f your feelings weren’t seen, heard, or valued growing up—there’s a good chance you learned to disappear in plain sight.

In this raw episode of Tickety Boo, Andy, Ian and Iona open up about the long shadow emotional neglect can cast over your adult life.

We talk about:

• How you learn to minimise your needs to keep the peace

• Why ‘being easy’ or ‘low maintenance’ is often survival, not personality

• The inner critic you inherit when no one teaches you how to feel

• And how self-abandonment becomes a habit before you even realise it

💬 “It’s not that you don’t know what you want—it’s that you stopped asking a long time ago.”

We explore the uncomfortable truth: when your emotional world wasn’t mirrored back to you as a child, you grow up disconnected from it—and from yourself.

This episode is for anyone who was the 'good one', the quiet one, the fixer. The ones who learned to read the room better than they ever learned to read themselves.

🎧 Expect honesty, humour, and a few hard-hitting truths.
Because healing starts the moment you realise: you’re allowed to take up space.

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Avoidance isn’t always about procrastination. Sometimes, it’s protection.

In this powerful episode of Tickety Boo, Andy and Iona dive into the messy truth about avoidance—and why so many of us shut down, withdraw, or ghost our own lives when things get too real.

We talk about:

• The link between avoidance and trauma

• Why your brain sees confrontation, emotion, or action as a threat

• The stories we tell ourselves to justify not facing our stuff

• And how avoidance keeps you “safe”… but stuck

“It’s not that you don’t care. It’s that facing it feels like too much. And your nervous system decided a long time ago that silence was safer.”

Whether it’s avoiding difficult conversations, decisions, or your own emotions—this episode will help you see it for what it really is: a survival habit. One that might’ve served you before… but is costing you now.

Expect honesty, emotional punch, and that reminder you didn’t know you needed:
You're not broken. You're just tired of fighting battles no one else can see.

Listen to the full episode now, and for more insights, follow us on social media:
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🌍 Visit us at: www.piece-of-mind.co.uk/podcast
🎥 Full video episode available on our YouTube channel

There comes a point when ‘I’m fine’ stops cutting it.

In this raw and honest episode of Tickety Boo, Andy and Iona sit down to talk about the moment you realise you’re living a life that doesn’t feel like yours anymore and you’re pretending it’s okay.

We explore:

• The slow burnout of self-neglect

• How pretending becomes a survival strategy

• The warning signs you’ve been ignoring for too long

• The guilt that creeps in when you start wanting more

• And the reality that change often starts with one brutally honest moment

“If you keep telling yourself it’s not that bad, one day you’ll wake up and realise you don’t even recognise yourself anymore.”

This isn’t about blowing up your life overnight. It’s about pausing, questioning, and finally admitting the truth you’ve been avoiding.

If you’ve been stuck in a job, a routine, a relationship or even just a mindset that’s slowly breaking you, this one’s for you.

Real talk. No fluff. Just two voices saying the thing you might not feel ready to say but need to hear.

Listen to the full episode now, and for more insights, follow us on social media:
📲 Instagram: @pieceofminduk
📲 Facebook: Piece of Mind UK
🌍 Visit us at: www.piece-of-mind.co.uk/podcast
🎥 Full video episode available on our YouTube channel