This IS My Brave Australia Mental Health Podcasts

Tim Daly
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This Is My Brave Australia is dedicated to breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness one story at a time. Our podcasts are stories from the community of lived experience of mental illness and recovery.

Episodes

  1. Shane Rattenbury Episode #7 Beyond The Cuckoos Nest Podcast

    05/24/2020

    Shane Rattenbury Episode #7 Beyond The Cuckoos Nest Podcast

    Shane Rattenbury is the Greens leader in the ACT Legislative Assembly and amongst his many portfolio's he is also the ACT Minister for Mental Health. We talk with Shane across many areas of the mental health environment in Canberra. How the bush-fires, hail storms and Covid-19 have affected Canberran's, the recent ACT Mental Health spending package, the Office of Mental Health and Wellbeing, social derteminants of mental health, peer workforce's, ACT Recovery College, the establishment of Safe Haven centres in Canberra and the first national meeting of mental health ministers in Australia.

    41 min
  2. Tara Apps/aboriginal youth mental health Episode #6 Beyond The Cuckoos Nest Podcast

    05/12/2020

    Tara Apps/aboriginal youth mental health Episode #6 Beyond The Cuckoos Nest Podcast

    Tara Apps works for Marathon Health as a Care Co-Ordinator and Social and Emotional Well Being Officer for aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in Yass NSW and the Australian Capital Territory. Tara indentifies as an aboriginal woman from Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal country.

    45 min
  3. Lisa Mossman Beyond The Cuckoos Nest Podcast Ep #5

    04/24/2020

    Lisa Mossman Beyond The Cuckoos Nest Podcast Ep #5

    Our guest today is Lisa Mossman I first met Lisa when she auditioned for our Central Coast TIMBA show last year. Lisa shared her story of her lived experience on stage dressed as an Armadillo. I will let Lisa explain that one. Lisa has gone on to start the J&B Foundation on the Central Coast and established the Therapuetic Garden Space at Epicentre at San Remo on the Central Coast

    37 min
  4. Lisa Westgate Episode #4 Warning: Topics include sexual assault and violence

    04/17/2020

    Lisa Westgate Episode #4 Warning: Topics include sexual assault and violence

    After over a decade as a paramedic, Lisa experienced PTSD, Anxiety and Depression which prematurely ended her career. Lisa's recovery and subsequent post traumatic growth has profoundly changed her life, for the better. Lisa founded Freedom Mindset Training in 2018 She shares her expertise in areas of mental health, self-care and Neuro-Linguistic Programming both Live and online. She is also a regular guest presenter and has a successful working relationship with Victoria Police as a Community Encounters volunteer and other organisations particularly related to her passion for front line mental health care. Lisa is a contributing author in the Amazon Number 1 Bestseller, ‘Changemakers: IWD edition’. Changemakers and her e-book “3 Keys to Outgrow Trauma: an alternative perspective from lived experience” are available via her website lisawestgate .com

    53 min

  5. 04/12/2020

    Trailer Beyond The Cuckoos Nest

    Trailer for Beyond The Cuckoos Nest Podcast

    2 min
  6. Mari Stracke Episode #3 social media, body positivity and mental health

    04/10/2020

    Mari Stracke Episode #3 social media, body positivity and mental health

    Mari is a London based creative who writes and produces film content as well as running workshops, is an actor, presenter, blogger, stand- up comedian and model. Mari graduated from the International Film School of Wales in 2009 and did her MA in scriptwriting at Goldsmiths , University of London completing her degree in 2011.She has worked consistently in creative industries in London, LA and Germany, where she was born. Those who follow her Instagram page or her blog maristrake.com will know that Mari is an ardent mental health advocate sharing freely her own mental health journey.

    46 min
  7. Anne Pratt OAM Episode #2 talks about HOME In Queanbeyan

    04/07/2020

    Anne Pratt OAM Episode #2 talks about HOME In Queanbeyan

    In our series of mental health podcasts we talk to Anne Pratt OAM, Manager of the HOME in Queanbeyan, a self funded residential project that provides housing for those with living experience of mental illness. We find out what makes HOME so different.

    29 min
  8. Zeb Khan, Psychologist Episode #1, talks about Covid-19 and mental health

    04/03/2020

    Zeb Khan, Psychologist Episode #1, talks about Covid-19 and mental health

    We talk to Principal Psychologist at Lifestyle Psychology, Zeb Khan, about mental health during the current Covid-19 outbreak, how it is affecting those with living experience of mental health issues and how best to deal with any problems that may arise from our period of physical isolation.

    31 min
  9. Martin Fisk Shares His Story About Addiction And More - This Is My Brave Canberra Australia 2017

    12/05/2017

    Martin Fisk Shares His Story About Addiction And More - This Is My Brave Canberra Australia 2017

    Martin Fisk is the Chief Executive of Menslink, a Canberra charity who provide counselling and mentoring programs for young men in the Canberra region. Martin tells his story of recovery from mental illness and his particular view on both the negative and positive aspects of his journey.

    7 min
  10. Sophie Hope

    11/08/2017

    Sophie Hope

    Podcast from our May 2017 show at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre Theatre

    7 min
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This Is My Brave Australia is dedicated to breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness one story at a time. Our podcasts are stories from the community of lived experience of mental illness and recovery.

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