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Getting vulnerable with yourself might be the most attractive thing you ever do. This kiss-and-tell episode unpacks why my relationship ended, and what I learnt.

I’ve just kissed goodbye to someone I dated three years ago. She couldn’t really remember why we split… but I can. The truth is simple, but uncomfortable: it wasn’t her. It was me.

In an honest, very vulnerable reflection, I talk about the gap between looking confident and feeling confident, how neediness can show up when you’re not meeting your own needs, and why people-pleasing + over-giving can quietly wreck your emotional availability.

The core takeaway: you’ll only get what you want from a relationship when you prioritise self-care and protected time out. Not as a luxury—as a prerequisite.

If you’re navigating dating, ADHD overwhelm, emotional burnout, or you want healthier relationships with better boundaries, maybe this episode's for you!?

About the host:
I am a mental health and wellbeing coach who supports adults with busy brains — including ADHD — to find calm, clarity, and self-trust.

Support beyond the podcast:
I offer a free, no-obligation 30-minute call.
You’ll find my contact details below:

https://www.goodtothinkdifferently.com/coaching
ben@goodtothinkdifferently.com

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Jump in the car with me (literally) for my first truly rambly recording on the way to work.

I had no idea where this one was going!

I kick off with two years of stress headaches and end up covering:

- My experience from not drinking

- What podcasting has brought me

- How my limited company was holding me back

- Finally unmasking at the age of 50

- Authenticity, owning your personal brand and getting out your own way.

- A beautifully morbid but powerful question I ask of you too

- Finding the right coach for yourself

It's a messy, honest, but passionate episode and I really enjoyed recording it.

If you like heartfelt bollocks with a side-serving of “Shit, that’s me,” you’re in the right episode.

About the host:
I am a mental health and wellbeing coach who supports adults with busy brains — including ADHD — to find calm, clarity, and self-trust.

Support beyond the podcast:
I offer a free, no-obligation 30-minute call.
You’ll find my contact details below:

https://www.goodtothinkdifferently.com/coaching
ben@goodtothinkdifferently.com

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Episode 7: Get Comfortable Asking for Help

If you’re the one people come to, it’s hard for you to ask for help or admit you need some. It doesn’t come naturally to the people-pleasers among us.

In this episode of Something for the Busy Brain, I am talking about why asking for help can feel so hard, especially when you’ve got ADHD or a brain that never switches off. Not because you’re unwilling. Not because you’re difficult. But because you’ve learned, over time, that coping alone is what makes you “good enough.”

And I want to gently challenge that.

Because so many people with busy brains are walking around with invisible weight: overwhelm, decision fatigue, emotional overload, self-doubt, shame, the constant feeling of being behind… and a private fear that if you stop holding it all together, everything will fall apart.

This episode is a reminder that support isn’t weakness - it’s scaffolding.
It’s the thing that helps you breathe again.
Sleep again.
Think again.
Feel like yourself again.

I talk about what real support looks like (not being “fixed” - being supported), why the right people make all the difference, and a few simple ways to start asking without needing a full meltdown first.

And I’ll leave you with a small challenge: in the next 24 hours, to ask for one small piece of support - specific, simple, doable. Just one. Because you were never meant to do all of this on your own. You just got used to it.

About the host:
I am a mental health and wellbeing coach who supports adults with busy brains — including ADHD — to find calm, clarity, and self-trust.

Support beyond the podcast:
I offer a free, no-obligation 30-minute call.
You’ll find my contact details below:

https://www.goodtothinkdifferently.com/coaching
ben@goodtothinkdifferently.com