In this episode, Niall has one of the most important conversations we’ve ever had on this podcast with Dr. Mike Ryan, the man leading the World Health Organisation’s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Executive Director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, Dr. Ryan says this pandemic has exposed the inequality of our health systems […]
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In this episode, Niall speaks to Ireland’s leader, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, about the failures of the country’s mental health service. They delve into how we can develop better systems of care and support within mental health, how education is a crucial part of this and how policy now needs to start catching up with conversation
Where is My Mind? Episode 50: If Not Now, When? Read More »
In this episode, Niall speaks to Professor David Voas, a demographer and sociologist of religion and the co-author of the paper The Emergence Of Conspirituality. They discuss the convergence of new age spirituality and conspiracy theories, how misinformation is a dangerous factor and how we, as humans, have an innate need to believe in something.
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“I came to on the edge of a train platform” Carol has dissociative identity disorder (DID), living with multiple distinct and relatively enduring personality states. She chats to Ellen and Yvette about DID – her work, her family and her therapy. Stay in touch with Mentally Yours on Twitter and our private Facebook group.
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What To Do If You Don’t Like Yourself Kat Nichols is a blogger and writer who has suffered from mental health issues since the age of 14. She chats to Yvette about anorexia, self harm and writing about mental health – on her blog, for the magazine Happiful and Counselling Directory. Stay in touch with
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In this podcast, Conor follows on from episode #20 with ways, in his experience, that we improve our mental health when we think it could be declining, or just in general. Take 20 minutes and see what you think 🙂 Conor is not a therapist so these thoughts are his own and from his own
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For this episode I am flying solo to talk about toxic positivity. What is it? Why do we do it? How can we avoid it? Buy Naked: Ten Truths To Change Your Life now, widely available online. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/owningittheanxietypodcast.
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For this episode I am talking about the power of journalling – with an old school pen and paper – for anxiety management. How can it help? How can we ensure it’s not something else to feel pressure with? How can we make sure it’s proactively helping us to own our anxiety? I take you
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A short and simple 5 minute breathing exercise to help relieve some tension in your shoulders and bring you into the present moment with structured box breathing. Enjoy 🙂
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Being busy is one of the backbones of Irish Culture. If we aren’t on the go, be it with work, study, sport or socializing, then we are doing something wrong. Amongst all of our busy-ness, it is easy to fall into a state of automatic pilot where our senses fall into the background and we
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Much of the anxiety and stress that we experience can be felt in our bodies. After a stressful week we can come home with tension all over, be it our shoulders, our neck, our jaw or our forehead. The Tense and Release exercise is a great way to remove some of that tension and can
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A nice and relaxing ten minute seated meditation that you can try at home 🙂
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