Lost and found
Our guest shares their experience of psychosis and depression, overcoming adversity, finding purpose through reading 200 books in 2 years, and discovering a life worth fighting for.
The message of suicide
This is a conversation with Jesse about suicide. Jesse shares his own experiences of suicidality and offers different ways we can have more compassionate conversations about it. We explore some of the misunderstandings around suicide, the importance of language and allowing people time and space to process and heal.
A search for meaning
Elsa talks us through her new role as the spiritual care lead and some of her hopes for the role.
Elsa breaks down and simplifies what the word ‘spirituality’ means, what it can look like in a modern world and why it can be important in the context of mental health and healing.
Is this really radical?
Paul helps to bust some myths about common misconceptions in the medical world. Paul speaks about the value of humanizing people’s experience rather than medicalising it and how including people’s loved ones in their care can make a real difference.
Stability in the storm
This is a chat with our guest who describes how it feels to experience psychosis. We talk about what they found helpful and not so helpful while being in that state and what life after psychosis has looked like in their life. We touch on the different ways phenomena like psychosis can transform people and how we can better care for people going through psychosis.
Extremely Human: Trailer
Here is a little taster of highlights from some of the conversations Lucy and Rachel have had so far with incredible humans who vulnerably share their different perspectives on these ideas.
We’re only human
We speak with Jamie, a social worker in the mental health world about being “a person first and a professional when it’s required”.
Introducing: Extremely Human
In this episode, we chat about what Extremely Human is all about.
Creative Knitting
For Shelley, knitting helps connect to her heritage.
What to expect from the course, ‘Making Sense of your Senses’
Don’t know what to expect from our Making Sense of your Senses course? Rick shares his experience with discovery college.