This is the fourth episode in a series of shorts produced by Films4Change around a young girl called Ness who learns to identify and manage her feelings through her conversations with various Australian animals.

Today Ness talks to wombat, beautifully voiced and characterised by actor Leofric Kingsford-Smith, about her feelings around having to clean her room and her mum calling her cranky and lazy.

Mel and I again discuss the importance of acknowledging and affirming a child's feelings as well as talking around how adults labelling and name-calling children (i.e cranky/lazy etc) can be counter-productive as well as being genuinely hurtful. 

This scene ends in such a lovely way too - with Ness giving wombat her own advice about how to clean his burrow :) Tasks can be so much easier when we tackle them with joyfulness rather than resentment !

I hope you enjoy this podcast; thank you all so much for listening. If you'd like to contact me you can find me at [email protected]. - I'd love to hear from you. And if you have a moment please do rate and review

The entire Ness series is available online free of charge via the Films4Change Youtube channel at

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

This is the third episode in a series of shorts produced by Films4Change around a young girl called Ness who learns to identify and manage her feelings through her conversations with various Australian animals.

Today Ness talks to Butterfly about her anxious feelings around having a new baby brother.

Mel- CEO of Films4Change- and I go on to discuss about the importance of hearing and validating feelings in children and how valuable it can be to honestly share what is going on for us as adults in an age-appropriate manner.

As always, I do hope you enjoy this podcast; thank you all so much for listening. If you'd like to contact me you can find me at [email protected]. - I'd love to hear from you.

The entire Ness series is available online free of charge via the Films4Change Youtube channel at

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

The second in a series of shorts produced by Films4Change which involve a young girl called Ness is now available.  Today Ness talks to Joey about her sadness at having to leave her Mum for a short while.  Joey is able to talk to Ness about the cosiness he feels in his Mother’s pouch, however understands he will need to leave the pouch as he gets bigger, knowing his Mum is still there for him.. Mel- CEO of Films4Change- and I discuss building resilience in children and what parents can do to support, acknowledge, validate and reassure their child when sharing any feelings.

The entire Ness series is available online free of charge via the Films4Change Youtube channel at

As always, I do hope you enjoy this podcast; thanks so much for listening. If you'd like to contact me you can find me at [email protected]. - I'd love to hear from you.

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

In today's episode we listen to the first in a series of shorts produced by Films4Change which involve a young girl called Ness. Ness learns to express and manage a variety of different feelings with the help of her interactions with different Australian native animals. Today, Ness is Angry and discusses how she feels with a Tasmanaian Devil. 

Anger in children can be confronting and triggering for us as adults - Mel and I discuss ways in which we can appropriately and respectfully hear, validate and manage these strong feelings in children.

The entire Ness series is available online free of charge via the Films4Change Youtube channel at

As always, I do hope you enjoy this podcast; thanks so much for listening. If you'd like to contact me you can find me at [email protected]. - I'd love to hear from you.

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

Today I have a lovely discussion with Melinda Arnold, CEO Films4Change, about the beautiful Ness series of 7 online episodes dealing with building resilience in children from a young age. Ness is a young girl who, in each episode,  interacts with Australian animals and shares about her feelings. Each animal, beautifully drawn by Belinda Lindhardt of Creative Hardt , is able to assist Ness in finding another way to deal with some of her strong emotions. 

The entire series is available on the Films4Change Youtube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpC1QlguAvUvya4O9TpZpfRqyRfmmGrvd

Over the coming weeks we'll be discussing each episode and looking at ways in which those strong feelings in young children can be respectfully acknowledged and managed.

As always, I do hope you enjoy this podcast; thanks so much for listening and you can contact me at [email protected].

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

In my podcast released today, it is my pleasure to introduce to you a man who I completed my relationship counselling training with over 20 years ago.  His name is John Dimond of John Dimond Counselling.  John talks about the life changing experience he encountered during our training, the benefits of undertaking Gestalt body work therapy as well as learning techniques that allow for a deeper respect, understanding and connection to all clients during the course.  John also talked about a reframe he uses in the counselling process which is ‘a breakthrough which looks like a breakdown’ where being able to trust in the process is explored in the counselling relationship.  Being brave to be vulnerable and permission to allow change is discussed, along with the privilege it is to be on a client’s journey.

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

Continuing my conversation with Melinda Arnold, CEO of Films4Change and director at Studio Kreadiv ; this is the third and final part of our 3 part series and centres around ‘It’s Just a Choice’, the series which Mel and the Films4Change team developed and which demonstrates how it becomes a choice in all relationships to be abusive as well as modelling ways to be able to change those behaviours. Being role models for our children is also discussed and we look forward to another chat in the future about the series Ness which I worked on with Mel and the team.

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

This episode is Part 2 of a three part discussion with Melinda Arnold from Films4Change, which explores how the rewarding benefits of volunteering can steer a person into finding ways to readjust and begin to know who they truly are.

We also explore the healing benefits which came up for Melinda as a result of producing the ‘It’s Just a Choice’series. This was Films4Change's first series (it is freely available on line at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpC1QlguAvUs8iSQLpTH325i4K_pGA_4t ) and was created by Melinda, Jerry and their friend Val. 'It's Just a Choice' was taken largely from Mel and Jerry's lived experience of domestic and family violence and offers alternative, more constructive and non-violent choices for men who choose to use violent and controlling behaviour in their relationships.

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

In this episode (part 1 of 3) I begin a conversation with Melinda, CEO of Films4Change Inc, around her journey. We discuss relationships, family and domestic violence, personal change and growth. This was such a great conversation and we went way over time so have divided the whole discourse into 3 parts for ease of listening. each part will be published as usual on Monday mornings 0830 AEST. Thanks so much for listening.

Explores the difficulties that can emerge when any thought of personal change is considered, acknowledging how the body remembers and holds onto old patterning and ways of thinking. How changing old habits can benefit relationships is explored along with bodily adjustment to a new way of being.

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.