Life Matters - Separate stories podcast ABC listen

You are going for your dream job when you realise that you have history with your new would be boss.

Guests:

Lizzy Hoo, stand-up comedian, presenter, writer, and actor

Patrick Lenton, writer, journalist and author

When we're young, friends are everything and making new friends can be as easy and simple as having a shared interest. But as we grow older we seem to shed friends, and getting them back can be challenging. 

Dr Zoë Krupka , psychotherapist and clinical supervisor joins Beverley Wang to step through how to make and maintain social connections as we age.

Most of us know how to reduce our risk of developing heart disease, diabetes or ding from Covid. 

But with new research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare highlighting the most common causes of death in Australia, we look at the lesser known non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. 

Known as psycho-social factors or social determinants, these are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age and they can have significant implications for health. 

Ailsa Piper is a writer whose latest offering For Life explores grief.

She shares what it means to let move past grief, how bodily shifts can make a difference to our state of mind and the power of swimming.

Hitting puberty is challenging enough, but 13 per cent of Australians experience early puberty (for females, this means getting their period as young as eight), and new research shows there are unique brain changes for this cohort making them particularly vulnerable to mental health symptoms. 

Dr Nandi Vijayakumar, Professor Susan Sawyer, and Olivia Bellas look at how parents and schools can better support them.

 

Do dreams serve an evolutionary purpose? They're energy-zapping and leave us vulnerable to predation and yet dreams are necessary. 

Hilary Harper is joined by Rahul Jandial, an expert who's uniquely placed to talk all things brains and dreams.