The Good Year - A Tale from Crosshollow

t's the best year of Seb's life — a full barn, a fine calf, money put by at last — and he can't enjoy a moment of it, because a man who has known the thin years knows that everything good can be taken. So he braces. In this episode we use the tale "The Good Year" to explore a genuinely surprising piece of psychology: the Contrast Avoidance Model, which found that chronic worriers worry on purpose — staying in a steady dread so that loss can never blindside them. The trouble is, it's a trade that never pays: you give away the good thing in advance to avoid losing it later, and so you never really have it at all. We talk about the quiet way out — Wyn's way — accepting that everything ends and choosing to have the good thing anyway, while it's still warm in your hands. A conversation about worry, presence, and the small, radical act of letting yourself be glad. The podcast has an accompanying blog: The Good Year - A Tale from Crosshollow