Stoic Insult Training: Practise Staying Calm Under Verbal Attack
An insult only stings if you let it through. The Stoics had specific methods for taking the heat out of it, and in this one we do not just discuss them, we drill them. I walk through how the ancients ...
2 Joulu 20217min
Stoic Negative Visualisation For Gratitude And Resilience
This is a guided meditation in the Stoic practice of premeditation of adversity. You will spend time imagining how much harder your life could be, and in doing so you will start to see how much you al...
25 Marras 202111min
Stoic Guided Reflection On Desire And Aversion
Epictetus had clear advice on the two pulls that run most of our lives: what we want and what we are trying to avoid. This is a guided reflection on both. You will sit with the questions slowly. Is it...
18 Marras 20218min
Stoic Object Deconstruction to Reduce Cravings and Attachments
We rarely see the things we crave plainly. We wrap them in a story, and the story is what hooks us. This guided reflection uses the Stoic practice of object deconstruction to strip that story back and...
11 Marras 20218min
A Guided Stoic Reflection On The Death Of Seneca
Seneca met his death the way he had spent years preparing to. This guided visualisation places you inside his body on his last day, so you can feel your way through what he faced. It draws on premedit...
2 Marras 202113min
Stoic Goal-Setting Visualisation: Focus On What You Control
Stoicism can look paradoxical at first. We are told the outer world is not ours to control and that our energy belongs on the inner one. So where do goals fit? The Stoics were not against having goals...
20 Loka 20218min
The Stoic Guide to Overcoming Anxiety
I lived with intense anxiety for the better part of a decade. It sent me down a lot of rabbit holes in personal development and philosophy, and most of what I now teach came out of trying to find my o...
10 Syys 202114min
Learning Stoicism: A Systematic Approach to Stoic Praxis
People often treat Stoicism as something you read rather than something you train. This episode is my attempt to lay out a more systematic way to actually practise it. It is a full talk I gave on The ...
7 Elo 20211h 8min
