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The agenda is unimportant, whether it's far-right or far-left, coercing children to eat burgers or broccoli, fight climate change or scam an elderly person out of their pension. We're being influenced, steered or manipulated constantly and tonight we want to shine a light on the processes behind this, in order to be able to recognise the difference between good and bad influences and act accordingly.

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It can keep us up at night for hours, playing reruns of the same film over and over again in our mind, or visualizing the worst possible scenarios of things soon to come. The tendency to overthink everything can even lead us down a treacherous path of anxiety and depression.

It’s like redlining a car’s engine with the parking brake pulled while the front wheels just spin in place. You burn out with a lot of smoke, but it gets you nowhere.

Overthinking is essentially being trapped in our own heads, overanalysing every little detail of a situation until we’re so far gone that we’re unable to take any action. When it gets really bad, it becomes what is called “paralysis by analysis”.

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Our young minds absorbed all the tales of princes and princesses until we internalized certain ideals of love and what our perfect relationship should look like, often believing that love always wins in the end no matter what. Then our teenage years and early adulthood came along and brought with them our first heartbreak, and everything we thought we knew about love came crashing down like a house of cards.

For most people, this is a learning experience we eventually get over and put behind us, but sometimes this can prove to be much more difficult. One heartbreak may be followed by another, until we begin to grow weary of love and start to develop a fear of intimacy. Perhaps you can identify with the above example, but childhood fairy tales are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how we develop our attitudes on love and intimacy as adults.

There are different reasons why people may struggle with intimacy in relationships, so let’s start from the beginning and take a look at what intimacy actually is.

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What happens in our mind underneath the surface? What's behind the infamous "Freudian Slip"? Is that dream you had last night trying to tell you something? Scared of something really irrational? How do politicians and marketeers sway voters and consumers in their favour?

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In this episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Director of the Personal Well-Being Centre, programme leader of the Masters in Integrative Counselling and Coaching at the University of East London, and founder of the Personal Consultancy model Dr. Nash Popovic. 

Nash explains his three-part Personal Consultancy model that integrates counselling and coaching, revealing why it is such an effective approach for enabling change and touching on the fundamental importance of ‘being’ with our clients before we begin any ‘doing’.

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Luckily, there are a number of things we can do to bring our fear of public speaking under control and deliver an effective presentation, and by doing so move forward in our professional as well as personal life.

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