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Feb 2025
1h 19m

9 Ways To Break Free From the Habits Tha...

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About this episode

How your reliance on being liked, being comfortable, and being perfect is blocking you from making the change you want.

 

Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is one of the most influential doctors in the UK with over two decades of experience. He now hosts Europe's biggest health podcast, Feel Better, Live More, he is the author of 5 Sunday Times bestsellers, he regularly appears on BBC television, national radio and his TED talk, How To Make Disease Disappear, has almost 6 million views. 

 

In this episode we talk about:

  • Why we have an overreliance on experts and perfection
  • Barriers and solutions to long term change
  • How to stop people pleasing (or become a “people pleaser in recovery”)
  • Tips for neutralizing emotional discomfort and stress
  • The "life is an escalator" myth, and our relationship with complaining 
  • How to adapt to adversity without feeding our bad habits
  • Escaping the trap of busyness
  • And much more

 

 

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