LagomMind

Hi everyone, this week we had a conversation with Dr Roland Zahn, a consultant psychiatrist at Kings College London.

We looked at his work with

grief, the effectiveness of antidepressants and neurofeedback.

As ever if you enjoy the episode, please give us a rating and review where ever you get your podcasts!

To find out more about our guests:

Twitter: @roland_zahn

Website: https://london-depression-institute.org

Hi everyone, in this episode we spoke to Emma Slade author of the fabulous book Set Free. Emma has an amazing life story in which after she was taken hostage at gunpoint during her high flying banking career; she embarked upon a journey that resulted in her becoming an ordained Nun in Bhutan.

Emma has also set up the brilliant Opening your Heart to Bhutan charity, and we talk about all this in the episode.

As ever if you enjoy the episode, please give us a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts from!

To find out more about our guests:

Twitter: @emmabhutan

Website: https://www.openingyourhearttobhutan.com

Book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/set-free/emma-l-slade/emma-slade/9781849539609

Hi everyone, in the second episode of this series we spoke to the Athletic's Crystal Palace correspondent Matt Woosnam about his own mental health and mental health in football more generally!

If you want to find out more about Matt and his work:

Twitter- @mattwoosie

Website-https://theathletic.co.uk/team/crystal-palace/

Hi everyone and welcome to this new series of the LagomMind podcast!

In this first episode, we spoke to James Grimes from the Big Step campaign and Samantha Thomas a Professor of public health about the impact of gambling on mental health, especially its association with sports.

As ever if you enjoy the episode give us a rating and review!

To find out more about our guests:

Twitter: @doc_samantha @the_bigstep

Website: https://the-bigstep.com/home

This week we spoke to Isabel Hardman. Isabel is assistant editor of the Spectator and the best selling author of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians and the Natural Health Service.

We spoke about her own experiences of mental health and how nature, and in particular open water swimming and the outdoors helped her. We also looked at how coronavirus may change our relationship to nature and the natural world for good.

If you want to find out more about Isabel:

Twitter- @isabelhardman

Instagram- @isabel.hardman

Website- https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/isabel-hardman

This week we spoke to Annabelle Padwick. Annabelle is a gardener, author and therapist who used gardening to soothe her own mental health issues.

Our conversation looked at her journey with mental health, how gardening, nature and her allotment helped her, as well as how lockdown may change the way we view nature and wellbeing.

To find out more about Annabelle-

Twitter- @LifeatNo27

Instagram- @LifeatNo27

Website- https://lifeatno27.com

This week we spoke to Sebene Selassie. Sebene is a meditation teacher, author and speaker. She is also a three-time breast cancer survivor, and her work focuses on the areas of belonging and identity. This was inspired by her experiences of having moved to a white neighbourhood in Washington, D.C from Addis Ababa and being "a tomboy black girl who loved Monty Python and UB40. I never believed I belonged"

Our conversation looked at her journey into meditation and her work in unconscious biases amongst much more.

To find out more about Sebene:

Website- https://www.sebeneselassie.com/about

Instagram- @sebeneselassie

Twitter- @sebeneselassie

This week we spoke to the brilliant Dr Gabriel Felix. Gabriel is a Psychiatry resident at Harvard with a particular passion for black mental health and justice

Our conversation looked why he wanted to get into psychiatry and the impact of corona on black mental health in the USA.

If you enjoy the episode please give us a rating and review on iTunes.

To find out more about Gabriel:

Twitter- @thedoctorfelix

Website-https://www.drgabrielfelix.com

Hi everyone, in this weeks episode we spoke to the amazing Meg Zeenat Wamithi. Meg is a multi-award winning inspirational young leader who after her own difficulties set up My Mind Matters Too.

Our conversation looked at her own mental health problems and how she used them to start My Mind Matters Too, and a wider conversation about black mental health.

To find out more about Meg's work:

Twitter- https://twitter.com/Meg_Wamithi

Website- https://www.megzeenatwamithi.com

My Mind Matters Too- https://www.mymindmatterstoo.com

In this sixth episode of our lockdown series, we spoke to Tom Hourigan about health anxiety. Tom is a senior journalist at the BBC and you've probably heard him reading the news on BBC Radio 2, Five Live and 6 Music.

Our chat looked at how his health anxiety started and what helped him with it and how he is coping with having to be across the coronavirus news while having health anxiety.

If you want to find out more about Tom:

Twitter @tomhourigan

Website http://www.tomhourigan.co.uk