Mel Bampton Presents...How Human

Dr Lauren Tober is a psychologist, a Senior Yoga Teacher and the creator of the Mental Health Aware Yoga Teacher Training. What I love about Lauren’s work is how she integrates evidence based data with that that is beyond the measure of science – the subtlties of the deeper self that yoga interacts with – in a clinical setting. She finds a way to expand beyond the confines of modern psychology through the breadth of yogic knowledge, utilising a vast palette of tools to access the needs of the individual human mind.
 
 In this conversation we chat about what patterns are from a psychology perspective and how that compares with how yoga looks at patterns aka samskaras, we get into the nitty gritty of one of the peskiest narratives known to humankind – the good old inner dialogue of ‘I’m not good enough’ and you'll hear a secret confession of my own about what I thought of my fans back in the triple j days.

If you want to explore more of Dr Lauren Tober's life-affirming offerings, head to www.laurentober.com
 

 

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

In this episode, we’re jumping straight into the nitty gritty of an illicit drug with the worst publicity, with a former high level sportsperson who was well on his way to an incredible career as a pro basketballer before meth amphetamines took him over and diminished all other aspects of his world. 

Jack Nagle is the founder of Real Drug Talk, he’s a recovery advocate and a real voice in the conversation of addiction which has been fraught over the years with approaches that have caused more harm than good, more shame than freedom and stigma that's still stuck to this very day.
 
Jack is a deadset legend, a profoundly authentic and necessary voice in this space and a man who took himself to the furthest edges of meth use, only just living to tell the tale.

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

This episode is very different. Not looking so much at the patterns that we're stuck in but instead how big events can change us at our deepest levels.

This is a story of one man being taken to his depths through intense loss, of a man who is still very much learning how to swim in the waters of a grief that most days he cannot see the edges of. Yet somehow, with the potential of the human mind, and the enormity of the human spirit, he is doing it. Through the love of his daughter Poppy, the voice of his partner Sara, the vivaciousness of Lil and the fortitude of his own heart, he is doing it.

Through the immense grace of Mark Bayley, this episode takes us into the often hidden world of big grief - losing a loved one type grief or loved ones as is the case for Mark - and in doing so highlights the importance of such conversations, of facing the reality that in being human, grief is inescapable.

How can we learn to grieve better?
How can we prepare ourselves for inescapable grief?
How can we be more deeply present for others in times of vast despair?

And if you haven't yet met Mark's phenomenal partner Sara Tindley through her episode in season 1, perhaps take a listen to that first here.

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

What is the correlation between alcohol patterns and extreme sports?
What part does self-identity play in trying to kick a harmful booze habit?
And when you do go sober and you’re faced with the clarity of your own historical dickhead behaviour, how do you balance the books and feel not just accepting of who you were but good about yourself going forward?

In this episode, we are focusing on one of the most culturally accepted and statistically harmful substances of all time – alcohol. A known grade 1 carcinogen, the number one aggravating factor in violent assaults and partner homicide, socially accepted and legal.

Why does it get it’s hooks so deep in so many of us and why is it so hard to extract from our lives, long after it’s begun to cause us – and those around us – harm?

Jenny Valentish, is creator and host of the podcast Spirit Levels and author of the fiction Cherry Bomb, her brilliant memoir Woman Of Substances and her guidebook to understanding extreme recreational choices, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else.

Find Jenny at https://jennyvalentish.com/ and listen to Spirit Levels here.

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Sometimes patterns present in identifiable habits - small and large. Sometimes patterns are written into the very fabric of our being; they have become a part of the way we view the world without us even realising we are looking through a filter.

In this episode we are looking at what has become known as colonised conditioning. A term coined by Native Americans to describe the way European systems function, often in direct contrast to natural systems, how this has impacted our ways of thinking about place and how this colonised way collided with existing Indigenous systems to the great detriment of not just Indigenous people but to everyone, through the disconnection with and destruction of the natural world.

But what does that really look like in the context of everyday life? What does it feel like in our bodies, how is it permeating our understanding of everything and how can the human mind be decolonised?

Ella Noah-Bancroft is an extraordinary Bundjalung writer, speaker, creator, advocate and activist for living more harmoniously with the natural world, she is a voice for returning to the old ways in a modern context and remembering how to collaborate instead of decimate.

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Welcome to the DISSOLVING PATTERNS series of Lissie Turner Presents... where Lissie takes you deep into the wiring of the human mind, through the unhealthy, unhelpful and harmful patterns that make us suffer. Through common negative patterns around food, alcohol, social media, sex, gaming, money, drugs, politics, religion and more, as well as through the deepest most pervasive patterns around love, ego, desire, disdain and fear, Lissie will take you on a journey through the most subversive threads of the human neural tapestry to find out not only how you tick but more importantly, who you are and how to human better.

