Reframe Of Mind

Has anyone ever told you to ‘just think positive’? That’s toxic positivity talking, and it invalidates another person’s emotions and their lived reality.

Especially if they live with a chronic illness.

Teisha Rose was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at age 22 and has been living with chronic illness for decades.

Podcast hosts, Louise & Andy have been discussing the concept of reframing our experiences to help get through difficult situations in recent episodes of Reframe of Mind, but no amount of reframing will cure Teisha’s MS.

So how does a change in perspective play a part when dealing with chronic illness?

And how do you look after your mental health when you live with an illness like MS?

Teisha’s diagnosis at 22 sent her life in a completely different direction than she had planned.

Initially, her life became dominated by her illness, as she was experiencing aggressive relapses and a medical roundabout of hospital stays and rehabilitation. Teisha became frustrated by how her life had changed. She feared for her future and knew something had to change.

Now, Teisha believes that even when life is interrupted by an illness, you can still enjoy now and look forward to your future with excitement.

So, how did she change from being fearful about her future to being excited about it?

Decades on, and still living with MS, Teisha is an accomplished author (Lives Interrupted), coach, and creator of Hurdle2Hope – a framework that represents the stages she has navigated through since her first life changing diagnosis – and she now teaches others how to apply that knowledge to their own hurdles to improve their mental health.

Louise & Andy recorded the initial interview with Teisha in late 2021. Since the recording, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and is currently applying the Hurdle2Hope framework that she wrote in response to her journey with Multiple Sclerosis, to her ongoing journey with breast cancer. They recorded a second interview with her March 2022, 6 weeks after her diagnosis, about her new hurdle, breast cancer, and her mental health journey in the face of that second life changing diagnosis, that is a part of her current everyday reality. Both interviews are in this episode.

Teisha Rose is an extraordinary human.

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Have you ever felt motivated to Google “am I addicted to alcohol?” or “am I Addicted to sugar?”

Addictions come in all shapes and forms, and it’s generally the things like nicotine or hard drugs we think of that need to be kicked for good health, but what about if, through peer pressure when we were younger, or through some other coping mechanism, we’ve developed a habit over time that we need to change or break?

Professor Maree Teesson AC from the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, has developed a range of resources to help with addiction and depression and had a long chat with Louise and Andy in the previous episode about mental health and substance use.

In this episode, Andy and Louise unpack some of the points Maree highlighted, sharing some of their own experiences with addiction on their mental health journey as they navigated all the regular social norms young people face.

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It’s one thing to be able to reframe a rainy day, but what if the issue is deeper than that? Could the research in drug and alcohol addictions be applied to other areas of mental health as well?

It’s a pretty common situation – Have a stressful day at work, reach for a glass of wine at night – but when does that ‘solution’ contribute to an even bigger problem, and are there techniques to treat the cause underneath it all, instead of using alcohol to self-soothe the symptoms?

Alcohol consumption is very deeply entrenched in Australian culture, and for some, exposure starts at an early age. Having a drink is normalised behaviour associated with everyday social events, but substances like alcohol, drugs and even sugar can have greater negative impacts on our lives. Stepping away from these habits takes a different, focused approach, in which one size doesn’t necessarily fit all.

In this episode of Reframe of Mind, Louise and Andy’s mental health journey includes a conversation with Professor Maree Teesson AC, Director of the Matilda Centre, to explore the nature of addiction, the research that is leading to techniques that help teenagers form a healthy relationship to alcohol consumption, and how some of these techniques might help us in combating other issues that challenge us on a mental level.

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Professor Maree Teesson AC is Director of the Matilda Centre, Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Prevention and Early Intervention in Mental Illness and Substance Use, and an NHMRC Leadership Fellow at the University of Sydney.  She is a Former National Mental Health Commissioner, an Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and is the Chair of Australia’s Mental Health Think Tank. She was announced as a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2018 Honours List, awarded a Westpac/Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence for Innovation, and awarded an Australian Museum Eureka Prize as Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers.

Maree has made a major contribution to Australia’s health and medical research effort in the field of mental health and substance use. In particular, she is known nationally and internationally for her research on the comorbidity between mental health and substance use disorders.

The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use is a multidisciplinary research centre committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people affected by co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. It was established in 2018, and aims to generate innovative and workable solutions to address substance use and mental disorders, which are currently the leading global causes of burden and disease in young people.

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When someone asks you how you are, do you tell them? Do they even want to know? 

Probably not.  

It’s just one part of life’s game of expectations and we keep playing along. 

Our worth is often derived by the people and stuff around us. And we think that we are worthless if we don’t offer other people value. 

But what would happen if we chose to let go of playing by the expectations set by someone (or something) else and stopped measuring our value by their perception of what we can offer them? 

It’s more than one person’s opinion. It’s systemic and built into the fabric of society. Our self-worth is linked to our value. And when we tie our value to money, possessions, careers, relationships etc. That becomes our compass for success and decision making. Even as kids, we were taught, and then teach our own, that we need to make choices that will get us a good career and income and set us up for the future. And we learn, and continue, the pattern of making decisions to please others while ignoring our emotions and needs. 

