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Inner Sanctuary is a short visual mindfulness practise that supports you in reconnecting with a sense of grounded-ness, calmness and  ease.  This practise accompanies Mindarma's Mindful March Series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce. 

 Mindful Body Scan (welcoming sensation) accompanies week two of Mindarma's Mindful March Webinar Series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce.  Mindful Body Scan can help to release residual tension and support the body to anchor into a deeper state of relaxation and  restoration. 

A shorter (6 mins) version of the practise is available via the Mindarma app and online here 

 This short version of Mindful Body Scan (welcoming sensation) accompanies week two of Mindarma's Mindful March Webinar Series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce.  Mindful Body Scan can help us release residual physical tension. The practise supports us in reconnecting with an inner inner state of calmness, clarity and grounded-ness.  

This short practise accompanies week two of Mindarma's Mindful March Webinar Series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce.  A Soothing Pause aims to support your mind and body return to a state of grounded, balanced awareness.

You can also watch the practise here

This short practise accompanies week one of Mindarma's Mindful March Webinar Series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce. 

This short practise accompanies week one of Mindarma's Mindful March Webinar Series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce. 

Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is James Maskey, who works at Fortem Australia, a not-for-profit wellbeing support organisation for first responders and their families.

James was 24 when he was diagnosed with PTSD in late 2013. James was a highly regarded young police officer stationed in the Logan district between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. In his own words, James was old enough to know his PTSD was from cumulative trauma, young enough to have no idea what it meant to live with the symptoms. 

Rather than seek support from the Queensland police force, James was advised to keep his mental illness a secret. He even became a plain clothes investigator with the Logan District Child Protection and Investigation Unit.

Until it became too much.

In this podcast with host Dean Yates, James talks about being diagnosed with PTSD so early in his career, what he’s learnt about his injury and how he’s found new meaning in life.

In 2018, Beyond Blue released a major report that showed one in three first responders in Australia experienced high or very high psychological distress. It showed 10 percent of all first responders probably had PTSD. That number jumped to 25 percent for former police and emergency services personnel. The report also found that poor workplace practices and culture were as damaging to first responders as occupational trauma.

James Maskey is the human face behind that alarming data. James was also formerly the National Engagement Manager of Beyond Blue’s Police and Emergency Services Program.

In his work with Fortem, James is deeply committed to driving cultural change, high-value policy reform, and additional government support to support positive mental health and wellbeing in the first responder sector.

Additionally, James is an advocate for individual first responders and works tirelessly to increase help-seeking behaviours, remove barriers to accessing supports such as
entrenched stigma, and ultimately create mentally healthy workplaces within the first
responder sector.

We hope you enjoy this important and candid conversation with the incredibly inspiring  James Maskey.

You can learn more about James' work here. 

You can discover more about  Fortem Australia via the links below. 

https://fortemaustralia.org.au/

https://twitter.com/fortemaustralia

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortemaustralia

https://www.facebook.com/FortemAustralia

https://www.instagram.com/fortemaustralia/

This self-compassion meditation accompanies week 4 of Mindarma's Self-Care September webinar series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce. 

The meditation accompanies week 3 of Mindarma's Self-Care September webinar series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce. 

This meditation accompanies week 2 of Mindarma's Self-Care September webinar series with Dr Sadhbh Joyce.