Don't Quit on Me

Edwina Kempe lives and works on Turrbal, Jajera and Jinibarra Country in Meanjin, also known as Brisbane. Edwina is an accredited mental health social worker and a qualified yoga teacher. Edwina's, also qualified in trauma center, trauma sensitive yoga as a facilitator, trainer, and mentor. Her framework is trauma informed and committed to social justice issues that underpin her work.

Having worked in the community sector in a range of service environments, including homelessness, refugee health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and Women's Services, Edwina currently offers canceling trauma sensitive yoga. Supervision and training online and in Red Hill in Brisbane. Edwina believes connection to self and others through the body can provide a pathway to healing and feels privileged to support individuals.

Through a safer integrated approach to treatment. This treatment facilitates connection with themselves, their bodies, and also with others as they guide their own personal healing journey or professional development.

https://www.edwinakempe.com.au/

Kelly Boys is a mindfulness trainer and author of The Blind Spot Effect. She has created mindfulness programs for UN humanitarians and veterans with PTSD, and directed a teacher training for Google. She has worked with the United Nations Foundation, Search Inside Yourself Institute, and the Integrative Restoration Institute, and is the founding advisor for the Simple Habit meditation app. She currently works with the Foundation for a Mindful Society helping to grow their Mindful Cities program.

Kelly is a warm & insightful human, with a huge amount of experience in utilising and sharing meditation and compassion based tools in the most intense arenas. I hope you enjoy the chat.

If you feel moved to provide support to the show, please get in touch on Instagram at dontquiton.me

Find Kelly at:

https://www.kellyboys.org/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnTQCQQSelxQnJ7XrI32UyA

https://www.instagram.com/kelly.boys/

Dr Jakqui Barnfield FACMHN, MACN - Director of Clinical Services

As a registered nurse, focusing her career in the area of mental health, Jakqui has held various roles in the tertiary public health sector and is a passionate advocate for mental health and suicide prevention. She is committed to holistic care, ensuring services strive to meet the needs of consumers, their families and our community.

With over ten years' experience as a Director of Nursing and Operations, she specialises in innovation, strategy implementation and supervision with a strong focus on quality and safety. She is an avid reader of texts that blend scholarship and praxis with content and context that ranges from leadership to clinical practice to research and innovation. Her PhD study focused on experiences of both nurses and consumers when faced with caring for or being the recipient of hospital admission following a suicide attempt. Jakqui has been involved in the education and curricula content development of undergraduate and postgraduate nurses and delivered workplace and community education and training.

As the Director of Clinical Services at On the Line Australia, Jakqui is responsible for the clinical delivery of national mental health helplines, Mensline Australia and Suicide Call Back Service, as well as counselling services for state-based programs and Primary Health Networks in Victoria, NSW and SA. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses and a Member of the Australian College of Nursing.

Resources

Suicide Call Back Service - Call 1300 659 467

Suicide Call Back Service - https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/

Suicide Call Back Service FB - https://www.facebook.com/suicidecallbackservice

Suicide Call Back Service Twitter - https://twitter.com/SuicideCallBack

Safety Plan - https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/feeling-suicidal/making-a-safety-plan/

RUOK - Australia - https://www.ruok.org.au/findhelp

Lifeline Australia - https://www.lifeline.org.au/

Brene Brown International Resouces Page - https://brenebrown.com/international-crisis-resources/

Mentioned in the Conversation

Making Space for You - Ralph De La Rosa - https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/cb7ca6e9-5515-4037-9e8d-12d394520589/11928713-ralph-de-la-rosa-making-space-for-you.mp3

The Heart of Compassion - https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/cb7ca6e9-5515-4037-9e8d-12d394520589/9313016-ralph-de-la-rosa-the-heart-of-compassion.mp3

The Third Space - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2rdMjnhAgM

The Forever Decision Dr Paul Quinett - https://qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever_Decision.pdf

Brett Lee is the Founder of Internet Safe Education,Brett is a former detective who took his 20+ years of working and training in cyber crime to helping parents, educators, and the general public to understand how to protect themselves and, most importantly, their children online.

Brett has worked on some of the most high-profile crimes for the likes of the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and as a detective in Australian Police. Brett's experience in cyber crime is unparalleled and has led him to be a sought-after speaker, media commentator and thought leader in Australia and internationally.

Brett believes that by empowering the community with the right knowledge at the right time, every person can be safe online. In fact, he feels so strongly about this that he's dedicated the last 12 years to developing easy to understand content that anyone can apply to their lives.

