The Richard Nicholls Podcast

Today is all about having meaning and purpose to your life, something that crops up a lot in emails from listeners and d... Read more

Regularly clients will tell me that they've had frightening bizarre thoughts, sometimes about hurting, or even killing, ... Read more

Although I’m not a relationship coach or a couple therapist a lot of clients will come to one to one therapy and discuss... Read more

If you Google the words "how to be more productive" you get 187 million results. Interestingly that's the same number of... Read more

Did you know that if you're physically tired then you will estimate hills as steeper than they actually are? And that a ... Read more

It's a new year! And for a hypnotherapist who specialises in helping people to make changes in their life people will of... Read more

Depression is a huge topic. It’s a big problem in the 21st Century and to try and understand it by listening to a single... Read more

It's often said that optimism isn't all it's cracked up to be. That expecting the best only leads to disappointment, and... Read more

Is there something you want to achieve that you know is going to take a while? Maybe something that has many steps, such... Read more

Many people feel a need to be unique, to be different from everyone else but that shouldn’t be at the expense of our sen... Read more

Imagine you're invited to a friend’s house for a party and you find yourself chatting to a total stranger. If they were ... Read more

Have you ever met someone with a wooden leg? Not a real wooden leg, but a metaphorical one? In the 60’s, a psychiatrist ... Read more

There’s an annoying quirk to our psychology that means we can easily be drawn towards the exact thing that we’re trying ... Read more

I've been thinking about this topic for a long time and I've been a bit wary of talking about it because what I mean by ... Read more

Making decisions can be hard, and not just with the big things in life.Sometimes even things that should be insignifican... Read more

October 10th is World Mental Health Day, and this years focus is on suicide prevention. Suicide is twice as common as Ho... Read more

If we’ve hurt someone then I think it’s probably healthy to feel bad about it, to wish that we’d behaved differently and... Read more

Despite their setbacks and failures some people seem to have the ability to brush things off and bounce back almost stro... Read more

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and because of that I have an extra episode this month for you! I met up with ... Read more

Over the last couple of years I've had a few messages from listeners about their fear of an uncertain future, and it's c... Read more