9 episodes
Mind Matters with Dr Sian Channel 5 News
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- Health & Fitness
There’s always a story behind the story. Broadcaster and Chartered Psychologist Dr Sian Williams has spent decades on TV reporting the headlines, but she knows there’s so much more behind them. In ‘Mind Matters with Dr Sian’ she digs a little deeper, giving people you may know a space to open up and share the stories that shaped their lives.
Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller.
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Samantha Renke: The highs and lows of living with a disability
Writer and disability rights campaigner Samantha Renke is a wheelchair user living with brittle bone disease.
Here, she opens up with Dr Sian Williams about the highs and lows of living with a disability, how constantly being subjected to microaggressions can feel like death by a thousand paper cuts, and how she's finally learnt to embrace her uniqueness.
Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller. -
Danniella Westbrook: My journey from addiction to recovery
Eastenders star Danniella Westbrook talks to Dr Sian Williams about coming to terms with fame at a young age, how drugs and alcohol took a toll on her life and how, now that she is clean, she is hoping to help others battling addiction by sharing her story.
Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller. -
Dr Alex George: My mental health struggle and coping with the loss of my brother
As a child struggling with anxiety himself, mental health campaigner and former Love Island contestant Dr Alex George is passionate about helping the younger generations better manage their mental wellbeing.
Here, he talks to Dr Sian Williams about his struggles with mental health growing up, how he's coping with his brother's death by suicide and hoping to challenge the stigma and shame that are still attached to mental health issues nowadays.
Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller. -
Gizzi Erskine: ADHD has become my biggest superpower
Chef and TV personality Gizzi Erskine opens up with Dr Sian Williams about being diagnosed with ADHD and ODD - or Oppositional Defiant Disorder - and how it has affected both her personal and professional life.
Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller. -
Holly Matthews: How I coped with my husband's death at 32
Aged 32, after her husband Ross died of a brain tumor in 2017, former actress turned life coach Holly Matthews had to figure out how to do life as a widowed mum of two.
Here, she talks to Dr Sian Williams about discussing the topic of death with her children, and how how her self-help book, "The Happy Me Project", became her coping strategy to deal with bereavement.
Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller. -
Gary Numan: My life under the spotlight with Asperger's
What's it like to be shy - and yet spend much of your life in front of hundreds of thousands of people? Pop star Gary Numan was huge in the 70s and 80s, with hits like 'Cars' and 'Are Friends Electric'. But he always felt like he struggled to fit in, and as a child, was told he probably had Asperger's, a form of autism.
Here, he talks to Dr Sian Williams about his four decades in music - and what it's been like to live with Asperger's and yet spend a lot of time under the spotlight.
Mind Matters with Dr Sian is a podcast from 5 News, hosted by Dr Sian Williams. Producer: Katie Goodman; Executive producer: Silvia Maresca; Guest producer: Jacqui Fuller.