Welcome to episode 1.

Who first told you about sex? What restrictions and reservations do you have about yourself as a sexual creature? Are there certain things that are taboo for you? Why?

How have you come to believe what you believe about the very loaded subject of sex?

From that first birds and the bees conversation (if you even had one), to your friendship group, to religion, culture, pop culture and societal expectations, there are few fundamental necessities for life as fraught with as many opinions, rules and patterns as SEX.

In this episode, Lissie catches up with Somatic Counsellor, Sexologist and Sex Educator, Jo Brown from Jo Brown Mojo, to talk about all things doing it and doing it 'right'.

If you'd like to get in touch with Jo, you can find her on instagram at @jobrownmojo 

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Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Matt O’Brien is a unicorn: a warm loving friendship facilitating creature of magical proportions, with a billowing mane and an equally impressive moustache.

In pubs, festivals and venues all around the country, Matt creates ways for people to connect. Deeply. Through fun and clever initiatives he breaks down awkward social barriers and enables complete strangers to become best friends, instantly.

Matt is the Brand Marketing Manager at Heaps Normal but it is in his role as the Founder of a sublimely powerful and utterly adorable social enterprise called Tell Your Friends You Love Them where he is cracking people open in the best of ways. 

So how does a young man from the country affect the very fabric of our social conditioning? And what ignited this fire to support all of us to be with people in a deeper and more genuine way? 

These are curiosities I’ve been musing over since I went to an amazing little festival called Boogie in Tallorook Victoria, earlier this year.

Who is this beautiful man behind the love? Let’s find out together.

If you would like to explore more of the Glory That Is Matto, check him out in all of these glorious places:

Matto @rippingshredness_swb

TYFYLT: @tellyourfriendsyoulovethem
https://www.tellyourfriends.love/

Heaps Normal: @heapsnormal
www.heapsnormal.com

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Okay. This episode is very different. It is both very personal but also prolific. I would really, really like you to tune into this one...

In 2018 an extraordinary little foundation that I had been in awe of at a very close level for nearly a decade – for their small all-female team of brilliant scientists, their incredible support of innovation, capacity to fundraise and of course, the integrity and commitment they had to environment – received a whopping $443 000 000 from the federal government. What should have been an incredible moment for the reef, became an all out brawl.  There was the suspicion that came from the lack of tender process, the fact that the money was coming from the Liberal Govt not known for it’s support of environment and of course the uproar from other larger organisations in the marine space that demanded to know why this little not for profit was getting money they of course wanted. 

At the heart of it was this passionate team who had up until that moment simply been in their lane doing everything they could to protect the reef, right up until the moment they received the email that told them the news. On that team, was my number one mentor, one of my dearest and absolute favourite humans in the world: the Executive Director of Projects & Partnerships, Theresa Fyffe. 
 
If you've known me personally in the last 25 years,  you’ll have heard me speak about her with immense admiration for her integrity, sickening work ethic and mind-boggling commitment to her crusade of making the world a better place. If you knew me pre the last 25 years, you’ll know we used to smack the shit out of each other.
 
This is an interview with a personal twist BUT Theresa is one of the most tenacious and curious intellects I’ve ever known, her story travels from the western suburbs of Brisbane to falling pregnant at 16, becoming one of the youngest heads of a university department in QLD history, to East Central Africa, Saudia Arabia, to addressing the UN in front of thousands to take the plight and protection of the Great Barrier Reef worldwide

Get your snorkel on and take a deep breath, you’re going to need it, as we dive into the story of one little western suburbs kid who could. 

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Why has Lissie chosen to chat with this very rugged looking bloke? Well hopefully by now you’ll trust me enough to know that if they’re a guest on this pod, there’s something a little bit rich and special lurking not far beneath the outer crust. Luke Andrews or Blue as his red hair has demanded he be called in this country, is like that in so many ways. At his heart a very soft, thoughtful and kindness driven human, who puts being in service at his centre but on the surface, that may look a little different. 

As a former Special Forces soldier, who’s entire adult life, until recently, has been defined by that very strong identity, Blue on the surface is all braun, muscle and short back and sides but underneath lurks a funny, light-hearted and deeply caring human.

Blue is one of the Founding Directors of the Krait Foundation, helping retired Special Forces Soldiers find their feet in their new future and an all-round legend.

If you're wanting your spirits lifted about humans, especially big strong ones who are geared for kindness, settle in and enjoy the excellent company of Blue, and if you want to find out more - check out https://tkf.org.au/

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Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety