Psych Bite!

Part 2 of this podcast series explores the difference between a mental disability and a mental illness. 

There is confusion around the meaning of mental health. This leads to increased stigma in mental health conversations and increases negative attitudes or beliefs around it. This podcast explores the difference between mental health and mental illness. 

This episode of Psych Bite wraps up the resilience podcast series by providing strategies to improve your resilience as well as empasising a worthwhile Ted Talk by Lucy Hone, a resilience expert. 

This episode of Psych Bite explores the importance of resilience, in particularly highlighting the benefits associated with building this skill. Additionally, the podcast expresses ways to increase resilience in various manners. 

This Psych Bite episode explores resilience, in particularly what is resilience and explores the difference between good and poor resilience. It's stressed that resilience is not about never feeling that you can't give up or that it's too hard because these feelings are natural to have at times. Hence, resilience is not static. 

This episode of Psych Bite explores how to get through the day when grieving. In particular functioning in grief, when you are balancing grieving and getting things done. 

This episode of Psych Bite, explores the area of grief and loss. There is no wrong way to grieve. We all experience loss at different times and severities throughout our life. Grief is dependent on the individual. We all express grief in different ways. 

Part 3 of the conflict resolution podcasts explores a 7 step conflict resolution process that we can adapt and personalise to our lives as our confidence increases in dealing with conflicts. 

Part 2 of the conflict resolution podcasts explores the different conflict styles and approaches we can take when faced with conflict. Some may be positive while others can prevent us from moving away from a situation of conflict to conflict resolution. Grant Brecht highlights the importance of adopting a constructive approach rather than a passive and aggressive stance. 

In this episode of Psych Bite! Grant Brecht, a clinical psychologist discusses conflict. He explores the reasons why we typically avoid conflict and why it makes us feel uncomfortable even when it's actually an opportunity to form solutions, to build stronger relationships, to build our resilience and to show others we are there for them. He emphasises the importance of attitude where we can change our perspective from the concept of conflict to conflict resolution.