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This week on Brainwaves we’ll be talking to Tim Daly from This is My Brave Australia. Tim is on the show today to share with us all that’s happening with TIMBA including their upcoming film festival and story events. https://www.thisismybraveaustralia.com/

This week on Brainwaves we speak to Author and Philosopher Dr Paul Fearne about his most recent book Paul VerlaineYou can find more of Paul's works HEREIf you'd like to get in touch with Paul you can reach out to him on TwitterPaul is an ex Brainwaves presenter and we love having him on the show!

This week on Brainwaves we’ll be speaking with Ned ‘Noodle’ Evans about the Wellways campaign Break the Cycle. Break the cycle is a campaign created by Wellways to promote positive health and reduce the rate of suicide. Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged between 15 and 44 years of age and has a devastating impact on families, friends and communities. We talk to Ned about hi...

Following on from Homelessness Week last week, we will be chatting to Ben tonight. Ben has experienced Homelessness multiple times in his life and he is very passionate about reducing stigma and dispelling the myths that people have about homeless people and especially people  sleeping rough. Ben has agreed to come onto the show to talk about some of his Homeless experiences including rough sleepi...

Tonight on Brainwaves Suzie talks with psychologist Dr Louise Hansen. Louise shares her lived experience of psychosis through a holistic lens, what led to this experience and how she was able to recover and go on to be a practicing psychologist. Louise has used her lived experience and research to help people and is well known on twitter for sharing helpful information about mental health with her...

On today’s show we have two guests, firstly we have Dr Lynne Reeder and our second guest today is Sam Luxemburg. Both of our guests today are here to talk about Café Conversations an event that is part of the Compassionate Ballarat movement.  In today’s show we will be discussing sexual abuse. If you find anything about today’s show distressing you can call lifeline on 131114 or n Sexual Assault C...

This week we speak to Ecopsychologist Deb Punton. Deb is an Ecopsychologist, Eco-Art Therapist Facilitator, Environment Educator, and Permaculture Landscape Designer. She works with Port Phillip EcoCentre and within her Greensong business where she practices various methods of connecting with nature to create healthier relationships within self, community and environment. Tonight we ask Deb about...

In the lead up to National Schizophrenia Week (23 to 29 May) tonight we'll be chatting to playwright Michel Toumey about living with Schizophrenia, and his debut play ‘Little Brother, Big Sister’ at La Mama Theatre in Carlton.

Today is our final episode of our 3 part series on the Victorian Royal Commission and Mental Health Reform. In the first week we spoke to the wonderful Cindy Smith, the CEO of the Australian Association of Social Workers. You can listen HEREIn the second week we spoke with the amazing Ingrid Ozols AM, a very powerful mental health and suicide prevention advocate. You can listen HEREThis week we ar...

If you listened in last week you would know this week is part 2 in our series on the Victorian Royal Commission and Mental health Reform. If you missed it, you can find it HERELast week we spoke to the wonderful Cindy Smith, the CEO of the Australian Association of Social Workers. This week we have the absolute pleasure to speak with Ingrid Ozols AM. Ingrid is an active workplace, and community, m...

The Royal Commission was called in 2018 to review all parts of the mental health system in Victoria. The final report was released in March this year and tonight we will be speaking with Cindy Smith, the CEO of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Cindy is here to give her insight into the commission and how she sees change in the future.

Tonight on Brainwaves we are lucky enough to talk with Jojo Chinaski, a Victorian comedian who is known for her stand-up where she shares her experiences as a non-binary, sex positive woman with bipolar 2.  You can see Jojo at her upcoming show HERE And you can reach out to Jojo at @jojochinaski via her Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Tonight on Brainwaves we talk to Ian Graves who lives with an ABI. Through a good sense of humour Ian shares his story about what it is like to live with an ABI. Ian has a big following on Twitter, and is well known for his sense of humour and positive outlook on life. You can find Ian on Twitter here @xskinn   

Is there a funny side to Mental Health? Comedian Andrew Lewis thinks so. Andy talks about his experiences as part of his upcoming comedy show for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Tonight he’ll be talking to the Brainwaves team about his experiences and how comedy is his life. Join us for some laughs and some heartfelt conversation about Andy’s lived experience. You can find Andy on Tik...

This week on Brainwaves we’ll be speaking with Peter about how he manages with both physical and mental health challenges. Peter talks about how he believes that mental and physical health are fundamentally linked and how beneficial a holistic approach can be to overall wellbeing.

Katerina is an author passionate about supporting those in recovery of mental health. Katerina in her poetry book Breakthrough– the reason mother didn’t love me writes about her lived experience as a young carer for her mother who was given the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Katerina’s book Breakthrough gives the reader insight into the life of a child whose mother experienced a deep loss of herself....

Alex Devantier spent many months running the #istandwithdan campaign and afterwards he noticed that something wasn’t quite right with his mental health. Alex suffers from an eating disorder and PTSD and today he has decided to come and share his story with Brainwaves listeners in hopes to help others who may have found their mental health challenges resurface post Lockdown. CONTENT WARNING: Eating...

Tonight for part 3 of our Perinatal Mental Health series we chat with Josie Smythe, the founder of Smiling After PNDJosie experienced postnatal depression after the birth of both her children. Since recovering Josie has used her experience to raise awareness, foster community, reduce shame and stigma and encourage affected people to seek help. You can find out more about Smiling After PND by visit...

Tonight on Brainwaves as part 2 of our Perinatal Mental Health series we talk to Bernadette who talks about her journey into motherhood in the early 90’s with existing mental health challenges and how that impacted her during her pregnancy and after the birth of her daughter.  If you would like to listen to part 1 of this series where we talk to Anita you can click HERE If you find anything about...

Over the next 3 weeks #Brainwaves will be presenting a special Perinatal Mental Health series.  On part 1 of the series tonight we talk to Anita about how she embarked on her journey into motherhood with a history of serious mental health challenges. We discuss with Anita how with the right planning and support it's possible to start a family regardless of a history of mental health challenges. If...

This week on Brainwaves we talk to one of our wonderful team members Suzie. Suzie is keen to tell you her story of personally overcoming great phobias, in order to inspire others to do the same. Interestingly she unknowingly used graduated exposure therapy, which she later learnt about in her psychotherapy studies.  Suzie would like to share her story too in her own words:  Overcoming phobia's. Su...

This week on Brainwaves we talk to Ruth, a family violence and social justice campaigner and advocate. Ruth is here today to talk about her lived experience of surviving family violence, including ‘image-based abuse’ and multiple forms of systemic and legal abuse.  Ruth is committed to being part of the change, to improve safety and support for women and children who are leaving, or who have left,...

Tonight on Brainwaves we talk to Helen. Helen grew up in a household where both her parents were heavy drinkers. The experience has impacted almost every aspect of her life. She also talks about Al-Anon and how it has helped her. For support: phone the Alanon Family Groups helpline on 1300 252 666

Tonight on Brainwaves we’ll be talking to Ingrid. Ingrid was admitted as a lawyer in 1999 and has predominantly practised in family law, child protection, intervention orders and royal commissions including family violence and institutional child sexual abuse. In 2016 Ingrid attended the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Rome to hear the evidence of (and cross...

This week to celebrate Mental Health week and Brainwaves 10th birthday we have a 1 hour special where we chat with a few of the members of our team about their time as part of the Brainwaves show, some of their favourite memories and why Brainwaves is so important to them.