• Episode 4- Know Your Why!
    Dec 20 2024

    Knowing your internal motivators is essential to have direction, motivation and purpose in life.


    In this episode, Alice will guide you in differentiating between internal and external motivators and

    will help you to identify your Values: the everlasting internal motors of our lives.


    To know more about Values, please watch our Values Vs Goals video in our FREE resources on :

    https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources


    To join the waiting list for the next intake of the Living a Meaningful and Successful Life program, please visit:

    https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course


    If you have any questions, please send them to: MentalChats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk


    and if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a great review and share it, share it, share it with anyone you care about helping on their life journey.


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  • Episode 3 - The 5 elements to Living a Meaningful and Successful Life
    Nov 14 2024

    In this episode Alice explain the 5 essential steps you need to take to create the life you want to live.


    If you have any questions on the concept explained, please email us at MentalChats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk and we will do our best to answer in one of the next episodes.


    In this episode, Alice also talks about the Hero's Journey. To know more about the Hero's Journey visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey


    To have a look at our Living a Meaningful and Successful Life programme visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course


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    21 mins
  • Trailer
    Oct 5 2024

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    1 min
  • Episode 2- Function of Emotions
    Oct 5 2024

    In this episode Alice explains why our emotions are healthy helpful responses and what the function of Fear, Anger, Sadness and Joy is.


    Any questions, please emails us at mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk


    To access our FREE resources visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-online-courses



    For more detailed information on the scientific research about primary emotions visit:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_accounts_of_emotion

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification


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    17 mins
  • Episode 1- What is this all about?
    Sep 12 2024

    Welcome to the first episode of the Mental Chats podcast!


    In this episode Alice will explain the aims for this podcast and will introduce the theoretical models she uses to help people improve their lives in her daily work as a Clinical Director at Crossroads Psychology.


    These are: CBT, Mindfulness and ACT, models that you will soon learn, and that you can apply to your life, to change it, improve it, or perfect it.


    You can find the Crossroads Psychology's FREE resources mentioned at https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources


    If you like this podcast, please leave us a review and share it, share it, share it with friends and family.

    This will help us to reach more people and improve more lives.


    If you have any questions, topics that you would like Alice to cover, or you would like to be featured on the podcast, please send an email to mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk


    References:


    Evidence of effectiveness of CBT

    https://babcp.com/What-is-CBT/Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-Whats-the-Evidence

    The efficacy of CBT, a review of meta-analyses

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/



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    13 mins