We sit down with Shibs, a proud Wulgurukaba, Gunggandji Woman, Lived Experience worker, and passionate advocate for proactive changes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples accessing mental health services. With warmth and honesty, she shares her journey of navigating identity, living with chronic pain, and the healing that comes from reconnecting with culture and traditional practices. Learn more about Ngangkari: https://www.npywc.org.au/what-we-do/ngangkari-traditional-healers/ Come and listen with: Lucy (She/Her) – A big fan of ice cream and storytelling Rachel (She/Her) – Social Worker, Dialogical Practitioner, mad footy fan and wildly passionate about transforming the culture of mental health services to be person-led and human rights informed. Incredible artwork @sharleencu_art Shout out to Amplify for welcoming us into their recording studio EPISODE TRANSCRIPT – Healing through connection [00:00:00] Lucy: This podcast has conversations around different mental health experiences that may be distressing for some people. If that doesn’t feel like something you want to explore today, you might want to visit another podcast and come back to us another time. [00:00:13] Rachel: discovery college acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to lands, waters and community. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to the elders, past and present. They have never ceded sovereignty. [00:00:32] Shibs: I saw a Ngangkari, which is an Aboriginal traditional healer. When you talk about healing, that is healing on steroids. These are things that aren’t utilized and knowing how much of an impact it’s had on my life, when you also are drawing on the strength of connection with your culture as well, there’s something really beautiful and magical that happens. And I hope to see a day where there’s a medium ground where we can come into those spaces and have access to both. Traditional healing has a place and it needs to be, you know, respected and really upheld in that space as well. [00:01:11] Lucy: I’m Lucy. [00:01:12] Rachel: And I’m Rachel and we’re the hosts of the Extremely Human podcast. [00:01:16] Lucy: Sometimes we move through big human experiences that others might not understand, like psychosis, grief, addiction, euphoria, or moments that feel completely unreal. [00:01:28] Rachel: On Extremely Human, we hear from people who’ve been there and share what they’ve learned along the way. Together, we ask, how can we meet the full range of human experience with kindness and compassion? [00:01:41] Lucy: In this episode, we sit down with Shibs, a proud Wulgurukaba, Gunggandji Woman, Lived Experience worker, and passionate advocate for proactive changes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples accessing mental health services. With warmth and honesty, she shares her journey of navigating identity, living with chronic pain, and the healing that comes from reconnecting with culture and traditional practices. [00:02:08] Rachel: Welcome, Shibs. Thank you to our Extremely Human podcast. We’re really great to have you here today. [00:02:13] Shibs: Yes, thank you. I feel really grateful...
