A podcast exploring psychology, mental health, neuroscience, self-help and related subjects. A wide range of guests are featured, ranging from academics and medical practitioners who specialise in particular aspects of the mind and brain, through to medical and science journalists who keep tabs on the latest developments, authors of best-selling books on the subjects within our brief, creatives, artists and, occasionally, celebrities who have championed mental health and well-being. In addition, I interview lay people who have had interesting or powerful experiences that help to shed light on the workings of the brain and mind. <br/><br/><a href="https://henryhyde.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">henryhyde.substack.com</a>
Henry’s Second String Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Henry Hyde
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A podcast exploring psychology, mental health, neuroscience, self-help and related subjects. A wide range of guests are featured, ranging from academics and medical practitioners who specialise in particular aspects of the mind and brain, through to medical and science journalists who keep tabs on the latest developments, authors of best-selling books on the subjects within our brief, creatives, artists and, occasionally, celebrities who have championed mental health and well-being. In addition, I interview lay people who have had interesting or powerful experiences that help to shed light on the workings of the brain and mind. <br/><br/><a href="https://henryhyde.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">henryhyde.substack.com</a>
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Recent Episodes
February 23, 2025
Inside Your Head Episode 14
<p>In my introduction to the show, I respond to the fact that as a result of current affairs, and in response to news bulletins and social media posts, many of us are feeling heightened emotions such as fear, anger, frustration, anxiety and depression.</p><p>Drawing on my own experience as a cancer patient during the pandemic, which had a detrimental effect on my own mental health, I share some of the lessons I learned thanks to discovering a form of therapy called Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), a close cousin of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with which far more people are familiar.</p><p>To be specific, I focus on a brilliant book by psychotherapist Daniel Fryer called <a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.eu/d/f6nWBpM">The Four thoughts that F*ck You Up …and how to fix them</a>. This book really helped me to get a grip on my emottions at a time when a combination of the trauma of being diagnosed with cancer, and the treatment prescribed for me, really payed havoc and affected not only me, but also my relationships. I relate how my experience showed how the techniques of REBT were extremely helpful – and they might help you too.</p><p>The main section of the show is given over to my interview with the fantastic <a target="_blank" href="https://georginabruce.com">Georgina Bruce</a>, who not only has <a target="_blank" href="https://thedistractionist.substack.com">a lively account here on Substack</a>, but has also won awards for her short and otherworldly fiction (her White Rabbit won the British Fantasy Best Short Fiction Award in 2017), as well as being a screenwriter and teacher. Her approach is ‘bold as brass’ and forthright, but perhaps most of all she is extremely intelligent, funny and a great talker – ideal as a podcast guest! In a wide-ranging discussion, we cover her decision to become a writer, her creative process, some of the regrets she’s had along the way and some of her experiences dealing with the writing community compared to other creative pursuits.</p><p>Finally, my Relaxation on the Beach short, guided meditation continues to theme from the introduction, encouraging you to release rumination about the past and anxiety about the future and focus entirely on the here and now.</p><p><p>Inside Your Head is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p></p><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://albertellis.org/rebt-cbt-therapy/">REBT at the Albert Ellis Institute</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.danielfryer.com">Daniel Fryer’s website</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://britishfantasysociety.org/about-the-bfs/the-british-fantasy-awards/">The British Fantasy Awards</a></p><p>Alternative Ways to Support the Show</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://ko-fi.com/henryhyde">https://ko-fi.com/henryhyde</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://buymeacoffee.com/henryhyde">buymeacoffee.com/henryhyde</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Inside Your Head at <a href="https://henryhyde.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">henryhyde.substack.com/subscribe</a>
October 21, 2024
Barik's Blades: Prologue
<p>I’ve been thinking deeply about just what it is I want to be doing here on Substack. What can this place offer that the other online venues I frequent just can’t?</p><p>I think the answer to that question is “intelligent feedback”. The audience here is simply unlike anywhere else on the internet, with a preponderance of highly creative people, whether writers themselves or not.</p><p>How best to make use of the gift of your attention, then?</p><p>So, I thought it was about time I honoured a commitment to myself to finish a novel that I’ve been working on for a very long time. </p><p>I’ve been searching for the inspiration and energy to make progress and get the thing finished but, as you know by now, I’ve had a pretty rough ride over the last few years, which severely dented my motivation to make progress with my fiction. But here I am, with the first inklings of an idea to leave all that behind and set a new course.</p><p>So, what’s the plan?</p><p>* Firstly, reveal the fact that a manuscript exists <em>at all</em>, so that you can badger me to make progress.</p><p>* Secondly, to open up the Scrivener file and start chipping away at the story again, however slowly.</p><p>* Thirdly – and this is thanks to a “Eureka!” moment prompted by reading the work of <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/84954825-angeline-trevena">Angeline Trevena</a> – I’ve had a real breakthrough with my worldbuilding, an aspect of fantasy that I really love. I’ve probably created hundreds of maps over the years, and something that should have been blindingly obvious just smacked me in the face a few days ago. All will be revealed in due course!