This is Not Therapy

Oct 18 2024 28 ep. 26 mins 2
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Got a question about life, love or writing that is twisting your brain into a pretzel? Well, if all else fails, ask the poet.

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Traversing the fallow times with Ciarán Hodgers

Oct 18 2024 66 mins  
Let me tell you a story…One rainy Thursday in March, I was driving my friend and fellow poet, Ciaran Hodgers to Oxford train station. He’d performed at my gig, Everything’s Working Out Poetically, the night before and we had stayed up too late, drinking whiskey and eating M&S Pistachio and Almond cookies.We started the 40 minute drive by simultaneously saluting a single magpi

Everything's Working out Poetically

Oct 04 2024 62 mins  
After This Is Not Therapy was a book and a show but before it became a Substack, it was a podcast. A podcast that celebrated finding the ‘marvellous in the mundane.’ The podcast has been on an extended holiday for reasons that are too boring and varied to go through here but I am glad to say that all the episodes are now available on Substack! Hurrah!Also we have a new bonus ep

S3E5 Everything's Working Out ...Poetically

Dec 11 2023 49 mins  
Send us a textS3E5 Everything’s Working Out…PoeticallyThis week’s episode features edited highlights of Everything’s Working Out Poetically, recorded the the Old Fire Station in Oxford, November 14th 2023, which asked,How do you makes sense of a world that’s more chaotic than ever? With poetry, of course! Join Tina Sederholm and her gang of spoken word legends, including

S3E4 Where'd You Park Your Spaceship?

Oct 31 2023 67 mins  
Send us a textS3E4 Where’d You Park Your Spaceship?Sometimes you take a risk and the risk comes off. I asked one of my all time heroes, New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, if he would come on the podcast. And he said ‘Yep.’What?! On my little old podcast?We talk creativity and resistance, creative resistance, and the healing power of bread. Oh and about his new novel,

S3E3 Do This One Thing Every Day

Oct 17 2023 16 mins  
Send us a textS3E3 Do This One Thing Every DayEarly career writers often get the advice to ‘Write Every Day’. Adverts for fitness and self-improvement products exhort you to ‘Just do this for 10 minutes a day and your belly/ bank balance/life will change forever.’ But is it actually sustainable to do something every day? Let’s find out.REFERENCESNatalie Goldberg https://n

S3E2 Winner Never Quit, Quitters Never Win

Oct 03 2023 17 mins  
Send us a textS3E2 Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never WinWhat motivational quotes really get up your nose? In a slight departure from our normal format, I’m going to spend the next few episodes exploring common bits of life advice that are supposed to be uplifting and inspiring but can equally cause frustration. And the first one is…Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win. Th

S3E1 Treat Your Money Like Your Lover

Sep 19 2023 65 mins  
Send us a textS3E1 Treat Your Money Like Your LoverThis is Not Therapy is back for a third season, and yet again I’m kicking off with an off-piste episode where, instead of the usual format, I interview a fascinating individual to set the tone for the rest of the season. This time I am talking to my good friend Ivonne Senn about our relationship with money.Uh Oh…If thinking abo

S2E10 Read Hitchhikers!

Jun 27 2023 16 mins  
Send us a textS2E10 Read Hitchhikers!Do you have a book that you return to over and over again? What is it about that story? Is it getting lost in it that helps, or does it contain some wisdom, some clue that helps you makes sense of a chaotic world.In my early teens and twenties, that book for me was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I lost touch with it for a couple of decades,

S2E9 Till Debt Us Do Part

Jun 06 2023 25 mins  
Send us a textS2E9 Till Debt Us Do PartMoney and debt can be triggering at the best of times but during a cost of living crisis? Let’s not even go there. But maybe we should. Maybe it’s time to look those fears in the face, or at least peak between our fingers at them. In 2016, I wrote a show called Till Debt Us Do Part. Now I return to that show, to see if anything in it can c

S2E8 Memo to Mothers (and Those Who Are Not)

May 23 2023 18 mins  
Send us a textS2E8 Memo to Mothers (and Those Who Are Not)Whether you are blessed with child-bearing organs or not, I bet at some point in your life you tussled with yourself about whether to have children. I know I spent most of my twenties trying to avoid having children and then when the countdown to closing of that door began, I spent an inordinate amount of time and tears, try