Is Anxiety Ever Useful? Donald Robertson On Derren Brown
The Stoics can sound as if they want you to feel nothing. Donald Robertson, who has spent his career bridging Stoicism and modern therapy, takes that head on in this conversation. We talk through the ...
16 Dec 202113min
A Stoic Wake-Up Call For Procrastination
This guided reflection is meant to make you slightly uncomfortable. You will sit with the questions procrastination helps you avoid: Am I using my time well? Am I making excuses and calling them reaso...
10 Dec 202118min
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 Dec 20218min
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 Nov 202112min
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 Nov 20219min
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 Nov 20219min
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 Nov 202114min
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 Okt 20219min
