Roll With The Punches

Imagine this for a moment.  You're a child.  After years of watching your own mothers mental, physical and emotional function decline, you're told that her illness is actually a rare degenerative genetic condition.  You're told that the chances are 50/50 chance you too carry that gene.  And if you do inherit the gene you'll experience progressive degeneration of the nerve cells in your brain, affecting your movement, cognitive functions and emotions as early as your thirties.  And if you have children, they too will have a 50/50 chance of inheritance.
Meet Sally Wilson.  She is exceptional. She is 30. She is a wife. She is a mother. Sally carries the Huntington's Disease Gene.
Most conversations I have on this podcast shift my perspective in some way.  This conversation with Sally sure took things to the next level for me.  
What a resilient, incredible and well rounded human who has taken massive things in her stride and in my opinion, still does life better than most.

HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE VICTORIA
Website:  www.huntingtonsvic.org.au
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I personally think stepping onto a stage as a comedian is one of the bravest things someone can do.  I also personally think when people choose to do such brave things, they've been conditioned for bravery.  Rachel Berger shares how she stepped on that stage.. and failed.  She failed and failed again, for a year.  But Rachel knew she had something to say, and that something was greater than any failure.

Rachel is one of Australia’s favourite stand-up comedians and a woman of remarkably diversified talents. Born in Israel to Polish Jewish parents who immigrated to Melbourne at the age of five, Rachel describes herself as the epitome of intergenerational trauma.  Her story is truly one of triumph and success.  A story that shines a light on the power of laughter to overcome the most adverse circumstances.

I adored this conversation with this incredibly deep thinking and insightful funny human.

Enjoy!

RACHEL BERGER

Website:  www.rachelberger.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/rachelbergercomedian

TIFFANEE COOK

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Ryan Mains is a veteran of the Iraq war and a longtime Woodstock firefighter and paramedic.  He has been diagnosed with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder and today Ryan shares with me his experience around how his symptoms built slowly over years, ultimately becoming so pronounced that he had to leave the job that he loved.  
I'm always interested in what attracts individuals into service careers like the army and frontline work and I was particularly interested to hear Ryans story.  It's fair to say he has seen and lived experiences that should only be imagined for the sake of fiction movies, rather than reality.  We talk about his expectations vs his experience and how the effects of being exposed to such trauma can chip away at ones mental health.
Today Ryan steps up as a voice for spreading awareness and helping people recognise and support PTSD sufferers and their families.  He has thrown on his runners for 'Run For Our Lives' to do just this and let's just say he's taken more than a couple of steps in the right direction.
RYAN MAINS 
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Ahhhh the brain. I am just obsessed with how it works, it's relationship to our mind and how when we control our mind we can physiologically change our brain, which subsequently changes how our mind works.  How fascinating!

Dawson Church is a health writer and researcher who has edited or authored a number of books in the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality.  The Genie in Your Genes, reviews the research linking consciousness, emotion, and gene expression.  Mind to Matter examines the science of peak mental states and Bliss Brain, which we discuss is more depth in this episode demonstrates how “flow” states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness.  

Dawson also shares his terrifying yet transformative experience when bushfire ripped through his home and left he and his wife with little more than the clothes on their backs.  So join us as we learn how we can reign in those relevant neurotransmitters related to states of ecstasy and develop our own 'bliss brain'.

DAWSON CHURCH

www.dawsonchurch.com

TIFFANEE COOK

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Haisley O'Leary has been a firefighter for 25 years, starting as a military fire fighter before becoming a career firey and now a station officer (with a very staunch moustache to seal the deal).  He's a gorgeous human with a gorgeous story to share and you've heard a lot from his other half Lisa Tamati on this show, so I know you're going to love diving deeper into their epic lives.
Haisley shares the tragic experience of being blessed with his son Joseph through surrogacy before having him quite swiftly taken away.  He shares how this has profoundly changed the way he now approaches and tackles life.
Much like his world class ultra-endurance athlete Lisa, Haisley finds the time amidst it all to run somewhat insane distances...
Enjoy!
 
