WTF - Stories and Advice

About WTF - Stories and Advice

Caroline Cranshaw and Daryl Gove, are two expat hypnotherapists living in New Zealand. They love having chats with interesting people, telling crazy stories and giving hopefully good life advice. Listen if you are interested in psychology, tips for improving your mental health, sex life and relationships, WTF news, funny stories, the paranormal, book reviews, shocking listener stories, health tips and advice on how to improve your life... Warning: Adult language. If you are easily offended, this show is not for you.

Publisher

Caroline Cranshaw and Daryl Gove

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 May 2018

Latest episode

17 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

8 of 116 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Jul 2026

   Three Confessions, Three Disasters

   Three anonymous confessions this week, three people who have done a thing and now can't stop thinking about it. A guy who slept with his best mate's girlfriend while the mate was away, and now she's back for round two. A 36-year-old who quietly stole a junior colleague's project to get a promotion and is now the boss of the person she robbed. And a 29-year-old having dreams he can't explain and doesn't know if he needs to tell his girlfriend about. Caroline and Daryl work through all three: what confession actually costs, when honesty is generous and when it's just offloading, and why the dream might not mean what you think it means. Guilt, sex, workplace treachery. A classic WTF inbox. To find more out about Caroline Cranshaw & Daryl Gove https://nzhypnotherapy.co.nz/ https://www.darylgove.com/#/ Write to us if you have a question or want us to tell your story at wtfstoriesandadvice@gmail.com Loved this episode? We teach hypnotherapy. Caroline and Daryl run the Integrative Hypnotherapy Institute — an online school for people who want to actually help others (or themselves) with the tools we use every day. To find out about training in hypnotherapy with us, check out: https://integrativehypnotherapyinstitute.com → Certificate of Clinical Hypnotherapy: https://www.integrativehypnotherapyinstitute.com/offers/GLPdWvBX/checkout → Diploma of Integrative Clinical Hypnotherapy: https://www.integrativehypnotherapyinstitute.com/offers/iuR2rLtn https://www.youtube.com/@HypnosisTraining/ Timestamps: 00:00 — Intro 00:49 — Letter one: the best mate's girlfriend 11:54 — Letter two: the workplace credit theft 17:24 — Letter three: the dreams 25:04 — Wrap up Intro Music By Soul (Vlog Music) by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m0UBmJLv208

2. 

   9 Jul 2026

   Schemas: Why You're Like This

   Ever wondered why you keep ending up in the same fight, dating the same person in a different body, or working yourself into the ground for people who don't notice? There's a name for it: schemas, and Caroline has been down a rabbit hole on this. Schemas are the deep emotional patterns that got wired in when you were small and haven't updated since. Abandonment, defectiveness, self-sacrifice, unrelenting standards, mistrust — you'll probably recognise yourself in at least two of these. We walk you through the most common ones, the three ways people cope with them (spoiler: none of them are working), and what actually shifts them — because insight alone is not going to do it. Schema Quiz https://www.attachmentproject.com/early-maladaptive-schemas/ Also in this one: why making friends as an adult is a whole thing, a Netflix rec that will hook you in one episode, and a genuinely unhinged tangent about UFOs and alien abductions. As you do. To find more out about Caroline Cranshaw & Daryl Gove https://nzhypnotherapy.co.nz/ https://www.darylgove.com/#/ To find out about training in hypnotherapy with us, check out: https://integrativehypnotherapyinstitute.com Write to us if you have a question or want us to tell your story at wtfstoriesandadvice@gmail.com Loved this episode? We literally teach this stuff. Caroline and Daryl run the Integrative Hypnotherapy Institute — an online school for people who want to actually help others (or themselves) with the tools we use every day. → Certificate of Clinical Hypnotherapy: https://www.integrativehypnotherapyinstitute.com/offers/GLPdWvBX/checkout → Diploma of Integrative Clinical Hypnotherapy: https://www.integrativehypnotherapyinstitute.com/offers/iuR2rLtn https://www.youtube.com/@HypnosisTraining/ Timestamps: 00:00 — Weekend banter and the birthday curry 05:18 — Why you repeat patterns: schemas explained 09:38 — The common ones: which are yours? 24:12 — Survival modes and how people cope (badly) 30:37 — What actually shifts them 35:16 — Netflix pick, books, and the UFO tangent 42:39 — Outro Intro Music By Soul (Vlog Music) by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m0UBmJLv208

3. 

   29 Jun 2026

   Honey I killed the hitman

   In 2006, an ER nurse came home from a twelve-hour shift in Portland, Oregon and walked into the wrong room at the wrong moment. Her husband had arranged a surprise for her. He thought he'd never see her again. He was right — but not for the reasons he expected. div]:bg-bg-000/50 [&_pre>div]:border-0.5 [&_pre>div]:border-border-400 [&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> What happened next involves a claw hammer, a hitman who picked the worst possible target, and a sentence to the paramedics that became one of the most quoted lines in American true crime. Caroline and Daryl tell Susan Kuhnhausen's extraordinary story and then go absolutely everywhere with it — strangulation safety (yes really), celebrity death rumours, self-defence law, the UK unrest, why church might be making a comeback as a third place, and a French film with a gender-swap premise so good they're still thinking about it. Genuinely wild story, genuinely wild tangents. To find more out about Caroline Cranshaw & Daryl Gove https://nzhypnotherapy.co.nz/ https://www.darylgove.com/#/ https://www.youtube.com/@HypnosisTraining/ To find out about training in hypnotherapy with us, check out: https://integrativehypnotherapyinstitute.com Write to us if you have a question or want us to tell your story at wtfstoriesandadvice@gmail.com Timestamps: 00:00 — Accents, Tourette's, and a Scottish film rec 01:48 — The case begins 06:51 — Strangulation, kink safety, and celebrity rumours 15:46 — The break in the case 22:30 — Self-defence law, riots, and policing 33:27 — Church, faith, and the third place 41:40 — Michael Jackson, the French film, and Sacha Baron Cohen 49:23 — Outro Intro Music By Soul (Vlog Music) by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m0UBmJLv208

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Help, I can't stop buying things I don't need...

Published 15 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] As humans, right, that's what we did. If you didn't hoard by the autumn and the winter was long, then by the end of the winter, you're all dead, right? So there is definitely a psychological positive reason why we're doing this. This is not you being crazy. This is not you being ridiculous. […]

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