This podcast episode is on “Self-Compassion: the Ultimate Health Guide. The inner voice as the supportive friend”. Research shows that self-compassion can lower levels of anxiety and depression. People who are self-compassionate tend to recognize their suffering and are kinder to themselves at these times, which can reduce anxiety and related depressive symptoms. Other benefits of self-compassion include an increase in motivation, happiness, improvement in body image, enhanced self-worth and greater levels of resilience. Furthermore, it is emphasized that self-compassion is a healthier alternative than self-esteem, as it fosters a type of self-worth that doesn’t require people to evaluate themselves based on social comparisons. For this podcast episode, we will explore some of the following: what self-compassion is, common self-compassion skills, how self-compassion can help us with our mental health and how we can practically implement self-compassion in our daily lives. Our expert speaker for this podcast episode is Mr Mark Joseph. He first started to practice mindfulness 20 years ago in order to cope with panic and anxiety. Mark travelled to the east to study mindfulness and consulted various masters on the subject including the Dalai Lama. He also lived at a Buddhist temple for 3 years to further his studies and meditation practice.  He thereafter returned to mainstream society to pursue a career in advertising, film and photography. He was the managing director of his own agency for 5 years before joining Mindful Revolution 3 years ago.

This podcast episode aims to provide valuable information on how our university students can create and maintain a workable routine with Online Learning. What to include in one's routine, productivity, motivation, boundaries, communication and self care are some of the important aspects which will be explored in this episode. Ms Alexandra Norton, a Counselling Psychologist from the SCU who has a passion for working with university students is the expert speaker for this podcast episode.

For this podcast episode, the aim is to share valuable information about depression with our UP students. Clinical Psychologist, Dr Hanlé Kirkcaldy is our expert speaker for this episode. This podcast episode will focus on the following: 

This episode explores relational well-being, focusing on what it is, why it's important and how our UP students can enhance their relational. Our expert speaker for this episode is Ms Ronel du Toit, a Counselling Psychologist from the Student Counselling Unit at the University of Pretoria with a special interest in interpersonal relationships and published author of the book titled "Relationships under pressure".

This is the very first podcast episode in the Mental Health & Well-being Podcast Series especially designed for our UP students proudly brought to you by the Student Counselling Unit (SCU) at UP. The topic for this episode is Resilience and our expert speaker is Prof Linda Theron, an esteemed and leading researcher/practitioner in the field of child and youth resilience. Listen further if you would like to learn about how you can develop or enhance your resilience.