Making Sense of Chaos

Maddie Brygel & Jason Weel
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“Making Sense of Chaos” is a podcast of people sharing their personal reflections on death, grief and chaos. Hosts Jason and Maddie currently work as counsellors in the addiction and family violence space. Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos Email: makingsenseofchaospod@gmail.com Cover art by Ethan Brivik https://www.ebphotography.net.

  1. 23/09/2022

    Sic Itur Ad Astra

    Ceara is a 37-year-old psychologist living with terminal illness. On this episode, Ceara speaks about facing her death, how she finds hope in uncertainty, and why she supports voluntary assisted dying. *Ceara is our first returning guest, and spoke to us back in July 2020. Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos Twitter: @msoc_pod   Contact Ceara: Twitter: @CearaRickard Instagram: @ceararickard https://www.gofundme.com/f/supporting-cearas-cancer-journey

    58 min

  2. 23/05/2022

    The Psychology of a Child Murderer: A Schema Therapy Lens

    Dr Lars Madsen is a forensic psychologist with 20+ years experience in the treatment of sexual and violent offending. On this episode, Lars shares anecdotes and insights from experiences across his career. He also discusses a case where he provided psychological assessment & treatment to a child sex murderer, using Forensic Schema Therapy.  Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos  Twitter: msoc_pod    TRIGGER WARNING: This episode describes heavy content.    Supports:  Lifeline - 13 11 14 1800 Respect - 1800 737 732   Work by Lars:  Article - Forensic Schema Therapy: The Joker  Upcoming Talk: Therapy in Confined Spaces: Schema Therapy  Lars’ Forensic Schema Therapy Course (6-week interactive self-paced online course that introduces therapists to Forensic Schema Therapy (ST-F)) Website

    1 hr

  3. 19/04/2022

    Hard Cuddles

    James Harding had his own experiences in the criminal justice system. Now he’s a counsellor, and uses his experience to help criminals change their story.  [Episode hosted by Maddie]. Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos Twitter: @msoc_pod SUPPORTS Lifeline - 13 11 14 Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636 Mensline - 1300 78 99 78 _____ Hard Cuddles: An innovative mental health service that specialises in counselling, forensic counselling, mentoring and peer support facilitated in an outdoor environment.

    53 min

  4. 28/03/2022

    Escaping the Diagnosis Trap

    In this episode we talk to Dr Ray Middleton on the consequences of medicalising psychological suffering into “mental disorders”. Ray is an independent trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the western diagnostic model of psychiatry. He is a lead trainer in the Power Threat Meaning Framework - a radically different approach to psychological suffering, which abandons diagnoses altogether, and offers an alternative to seeing oneself as "disordered" or "mentally ill".  In this episode, Ray shares how his own experiences as a psychiatric patient in the 1990s led to his current work.  Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos Twitter: @msoc_pod TRIGGER WARNING: This episode describes heavy content.    SUPPORTS Lifeline - 13 11 14 Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636   _____________________________ About Dr Ray Middleton:    Dr Ray Middleton is an independent trainer in strengths based non-diagnostic approaches to distress, including Trauma Informed Practice and the Power Threat Meaning Framework approach. Ray has a PhD on dialogical/narrative approaches to complex trauma and recently authored a book chapter on innovative trauma informed approaches to people who are homeless.  Previously, Ray has set up and managed personality disorder services, been a senior care co-coordinator in an early intervention in psychosis service and systemic practitioner within systemic family therapy.  For training enquiries:  - Contact Ray at Ray.middleton@ladder4life.com or via his website; www.ladder4life.com

    55 min

  5. 17/03/2022

    Close Call

    *Apologies for the audio quality in this episode - we appreciate your understanding as we work to improve for future episodes :) Jess has a background in psychology and criminology, and works in the reintegration space with long term & serious offenders. Jess chats with Jason about the different perspectives of grief, and why we are who we are. Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos

    1h 7m

  6. 06/03/2022

    Everything Happens for a Reason

    8 years on from his footy career, Brock McLean opens up about his battles off the field - bulimia, depression, anxiety and attempts at ending his life.  TRIGGER WARNING: This episode describes heavy content.  Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos SUPPORTS Lifeline - 13 11 14 Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636 Griefline - 1300 845 745 Mensline - 1300 78 99 78

    51 min

  7. 17/02/2022

    Living with Passion

    Emmy van Deurzen is one of the world’s most respected existential psychologists. This is a raw and intimate episode, where Emmy talks about death, love and how she makes meaning of life. Also discussed is society’s obsession with ‘being happy’, the medicalisation of human misery and the need to get to know our darker sides.  Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos

    1h 4m

  8. 13/02/2022

    The Calm & The Storm

    William Wainwright is a forensic psychologist with over 20 years experience in various settings, with a particular focus on sexual and violent offending.  In this episode, we discuss the psychology behind sexually abusing a child, how offenders justify breaking moral standards, and the cycle of shame involved in repeat offending.  We also discuss the trauma carried by emergency service workers, and how this is identified and treated within Vic Police. Jason shares some of his personal experiences of trauma working as a police officer, and later as a correctional officer in Parkville Youth Justice Centre.  Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos  _____________ About William:  William has acted as a court expert on numerous occasions and consulted and trained many audiences, including the police, judges, lawyers, DHHS workers, child protection workers, correction officers and prison officers.  In recent years, William has worked as the Senior Psychologist for the Police Psychology Unit and Family Violence Command, and was the key investigator of the 2016 Mental Health Reviews for the wellbeing of Victoria Police officers. William also trained officers in investigating and interviewing people accused of sexual offences.  William was also the president of ANZATSA, a not-for-profit organization designed to support practitioners working with sexually harmful behaviours both in the mainstream populations and disability. He has organized multiple local and international conferences as well as presenting regularly. Currently, William is the Manager of Evidence Based Programs for OzChild, a not for profit organisation that works with best practice programs to strengthen and reunify families. These programs are designed to maintain family networks to offer children safety and security. William is a registered supervisor and has supervised forensic and non-forensic psychologists. He currently runs a peer supervision program for provisional and registered psychologist to develop their practices and skills.

    56 min
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“Making Sense of Chaos” is a podcast of people sharing their personal reflections on death, grief and chaos. Hosts Jason and Maddie currently work as counsellors in the addiction and family violence space. Instagram: @makingsenseofchaos Email: makingsenseofchaospod@gmail.com Cover art by Ethan Brivik https://www.ebphotography.net.

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  • Creator
    Maddie Brygel & Jason Weel
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Making Sense of Chaos