelmed and shut down? Why does this happen, what role does the body play, and how can it be changed?
Ever wondered what the process is for permanent change? Would you like me to draw back the curtain and show you what I do to help you create personal transformation? In this episode, I reveal my 5 Step System For Personal Transformation
Ever heard of the rewind technique? If you want an example of what removing trauma looks like in practice, this is one of many approaches. I'll talk you through it in this episode https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
How does memory reconsolidation work? This episode identifies the 3 opposites that lead to permanent, effortless change https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
Removing your trauma responses follow the steps of a magic trick. It's all about breaking predictions. https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
Find out about the brain's built in mechanism for erasing trauma https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
We can follow the lead of the nervous system to a place of removing trauma response completely https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
Learn how to check in with what is happening in your body. Are you red green or blue? https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
Your nervous system has more control than you think https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
Does social media give us connection or hoodwink us away from connection? How to reclaim the reality of human interaction. https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
This episode is a special one. It's the first interview on the show - and it's a good un. I'm speaking to business author and coach John Lamerton. John is "a normal bloke from Plymouth" who quit his £10,000 a year job in the civil service to set up a business. This episode is as much about life as business - and he shares some great strategies on how to do it stress-free. He shares how to make it much more achievable than you ever thought possible through his system of simultaneous tweaks. You can find John at https://bigidea.co.uk where John runs his One Per Cent Club - and where you can find out more about his great books Big Ideas For Small Businesses and Routine Machine. Want a FREE download to 6 of John's best tips from the show? Get it from https://asliceoftherapy.com/john
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk
With Alun Parry https://liverpoolpsychotherapy.co.uk