But we can break that pattern. We can make choices in accordance with our own values. 

In this episode of Reframe of Mind, Louise and Andy share their personal experiences with letting go of other people’s expectations and learning to make decisions in accordance with their own personal values; and discuss the concept of reframing our thoughts to better support our self-worth.  

They also look at the ‘human durability’ model with more from Derrick McManus, founder of the Australian Centre for Human Durability, speak to motivational speaker Chris Helder, about his ‘Useful Belief’ philosophy, and how he was able to apply the technique to reframing his own loss of gigs at the start of the pandemic; and to mindfulness coach and ‘Still Effect’ author Annie Harvey to get her practical tips on how to reframe our thoughts around situations that are out of our practical control. 

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We’ve all used the “someone’s always got it worse off” bandaid of toxic positivity when something bad happens, and the buzz of recent times is around being resilient, but what if that paper cut was the last in a long chain of bad experiences that completely emptied our emotional bucket?

Derrick McManus had a really bad day at work once. He was shot 14 times in 5 seconds and almost died. His recovery and re-entry to the same team is only a part of Derrick’s story, which is one of durability and action well past the platitudes of “she’ll be right”.

In this episode, Derrick shares his story and experiences to shift our perspective on the value of resilience.

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We’ve all either been through sustained high stress in the workplace or known someone who has, and when we’re encouraged to bring “all of ourselves to work” it usually contains an unspoken parenthesis with the words “except that bit”. So what happens when the stress becomes so unmanageable that we start to burn out?

How accountable are workplaces for providing an environment that promotes good mental health, and where is the a boundary between workplace stressors and those that can too easily spill in from everyday life?

In this episode Louise and Andy explore their own experiences with stress and burnout in the workplace with some food for thought from their guests Sally Goldner AM, Suzanne Mercier and Hugh Kearns while introducing new guests Jane Madden, Board Director at Black Dog Institute and Workplace Pattern Interruptor, Annie Harvey.

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Nobody wants to be known as the “token diversity hire”, and rightly so.

Diversity is about more than just filling a quota. It helps marginalised people be seen and add their voice to everyone else’s. In this episode we talk about the importance of embracing diversity in the workplace, as well as in the broader context of life.

Who better to have a chat about this with than trans re-lator, speaker, educator and coach, Sally Goldner, AM?

We ponder diversity and inclusion, and Louise talks openly about something important to her for the very first time.

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So you’ve got that promotion. Congratulations! How long is it before that knot in your stomach starts to tighten, the lump in your throat starts to grow and you start to feel like you’re out of your depth?

Imposter syndrome isn’t just a workplace phenomenon. There are all kinds of ways we can hold ourselves back from completing things. Maybe you’re a self proclaimed perfectionist, or gold-standard procrastinator. These traits are all too common companions in the imposter cycle, which we explored with Mr Hugh Kearns, lecturer and researcher in the area of high performance at Flinders University.

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It strikes more people than you know, and it’s been behind the demise of many a promising career.

Imposter Syndrome was first recognised identified in 1978 by Dr. Pauline R. Clance and Dr. Suzanne A. Imesin.in their article “The Impostor Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention”

It’ s that irrational fear of failure, that little voice inside your head that tells you you’re a fraud and you’re going to get found out any minute now.

There are some great resources available to help combat this feeling now, and we were privileged to speak to one Australian Expert in the fiend, Suzanne Mercier, founder of Purpose to Profit about her own personal experience with Imposter Syndrome, and how she is now helping others to combat it.

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Reframe Of Mind is an Australian podcast series where we explore mental health topics with commentary from scientific and psychological researchers and practitioners, with people whose lived experience supports the research, and applying their learnings to our own lived experience.

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We might be our own worst inner critic, so how many of our beliefs are based on fact?

As Andy & Louise start a business at ‘middle age’, in a pandemic, from separate cities, communicating remotely, with bootstrapped start-up funds, no plan B or physical product to sell, it’s no surprise doubt crept in.

Can we really expect to succeed later in life? Would people want to listen to us working on our own mental health, sharing our insights? Could we find a common thread in diverse voices?

How about subverting the patriarchy, making content for people outside of mainstream targets? We had big ideas and big self-doubt to challenge.

In this episode of Reframe of Mind, Louise & Andy chat to experts on their business journey. But make no mistake, this ISN’T an episode about business, but challenging and overcoming the limiting beliefs that hold us back from giving our dreams a go.

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Alex Maritz, from La Trobe University shares the truth about senior-preneurs and late transitions to self-employment and busts the belief that ‘old dogs can’t learn new tricks’.

And Female Economy expert Jacinta Carboon, who has been instrumental in the fight for gender equality in corporate Australia for decades, tells us just how important and undervalued the female economy is.

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Reframe Of Mind is an Australian podcast series where we explore mental health topics with commentary from scientific and psychological researchers and practitioners, with people whose lived experience supports the research, and applying their learnings to our own lived experience.

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Our mission is to help people connect through inclusive content that empowers and inspires.

We also work with businesses, organisations and creators to produce branded podcasts that align with your mission.

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