Saving Lives In Slow Motion

When Life Doesn’t Go To Plan - what we can do to navigate it

Saving Lives In Slow Motion

Show Notes

Every week I meet people whose lives are changed by illness or events which make their life go in a direction they were not expecting. In this episode I look at what we can do to prepare for the unexpected.

Links:

The life of Mike Tetley MBE: https://www.bigredbook.info/mike_tetley.html

Adjusting to long term conditions: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10237456/

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now: https://eckharttolle.com/power-of-now-excerpt/

Hedonic adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr-43grEzw

Affective forecasting: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/affective-forecasting Save your life in slow motion and those of others by subscribing now and sharing. Thank you for listening and for your support. It means a lot to me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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