Living Expressions

Dr Mel Baker

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MENTAL HEALTH

Striking, conflicting, inspiring monologue of real moments in living with trauma and chronic pain towards recovery. You don't ever have to feel alone in a moment again. Enter the scenario with Mel through tough, good, funny and captivating moments that will hopefully encourage, inspire and empower you.

03/18/2025

Unbridled Courage

A group of strangers who once served the people of Australia on the frontline as first responders or military, gathered to begin a life changing program with ex-racehorses. Anxiety. Fear. Concern ruled their hearts prior to the program. What if I don’t belong? What if it doesn’t change anything? As the first day fears subsided, they each uncovered something new about themselves, something shifts, the load gets a little lighter. They connect with the horse, or with another participant. Upon completing the program, the participants return home with a renewed sense of self, better equipped to navigate life’s challenges with greater ease. What changed for S., Paul Coates and Mel? Listen to this special episode as part of Podcasthon 2025 raising awareness for Horse Aid. Horse Aid thrives on the community’s generosity to support serving and former first responders and military personnel with PTSD. Discover the program’s impact and how you can help by also tuning in to LivingWell Talks, where Dr Mel Baker talks with director and horseman Scott Brodie.

20 min
03/08/2024

We honour your story

In the spirit of International Women’s Day (8 March 2024), we celebrate the indomitable strength and courage woven through your narratives. Immerse yourself in this, where my poetry—born from personal tribulations and shared experiences—resonates with the enduring power of resilience and healing. It’s a tribute to women worldwide, a testament to our collective journey towards empowerment and recovery. Join us in commemorating this day, a milestone marked by the voice and story behind ‘Say My Name,’ Mel Baker. Let your narrative be the beacon that guides others towards healing. Share your story, find solace, and foster connection at LivingExpressions.com.au. To view the video of this episode with scenes from my award-winning short film, Say My Name, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRo-QmFFVKs Music composed by Quinn from Say My Name.

3 min
10/18/2022

Grief transforming

Grieving, a natural part of life, a living expression of an incredibly heavy moment. The last few weeks I’ve been sitting in the most heaviest grief I’ve experienced as my adopted dad passed away. In sharing my life with him and he with me, I allowed myself to be vulnerable. I got an opportunity to be loved, to have shared positive family experiences that I would never have had. I’m so grateful for those 21 years. In this monologue, I try to speak generically for any loss you may have experienced, whether your child, parent, sibling, grandparent, friend, or most loved animal. The price of love means grief then is so much more. Life has been heavy and empty, until you get to a place of transforming.

4 min
09/03/2022

Musical Rollercoaster

Life is most certainly a rollercoaster. One day everything is going fine, then we find ourselves hit with something that knocks us down. In my experience, I have found those little times in-between we can actually bring some life moments back into ourselves. Experiencing release in those times helps us to have the strength to keep going. This musical arrangement demonstrates all those moments in life. I certainly had some fun in creating it!

4 min
03/20/2022

Experience the Ride

For some, motorbikes are a way of life, a hobby, one cannot easily give up. For others, they have no inkling or understanding of the experience you feel on a bike. Enter my experience of riding in the city, on the open road in Australia and on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam. It most definitely is a freeing moment.

8 min
01/22/2022

Finding your jewel in a crazy world

There are some precious moments that are worth holding onto, especially in times of doubt. They can carry you. I met a man a couple of years ago. This moment was the moment of my life, when I met someone who truly understood me and I him. We had never experienced anything like it. I describe what this felt like this organic connection.

8 min
01/07/2022

In falling we shall rise

It is 2013. I am in the middle of training exercises on an Australian warship headed for the Middle East. In this monologue, I speak of two events I lived through. One in facing death after months of traumatic assaults, whilst trapped at sea; the other that gave me life when I met an ex-racehorse, two years later. Sometimes we fall, in falling we shall rise.

23 min
01/04/2022

Be who you want to be

Being weighed down by the past and pressured to get things done, we can easily lose sight of who we are. Growth begins with being open, to accept failures and celebrate victories, to find the strength within to overcome the war within ourselves. In this monologue, I reflect upon this journey in believing that I can make it.

7 min

Striking, conflicting, inspiring monologue of real moments in living with trauma and chronic pain towards recovery. You don't ever have to feel alone in a moment again. Enter the scenario with Mel through tough, good, funny and captivating moments that will hopefully encourage, inspire and empower you.

Creator

Dr Mel Baker
Years Active

2021 - 2025
Episodes

15
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Dr Mel Baker
Show Website

Living Expressions