I’m delighted to welcome Sunday Times bestselling author Owen O’Kane on to the show this week. Previously an NHS Clinical Lead for mental health, Owen is now a psychotherapist and bestselling author. His books have all sorts of intriguing names, like Ten Times Happier and Ten To Zen. But when I saw the title of his latest book, How To Be Your Own Therapist, my ears pricked up. This is a podcast about alone time and how to make it better – and given that therapy is something which many of us consider valuable, but remains expensive and inaccessible to many, I thought that self-therapy, as Owen describes it, sounds like a brilliant use of your alone time. In this episode, he reveals some of the practical wisdom he shares in his latest book – plus, a little more about his own background, and what led him on the his career path, plus how he likes to spend his alone time.

We discuss, among other things:

• How to stop living on autopilot and tune into the emotions driving your behaviour
• Owen’s practical, daily tips to administer ‘self-therapy’
• Owen shares the biggest indication, for him, that he needs some time alone
• We discover Owen’s background, and what led him to pursue this career
• How alone time helps therapists recover from the emotional toll of their job

You can order Owen O Kane's latest book, How To Be Your Own Therapist, now from Bookshop.org.

You can also order my book, Alonement: How To Be Alone and Absolutely Own It, which is based on this very podcast, now from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

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