During his speaking career, Brett has spoken to over 1 million audience members. And whilst the topic can sometimes feel overwhelming, Brett's engaging approach leaves his audiences with a sense of safety and empowered to make the right choices at the right time.

https://www.internetsafeeducation.com/

https://www.podpage.com/dont-quit-on-me/

Resources

Suicide Call Back Service - Call 1300 659 467

Suicide Call Back Service - https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/

Suicide Call Back Service FB - https://www.facebook.com/suicidecallbackservice

Suicide Call Back Service Twitter - https://twitter.com/SuicideCallBack

Safety Plan - https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/feeling-suicidal/making-a-safety-plan/

RUOK - Australia - https://www.ruok.org.au/findhelp

Lifeline Australia - https://www.lifeline.org.au/

Brene Brown International Resouces Page - https://brenebrown.com/international-crisis-resources/

Mentioned in the Conversation

Making Space for You - Ralph De La Rosa - https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/cb7ca6e9-5515-4037-9e8d-12d394520589/11928713-ralph-de-la-rosa-making-space-for-you.mp3

The Heart of Compassion - https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/cb7ca6e9-5515-4037-9e8d-12d394520589/9313016-ralph-de-la-rosa-the-heart-of-compassion.mp3

Celia Roberts introduces us to deeper dimensions of Yoga, Meditation & Lifestyle Medicine. Celia runs the BioMedical Institute of Yoga & Meditation in the foothills of Brisbane, Australia, and reaches a global online audience with Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training. She invites people from all walks of life to merge science and spirituality for betterment of their health and well-being, to ultimately have deeper insight and know true compassion within.

Celia Roberts Home

https://celiaroberts.com.au/

Biomedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation

https://biyome.com.au/about/

Support Resources

Suicide Callback Service - Australia

https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/

RUOK - Australia

https://www.ruok.org.au/findhelp

Lifeline Australia

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

Brene Brown International Resouces Page

https://brenebrown.com/international-crisis-resources/

Piotr Nabielec is the author of the 4 Step Productivity concept and courses.

Piotr has a background in Engineering and Music, and loves connecting the world of logic and science with the world of emotions and intuition.

Piotr has spent over 10 years in IT, first as a software developer and then a manager, and started programming as a teenager and started his professional career at Motorola in 2005.

As a manager Piotr hired and developed his own team and found his love of training and knowledge sharing. Piotr has also led offline and online courses for thousands of students. His Udemy course has over 20.000 students and 10.000 reviews.

Piotr is also a musician.

4 Step Productivity was born during 6 years of productivity training sessions - based on research, experience, experiments and feedback from people, Piotr wanted to create a system that would help people be more productive, but make it human-centered, not goal-centered or pressure-centered. https://www.4stepproductivity.com/

Piotr Nabielec is the author of the 4 Step Productivity concept and courses.

Piotr has a background in Engineering and Music, and  loves connecting the world of logic and science with the world of emotions and intuition.

Piotr has spent over 10 years in IT, first as a software developer and then a manager, and started programming as a teenager and started his professional career at Motorola in 2005. 

As a manager Piotr hired and developed his own team and found his love of training and knowledge sharing. Piotr has also led offline and online courses for thousands of students. His Udemy course has over 20.000 students and 10.000 reviews.

Piotr is also a musician.

4 Step Productivity was born during 6 years of productivity training sessions - based on research, experience, experiments and feedback from people, Piotr wanted to create a system that would help people be more productive, but make it human-centered, not goal-centered or pressure-centered.

https://www.4stepproductivity.com/

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Festive Season Special on working through holiday times with a heavy or tired heart. Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW, (he/they) is the author of two internationally published books. He is a psychotherapist in private practice and seasoned meditation teacher known for his radically open and humorous teaching style.

His new book, Don't Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak Outs was named one of the "Best Books of 2020" by Mindful Magazine.

As a meditation teacher, Ralph's work has been featured in The New York Post, CNN, Tricycle, GQ, SELF, Women's Health, and many other publications and podcasts. He's was named one of Sonima's "Next Generation of Meditation Teachers to Watch," and regularly offers retreats at venues such as Kripalu, Spirit Rock, and Omega Institute.

Ralph began practicing meditation in 1996 and has taught meditation since 2008. He was a student of Amma's for 16 years and began studying Buddhism in 2005. Today, he identifies simply as a practitioner and teacher of human spirituality. Most recently, he completed an invite-only advanced meditation teacher training with Jack Kornfield.

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Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Her forthcoming release, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom, is set for release in April of 2023 from Flatiron Books. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed five million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. www.sharonsalzberg.com

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Daniel is a Lecturer in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and a pain scientist at the University of South Australia. His research focuses on new approaches to chronic pain that leverage new technologies and modern understandings of body-related perceptual processes. Along with Lorimer Moseley, Daniel is an author of the book 'Pain and The Nature of Perception: A New Way to Look at Pain' which uses visual illusions to describe features of perception that are relevant to understanding and treating pain. Daniel holds a Master of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy, a chronic-pain focused PhD, and serves on the education committees for the Australian Pain Society and Pain Revolution. https://www.noigroup.com/product/pain-and-perception/

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