Best podcasts of the week: Kick off 2024 with a self-help show free from ‘delusional positivity’
by Alexi Duggins, Hannah Verdier and Hollie Richardso from Technology | The Guardian on (#6HEES)
In this week's newsletter: Artist and activist Scottee cues you up for a healthier year with Self Help. Plus: five of the best podcasts hosted by families
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Scottee: Self Help
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Cabaret artist and activist Scottee has tried many mental health solutions over the years. Now he promises an amateur's guide to staying alive ... fuelled by class, queerness and fatness". His podcast is an antidote to what he describes as delusional positivity". Framing sanity as a house of cards, looking at how self-pity could help with healing, and showing how capitalism has exploited sadness, it's thoughtful, helpful and forthright. Hannah Verdier