#27 Melie Kerr - The Journey from out of the Darkness Follow Through with LVB

In this episode, Melie with host Logan discuss his Journey:
Chapters
(4:11) - Melie has the golf bug…
(6:02) - How Melie got into Leg-spin bowling? Bowling and learning with Peter Younghusband. 
(10:57) - Growing up in Tawa and having Sophie Devine as a Role Model from the same town… 
(13:47) - Core Values that Melie’s Grandparents and Parents instilled in you growing up that Melie takes forward into her life… 
(19:24) - What tools or methods does Melie use after a bad performance to help her get back to her best self… 
(22:27) - Not riding the highs too high, how Melie levels herself out… 
(24:09) - On the Bad Days… How Melie gets back up to level status… 
(26:28) - Melie’s Mental Skills toolbox… 
(28:23) - Staying Present helps you stay level… looking back makes you feel depressed, looking forward raises anxiety levels… 
(31:11) - Logan recognising Melie’s Follow Through in her awareness for Mental Health
(32:57) - Melie experiencing her first Panic Attacks … 
(38:07) - A panic attack feeling… 
(39:53) - How Melie deals with her panic attacks coming on and her views on medications and acceptance of using them…  
(45:14) - Melie’s family intervention in 2021…
(54:31) - Moving back home to my parents… going to the crisis team at the hospital and them giving mum and dad a plan… 
(57:53) - If you have a friend that is struggling with Mental Health, what are the top priorities you can do to help them… 
(1:01:39) - Mental Health doesn’t discriminate… from the outside looking in, how could you be depressed when everything is going so well… 
(1:04:07) - Here and today… Melie feeling a lot better now… what she does to mitigate panic attacks and depressive episodes… 
(1:08:05) - How the Treading Water series came about and why did you want to do it… 
(1:12:12) - What has been the response from the Treading Water series… are there any stories of people you have helped from the videos… 
(1:16:04) - Who is post cricket Melie in fifteen years time… what is she doing? 
 
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