TIFFANEE COOK
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This episode was a freestyle mishap, where our show preamble continued on for almost an hour.  

What's that Harps... you had a plan?  Ah well...  What we ended up with is a conversational wonderland around metacognition (thinking about thinking), human psychology, placebos, self-healing, laughter therapy, weirdness, getting offended and whatever else floated through our curious minds in the moment.  

It ended up one of my favourite banters.  And if you're still wondering about the episode title...  Yep, I bought happiness.  You'll hear all about my happy lamp as soon as you press play :)

TIFFANEE COOK

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Becca Braccialle has only quite recently been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome.

Despite the common misconception, Becca doesn't stroll down the street shouting profanities at people..  However, her tics do speak their own mind at their will.   When I first came across Becca through social media I was fascinated and intrigued by some of the videos she shares, Tourette's Karaoke being one of my favourites.

And like all things, my curiosity around what it's like for someone living with this unique condition meant that she was going to have to come and have a chat with me behind the RWTP mics.

Thanks Becca for coming on and sharing your experience.  If you'd like to check her out see the links below. 

BECCA BRACCIALLE 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/tourettesbian 

TIFFANEE COOK

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Well we're no stranger to talking all things trauma over here at RWTP.  You'll be thrilled to hear that I have cherry picked one of the leading experts and educators of Polyvagal Theory.  'What on earth is that, Tiff?' I hear you ask...  ah yes, that's precisely what I said too.  

It's about the relationship our autonomic nervous system has with our trauma experience and Deb shares how we can befriend this sophisticated built in system of ours and cultivate a more healthy functioning system.

Hey, maybe next time someone should tell the host she's on a world wide public platform and this is not her own personal trauma therapy session... but hey, how good are the perks of free therapy!!

DEB DANA
Website: www.rhythmofregulation.com

TIFFANEE COOK

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She's a mum, she's a wife, she's a budding Australian writer whose work has been widely published by the by some reputable publications.  
Naomi Fryers joins me to share the reality of her decade (ish) of clinging white-knuckled to the roller coaster of mental health mayhem that became her life after a nervous breakdown.   She recalls losing her ability to form sentences (not ideal for such a wordsmith), she recalls the day she was frog-marched across her lawn as police intervened for the sake of her own wellbeing, she recalls the highs and lows, the misdiagnosis of mental disorder and the challenges that continued as she made her VERY Long Way (that'd make a good book title) back to mental health.  
Oh, that book title has been taken...  Naomi's debut book ‘A VERY Long Way’ will be published in October 2021 around the same time as her upcoming TED Talk.  
She is fun, she is honest and she is courageous in the face of adversity... I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and I'm sure you will too!
   
NAOMI FRYERS
Facebook: www.facebook.com/naomi.elizabeth.fryers/

TIFFANEE COOK
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Dr. Elizabeth Yurth is an absolute weapon of a human who has dedicated her life to longevity and faaaaar out did this chat float my boat!

Dr. Yurth is (take a seat, she's ticked a lot of boxes here) double board-certified in Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Yurth also completed a fellowship in Interventional Spine and Sports Medicine from Stanford School of Medicine.  In addition, Dr. Yurth has a dual-Fellowship in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, and Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and more recently completed a Fellowship in Human Potential and Epigenetic Medicine.   She is also one of a select group of 25 hand-selected “Mastermind” members of the SSRP Institute, comprised of a small elite group of national peptide experts working in the emerging field of cellular medicine.

This conversation for me was nothing short of fascinating as we covered recovery, hormones, the dark side of the contraceptive pill, peptides and generally what is available to us to optimise our health and recovery as we age.

I already know how much you're going to love her... she'll be back!

DR. ELIZABETH YURTH

Boulder Longevity Institute (BLI):  www.boulderlongevity.com

BLI's Human Optimization Academy:  www.bli.academy

Instagram:  @boulderlongevity, @dryurth

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/BoulderLongevityInstitute/

TIFFANEE COOK

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