Dr. Sharon Lambert is a senior lecturer and researcher at UCC, with a specific research interest in the impact of trauma on development and its links with addiction. Dr. Lambert has been interviewed on the Blindboy podcast and has given talks to an Gardai Siochana and the Metropolitan police. During the podcast, we touch on topics such as school closures, addiction, trauma, racism and much more. This talk is particularly useful for anyone working in trauma based work or with disadvantaged children.

For anyone interested in getting in contact with Dr. Lambert, her twitter handle is @sharonlambert0 and her academic profile can be found at http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A011/sharonlambert

Hope ye enjoy!

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Eoin and Christy are delighted to be back for Season 2 of The Mind Yourself Podcast.

In this short intro they discuss what they've been up over the last 7 months with Motus. They also give a you a flavour for the guests to expect in this coming season.

Mind Yourselves!

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Eoin and Christy discuss and debate some of the extraordinary events that have taken place so far in 2020.

They look into how some of these events can impact our mental health and how we can deal with them using different psychological techniques.

This will also be the final episode in Season 1 of The Mind Yourself Podcast. We plan to put our heads together to come up with new and exciting for the episodes in Season 2 which we plan to launch later in the summer. Any feedback or ideas you have for us would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for all your support and listening in each week over the past 6 months and we look forward to being back with a bang very soon!

Mind Yourselves:)

Links:

Caroline Flack Kindness Blog - https://www.motuslearning.com/post/caroline-flack-why-we-re-getting-kindness-wrong

5 Ways of Wellbeing Blogs : 

https://www.motuslearning.com/post/1-connection

https://www.motuslearning.com/post/2-take-notice

https://www.motuslearning.com/post/3-stay-active

https://www.motuslearning.com/post/4-learn

https://www.motuslearning.com/post/5-giving-and-gratitude

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Eoin and Christy are back to discuss the importance of social skills and how it's linked to emotional intelligence.

They cover how social media and technology is impacting our social skills, active listening, self compassion and debating culture, relationships as well as much, much more!

We hope the key tips we highlight can help you improve your social skills.

*Apologies for any sound issues. We can't wait to be done with these Skype podcasts!

Links:

Carl Rogers (Just Listen!) - https://drhurd.com/2018/08/10/just-listen-really-listen-carl-rogers/

Transactional Analysis - https://medium.com/@NataliMorad/how-to-communicate-better-with-transactional-analysis-d0d32f9d50da

School 21 - https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/school-21-doing-things-differently-in-east-london/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwrIf3BRD1ARIsAMuugNs5ZlS-lPKZDrGpDKM2NiiOOfanmbF0O0Um4ycJV2WIyyjpHR98qboaAlmkEALw_wcB

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - https://positivepsychology.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/#:~:text=Acceptance%20and%20Commitment%20Therapy%20(ACT)%20encourages%20people%20to%20embrace%20their,therapy%20offers%20clinically%20effective%20treatment.

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Keira Keogh is a private Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) consultant who specialises in children with autism. In this wide ranging conversation, we talk about the current position of autism in society.

She also discusses how to detect autism and what has been found to be effective for parenting autism. 

With over eight years working as a Behaviour Analyst, Keira has gained valuable skills working with children and families in a variety of settings, such as at home, school, creches, and in the community.

While already heavily booked, anyone can enquire about Keira’s services through  her various channels:

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

Instagram: @keirakeogh

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This week Eoin and Christy go in depth into the whole area of Empathy. Who would have known it would be such a complex topic.

We discuss areas such as:

- Neuroscience of Empathy

- AI

- Empathy vs Sympathy

- Altruism & Why Empathy mightn't always be a good thing

Links:

- https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen?language=en

- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/06/against-empathy-paul-bloom-the-empathy-instinct-peter-bazalgette-review

- https://www.ted.com/talks/rana_el_kaliouby_this_app_knows_how_you_feel_from_the_look_on_your_face?language=en

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This week Eoin and Christy are back to talk about Emotional Regulation.

They discuss helpful tips and strategies to help you regulate negative emotions such as Sadness, Anger, Envy/Jealousy, Shame/Guilt and Worry.

This episode will give you easy to adopt techniques to help you manage the feelings associated with these emotions. The techniques are suitable for anyone, young and old.

Make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode. 

Mind Yourself!

Links:

World Death Rituals : https://io9.gizmodo.com/10-bizarre-death-rituals-from-around-the-world-5960343

A critique of the stages of Grief:  ihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5375020/

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Niamh has a BA in Psychology, an MA in Clinical Psychology and an MSc in Sport Management Specialising in Sport Psychology ans is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).  She runs her own practice, in which she works in two main areas: Optimum Mental Health and Optimum Performance (for sports, business, music etc.)

Due to Covid-19 her book release has been pushed back until around the end of August 2020. It is available to pre-order at all good bookstores. Here is a link to pre-order with Easons - https://www.easons.com/tell-me-the-truth-about-loss-niamh-fitzpatrick-9780717183845

In this episode Niamh speaks about exactly what sports psychologists do and how to improve your athletic performance, regardless of if you play a team sport or individual sport. Niamh then jumps into what resilience is and how you can move towards it, combined with insight into parenting children trying to balance sport with academics. 

Sports Psychology : 0:00 - 25.06

Resilience : 25.07 - End

For anyone interested in finding out more about Niamh or for more information on her upcoming book:

Website: https://niamhfitzpatrickpsychology.ie/

Twitter - @NFitzPsychology 

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This week, Eoin and Christy discuss the hot topic in childhood emotional intelligence education, which is Resilience. 

This is also Step 5 of our classroom workshop.

They discuss specific areas such as failure, loneliness and bullying and how we can‘t avoid this avoid this adversity and therefore must develop the ability to manage them and overcome them to become stronger.

A great listen with tips relevant for people young and old!

Links to content and sources mentioned:

Factfulness by Hans Rosling - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-International/dp/1250107814

The Coddling of the American Mind - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897

The Newsroom -https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk

Health risks of Loneliness - https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20180504/loneliness-rivals-obesity-smoking-as-health-risk

Masten, A. S. (2018). Resilience in childhood: Developmental perspectives, Children, 5 (98).

Emotional Hygiene by Guy Winch - https://youtu.be/rni41c9iq54

Zeeko (online wellbeing) - https://zeeko.ie/

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This week’s podcast welcomes Martin Leonard, who founded Mountain a Months for Mental Health, which is a non for profit that organises hikes for groups of people to deal with their mental health and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. 

Martin explains the journey of mountain a month for mental health, the mental health benefits of hiking and his advice on parenting mental health.

We felt this was important to demonstrate that there are more social and less intimidating ways to be active other than home workouts and gyms. 

You can keep updated with Martin’s non for profit organisation at https://www.facebook.com/Mountains4mentalhealth/ and you can support it through their GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/mountain-a-month-for-mental-health).

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