On this weeks episode of the podcast Talia and Ebony are joined in the studio by the lovely Mary-Anne Quezel.

Together they discuss her experience with childhood sexual and physical abuse as well as the challenges and hardship she endured during her younger years.

Mary-Anne candidly walks us through her horrific experience of a forced abortion at the tender age of 16 and so openly shares her memories of this time. She also discusses the significant impact this experience had on her physically, psychologically and emotionally in her adult years.

Todays episode doesn’t only highlight the impacts and effects of complex childhood trauma on the human mind, body, and soul. It also emphasises human resilience as she takes us through how she turned her pain into her purpose.

Mary-Anne is now a holistic therapist, teacher and author, who focuses on teaching individuals to heal through their trauma and challenges by regulating their nervous system.

We are incredibly grateful to be sharing her story.

Mary-Anne IG: @loveselfmastery

Mary-Anne: https://linktr.ee/loveselfmastery?fbclid=PAAaZmPM9nxd4E2IBq6O1hDwsTKe71UYsbkAwZQZXMSF3dJSNYSTCiJNPYuvM_aem_AZYbjljiLj4ewC5CxKvTa8pyy8apB6U6_bkzS8uGOAbD985jmayygeZQWMN2kJv3YXc

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This week Talia and Ebony have an incredible conversation with the beautiful Courtney Welsh.

Courtney shares her experience with birth trauma and neonatal resuscitation, as well as navigating severe postpartum depression and anxiety.

We walk through some of the darkest times of Courtneys life and her journey to reclaiming herself and her happiness again. We also explore her experience navigating parenting a child who is neurodivergent.

Courtney discusses the stigmas around neurodiversity, as well as the importance of providing healthy boundaries and structure to help with safety and balance, when parenting a neuro divergent child.

This episode is a must listen for all parents out there, as it doesn’t only touch on specific challenges, it also highlights the broad reality of parenting and the importance of adapting and relinquishing control of the inevitable.

We hope you enjoy. Do you have a question? Email us at [email protected]

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Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

https://www.beyondblue.org.au

https://butterfly.org.au

We had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with such a remarkable human being, a woman who has been through some of the most challenging things that life could possibly throw at you. However, she still chooses to view her reality from a perspective of love, gratitude, and peace.

Today’s guest, Helena grew up in Lebanon during the Civil War and she candidly shares her memories and experiences of what it was like to live in a war-torn country.

Throughout her journey, she has had many challenges, including the loss of her brother, sexual abuse, domestic violence and the difficulties of growing up with strong cultural and religious views.

Helena‘s ability to continuously step out of the fears of her experience, and into her power is phenomenal and the epitome of human resilience.

We are incredibly grateful to be sharing her story.

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Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

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On this weeks episode of the podcast Talia and Ebony sit down with the wonderful Cam McKinnon to discuss his first hand experience with losing a loved one to suicide.

During early 2020 when Australia was in the very beginning stages of Covid restrictions Cam received devastating news that altered his reality forever.

Cam candidly discusses everything from the moment he found out his brother was missing, to the challenges of navigating the loss of a loved one to suicide. Despite the devastating loss of Cam‘s brother Scott, Cam has courageously chosen to support himself and others with their mental health journeys, in hopes of bringing more awareness to suicide and suicide prevention.

Every day in Australia 9 people lose their lives to suicide and 7 out of the 9 are male. Statistics show that males can often struggle with regulating their mental health due to societies conditioning around males bottling up their emotions and not being able to express themselves.

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Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

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We are joined by the incredible Elise. At the tender age of 15, Elise was diagnosed with endometriosis and during this episode she takes us through the chronic pain of severe endometriosis as well as PCOS.

Over the past 15 years, Elise has had over 30 surgeries, as well as been prescribed a plethora of opioids, narcotics, and even tried a form of chemotherapy, to assist in the management of the chronic pain she faces day in and day out.

Elise takes us through some of her most challenging times dealing with chronic pain, the impacts chronic pain has on your mental health and relationships. She also candidly speaks about the preparation for a hysterectomy at only 28 years old.

The rainbow at the end of this tunnel however, is the incredible miracle that was the pregnancy and birth of Elise’s first daughter Siana. Elise was incredibly vulnerable whilst sharing her journey and hopes to encourage more conversations around fatality and reproductive health.

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Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

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https://butterfly.org.au

Talia and Ebony are joined by a beautiful guest who goes by the name Bambi.

Bambi is a full service sex worker who so graciously gave her time to speak with us about the sex industry and her job as a sex worker. We touch on everything from what a regular shift looks like to how to take care of your mental health whilst in the sex industry. We also chat about the stigmas attached to sex work and the decriminalisation of sex work.

This episode is packed full of education and humour, aiming to shed light on the importance of removing stigmas from our society and treating people with love and compassion, regardless of their job title. We are very grateful to have had this chat as it is often a taboo and vulnerable topic.

We hope you enjoy.

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Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

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Carolyn’s Story on parenting children in active addiction and losing a child to an overdose

We are absolutely honoured to have the beautiful Carolyn sharing her incredibly complex and heart wrenching journey, so vulnerably.

Carolyn is a mother of four beautiful children and she courageously takes us through her experience of parenting two children with substance use disorder. She walks us through the challenges, fear, and complexities that is supporting loved ones with addiction.

In December 2021, Carolyn lost her oldest son Tom to an overdose. She talks about her experience with grief and the challenges she has experienced with her own mental health.

Carolyn is the absolute epitome of resilience and this episode is one you will most definitely want to listen to.

This episode is in loving memory of Thomas Michael Farrall.

Todays guest: @carolynbiram

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Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

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It’s a solo episode with Talia! She will be discussing the tools that she has in her toolkit that really help her with her mental health, self-care and well-being.

Tools can help you build resilience, understand yourself emotionally and enable you to self-sooth and regulate your emotions, when you’re feeling heightened.

Talia talks about how you can use these tools and how they benefited her and will hopefully benefit you!

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Tool kit Resources:

https://www.create-health.com.au/blog/menstrual-cycle-understanding-and-celebrating-you-117s105

https://youtube.com/@tapwithbrad

https://youtube.com/@GreatMeditation

Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

https://www.beyondblue.org.au

https://butterfly.org.au

This week, Talia and Ebony are joined by the beautiful Bella Ibrahim, to talk all things, body shaming, negative self talk, projections and navigating a breast reduction.

This is a must listen for anyone dealing with challenges around body image and damaging self talk.

We dive deep into Bella’s experience during childhood with bullying and body shaming and she walks us through what was modelled to her at home in terms of body image and the projections she faced during her high school years and how these challenging encounters added to a destructive mindset and low self-esteem.

This episode aims to educate, inform, and empower.

Todays guest: @hellzfknbellz

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Resources:

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In this weeks episode, Ebony takes you through a guided meditation for relaxation and decompressing from stress.

If you are looking for a relaxing and soothing guided meditation for your mid week, then look no further we have you. Take your time to relax, unwind and enjoy.

Do you have any questions or want us to touch on a certain subject?

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Resources:

https://www.1800respect.org.au

https://www.beyondblue.org.au

https://butterfly.org.au