Harden Up (And Other Unhelpful Advice)

Melissa Harries and Thomas Pulleine
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  • MENTAL HEALTH

A review of self help books and products from two completely different angles:  the psychologist and the ex-infantry soldier.  Melissa Harries is a masters qualified registered psychologist with over 20 years experience working with people under stress including the military, emergency services and the NRL. She has a practice in Newcastle NSW where she helps both individuals and workplaces to build resilience.  Tommy Pulleine is a mental health trainer who served as an Infantry soldier for 17 years including deployments to Iraq, East Timor and the Solomon Islands. Tommy has experience as a mental health instructor for TAFE NSW, Open Arms and Mindset Training. He is passionate about peer led interventions for workplaces and community groups that de-institutionalise mental health support.    Book smart meets street smart. They dont always agree on what is helpful, but then thats what makes the discussion interesting. 

Episodes

  1. JAN 20

    Ep 5: Reviewing The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

    Send us a text In this episode of Harden Up (and other unhelpful advice) Mel and Tommy discuss the hugely popular Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. Does it tell you to harden up? Yep, a little. Does it tell you how to harden up? Not so much. Look, its not all bad but there are gaping wide holes that arent very helpful.

    38 min

  2. JAN 20

    Ep 4: Reviewing Timor Awakening (veteran wellbeing course)

    Send us a text In this episode Tommy talks about his experience on the veteran wellbeing intensive he attended called Timor Awakening, a peer led residential education program that teaches veterans how to improve a range of wellbeing skills.

    27 min

  3. JAN 20

    Ep 3: Reviewing Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal (Audible Original lecture series)

    Send us a text This episode reviews the 6 part Audible Original lecture series Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal by Dr Kyler Shumway and Dr Daniel Wendler. This is a bite sized piece of education at only two and a half hours long which provides quite a few nuggets of gold.

    26 min

  4. JAN 20

    Ep 2: Reviewing the Tech Diet For Your Child and Teen by Mark Marshal

    Send us a text In this episode Tommy and Mel discuss educational book by Australian Psychologist Brad Marshal The Tech Diet for Your Child and Teen. This book was super helpful for parents to "reclaim your kid's childhood and your family's sanity"

    34 min

  5. JAN 20

    Ep 1: Reviewing Everything is Fucked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson

    Send us a text In the first recorded episode of Harden Up (and Other Unhelpful Advice) Mel and Tommy discuss the merits (and otherwise) of the popular self help book Everything is F****d: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson.

    38 min
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A review of self help books and products from two completely different angles:  the psychologist and the ex-infantry soldier.  Melissa Harries is a masters qualified registered psychologist with over 20 years experience working with people under stress including the military, emergency services and the NRL. She has a practice in Newcastle NSW where she helps both individuals and workplaces to build resilience.  Tommy Pulleine is a mental health trainer who served as an Infantry soldier for 17 years including deployments to Iraq, East Timor and the Solomon Islands. Tommy has experience as a mental health instructor for TAFE NSW, Open Arms and Mindset Training. He is passionate about peer led interventions for workplaces and community groups that de-institutionalise mental health support.    Book smart meets street smart. They dont always agree on what is helpful, but then thats what makes the discussion interesting. 

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