Explore Your Core

In this episode I am joined with David Bott, educational speaker, best-selling author and associate director of the positive psychology institution. We talk about the importance of placing wellbeing at the forefront of schools, the impacts that has had and some of the difficulties of trying to measure wellbeing. We talk about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for learning and the importance of feeling safe, seen and connected.

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In this episode I am joined by psychologist and yoga instructor Dr Kaitlin to talk about emotions. Dr Kaitlin’s journey began studying eastern philosophy where her lecturer then introduced her to yoga and through that found saw the benefits on the mind and started studying psychology. Together we talk about the evolutionary benefit of emotions and the harm in ‘positive vibes only’ culture.
We talk about the term alexithymia - which is the difference in neural wiring and awareness and also some of the consequences for repressing emotions. As well, we talk about the importance if regular check ins to help increase emotional awareness and listening to your body.

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In this episode I am joined by Elle Nguyen, an assistant researcher on sleep and mental health and suicide prevention. We talk about the impact sleep has on mental health as well as the ripple effect lack of sleep can have and ways to improve sleep hygiene. We also talk about lockdown and how difficult for those who were already struggling but also how those lockdowns allowed people to revaluate what’s important to them. Elle talks about her experience working in the field and what she’s noticed and that’s people don’t always speak up when they are struggling so take the time to ask and create the space for them to voice it. Be there to listen, sometimes that’s all they need, someone to hear them.

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In this episode I am joined by Amarah Radford from Made By Mars where we talk about self love. We look at the importance of stating boundaries for strengthening your sense of self, making sure the home inside your head is a good place to be and the benefits of being kind to yourself. We discuss habits and how turning self-love practices no matter how small into habits have an accumulative effect that becomes easier and less effortful with time. As well, we talk about the having hobbies for fun and keeping them separate to work as we don’t need to monetise everything we do

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In this episode I’m joined by cognitive neuroscientist, educator and author Dr Jared Horvath. We talk about the mind and brain, how they are different and the process of emergence. We discuss how stories influence how we perceive the world and how openness to new experiences and being present can change our stories which then changes how we perceive the world. We talk about how these changes occur both in our environment and on a molecular level and why we often hesitate towards change.

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I am joined with Psychologist Matthew Briglia where we discuss some of the challenges and rewards with being a psychologist as well as how compassion may be a better approach to helping people rather than empathy. We also talk about how capable the mind is to endure pain from both trauma and things like extreme sports. We touch on more mainstream psychology and it’s benefits and conclude no matter what the coping mechanism is- whether there’s no evidence, looks odd or isn’t typical if it works for you it works for you and there shouldn’t be any fear of judgement.

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In this episode I am joined by psychology student and co-founder of the 5:30 Club, Vani. She talks about her acting career and how a sudden injury forced her to stop and reasses her life. This time created the space for her to get into reading, yoga and meditation. After going to India and doing workshops she felt a false sense of happiness that isn’t obtainable outside of that and realised you’ve got to okay with the boring, that’s there’s beauty in the mundane.

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In this episode I am joined with Monica the founder of The Health Classes You Missed. We speak about some of the challenges people are facing with mental, physical and sexual health that isn’t spoken about due to stigma, fear or judgement or is just missing in the education system. We talk about her own journey tackling some of these challenges both her own mental health and how she is closing gaps in the education system. Despite many of these challenges being at an educational or social level we talk about some changes that can be made at an individual level which starts with open communication and a willingness to listen.

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To start off season 2 I speak about how Explore Your Core came to be and one of the most valuable lessons exploring my own core- finding balance. I talk about my experience, challenges and realisations trying to find balance with exercise, food, work and life as well as the importance of balance to avoid burnouts.

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Sam badrock is a local artist from Bright who left an abusive relationship and returned to art for expression. After the birth of her daughter she decided to leave nursing and found being an artist allowed her to be more flexible. We talk about her experience as a nurse as well as the process of her becoming an artist. We also talk about the physical benefits of doing art including the lowering of cortisol and blood pressure, and how it helped her in times of dealing with domestic violence.
We talk about flow state and the sense of space it creates, how to find it and barriers that stop you from finding that flow state.

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