Tuh-MAY-toh/Tuh-MAH-toh: Different perspectives on spirituality in mental health [Online]
Join us for a panel conversation exploring the big question: How do spirituality and mental health connect? We’ll hear from a range of voices with different perspectives and life experiences. Together, we’ll explore how spirituality—whatever that word means to you—might relate to how we think, feel, and heal. Come along to listen, reflect, and be part of an open, thoughtful conversation.
Fight of my life
After her first daughter’s birth, Bek experienced intense postnatal panic. Misdiagnosed and overmedicated, she spent three years in and out of psychiatric hospitals. In this episode, she shares how she fought to get her life back and regain her agency.
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.
In Someone Else’s Shoes: Different ways of understanding mental health [Online]
An exploration of different ways of understanding mental health.
That Anxious Feeling [Online]
An exploration of ways to understand, manage and support anxiety.
What is it About Medication? [Online]
An open dialogue about the role of medication in mental health.
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 difficult gift
Mary O’Hagan shares snippets from her memoir “Madness Made Me” and speaks about how value and meaning can be derived from experiences of madness. We ponder what it could look like if communities looked after each other and created space for people in distress.
Resources on different mental health perspectives
Take time to read, watch or listen to a bunch of different people’s ways of understanding mental health and wellbeing
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.