</p><p>* Fourthly, to perform the finished chapters in audio format, which I hope will be entertaining for you and challenging for me, both in terms of the storytelling and practising matching appropriate voices to the characters. I’ve already done a few, and it’s quite incredible how reading one’s own work aloud can reveal a lot about the style and cadence of the writing – especially where it’s <em>not</em> working! After all, if I’m stumbling over the language when I read it aloud, then that’s what the reader will be experiencing too, so edits are needed.</p><p>* Finally, over a period of what I imagine will be many months, I hope to get to the point where I have, at the very least, a decent, finished first draft, at which point I can draw the curtains behind me and get on with polishing the rough gemstone to achieve a fully-faceted diamond that people are prepared to pay money for and which I will be proud to see on the shelves.</p><p>And of course, then it’ll be time to do it all over again.</p><p>I also want to thank so many of the folks I know in <a target="_blank" href="http://allianceindependentauthors.org">The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)</a> who I have witnessed doggedly pursuing their writing and publishing dreams over the years, despite all the ups and downs, and a particular shout-out to my friend <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/3301677-roz-morris">Roz Morris</a>, author and editor (though she’s already told me that fantasy isn’t her bag so I’ll need to find someone else to do that job in due course) whose single-minded determination to write her remarkable stories is an inspiration.</p><p>I designed this temporary cover ages ago. Dusting it off, it’s not that bad!</p><p>I hope you enjoy the recording.</p><p><strong>Henry</strong></p><p><p>Thanks for reading Henry’s Second String! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></p><p><em>Audio recording, text and cover design © Henry Hyde 2024</em></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://henryhyde.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">henryhyde.substack.com</a>
October 8, 2024
On Repeat
<p>Does this ever happen to you?</p><p>You stumble upon a track – in this case, a song randomly recommended by Spotify, which does seem to have the most uncannily accurate algorithms that know me all too well – and suddenly, your whole world shrinks down to a strangely sacred place, inhabited solely by your brain and that melody, those words, those soaring chords.</p><p>The track takes you to a place that only you understand, evoking emotions and triggering memories that combine to take you somewhere entirely new, somewhere indistinct, somewhere beyond the veil of this world, strangely beyond your grasp, shimmering in the semi-distance of your imagination.</p><p>You allow yourself to submerge in this ocean of sound, surrounded by its sensuality, at one and the same time gasping for breath as you plunge into the feelings released by the powerful current of notes and the pulse of percussion, and yet with your eyes wide with astounding clarity about what you must do.</p><p>Write.</p><p>Write like there is nothing else. Write with an astonishing speed and ferocity, as though your mission is to keep up with the tempo of the tune, to infuse your prose with the spirit of the music, to capture the power within that musical rapture and transfer it to the page as if nothing else in the universe has meaning.</p><p>It doesn’t matter what the artist originally intended to capture with their composition. What <em>does</em> matter is what it means to <em>you</em>, the angels and demons it releases within your own soul, the memories or future hopes and fears that fly free as you immerse yourself in the song.</p><p>And then the end of the track arrives too soon, in mid-flow of the words you are dashing onto the page in a state of near-frenzy, so you click that little symbol that enables you to loop that single track over and over and over again.</p><p>And again.</p><p>And again.</p><p>And that is how you find me, with this track in my head (<em>Let It Go</em> by the Ambientalist, link above.) It’s been there on and off for days, this afternoon and evening for hours, brainwashing me into creativity, torturing me to tease out the pain that I’ve been feeling about a failing relationship. </p><p>You might hate it, or be indifferent to it, or maybe, just maybe, you’ll catch a glimpse of what I’m experiencing as I’m listening to it.</p><p>Or perhaps I’m just an oddball, weirdly obsessive in my love of and sensibility to certain kinds of music, trapped by some strange sorcery in the song that has its hooks in me.</p><p>But, for me, it’s hard to describe how deeply therapeutic it is to be in the grip of a piece of music in this way, how incredibly cathartic it is to be so deeply moved to purge myself of what I’m feeling inside and splash it onto the page, whether with pen or pixels. Music as emetic, as much as music as muse.</p><p>How about you? Do you ever find yourself in the grip of a song and can’t let go? Or even, like me, welcome its embrace, almost to the point of being choked by it, as tears roll down your face and your voice is reduced to a sob?</p><p>Don’t try telling me that I need therapy. This <em>is</em> therapy – and I’ve had enough of the formal kind in recent years to know that you release your trauma however you can, as long as it’s in a safe way.</p><p>And I know the music will never hurt me. It understands my obsession, and keeps me in its whirlpool embrace, enraptured by its rhythms just long enough for me to exorcise my demons and free my angels.</p><p>All is well. At least, it will be.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading Henry’s Second String! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></p><p><a href='https://ko-fi.com/A42152JZ' target='_blank'><img height='36' style='border:0px;height:36px;' src='https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/kofi2.png?v=3' border='0' alt='Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com' /></a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://henryhyde.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">henryhyde.substack.com</a>
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