Challenges That Change Us

Trigger warning: this episode discusses mental health, depression and anxiety as well as chronic pain. For the first time in 4 years we are pausing the podcast for a couple of weeks. I love doing it, but sometimes life has other plans. There is a lot going on behind the scenes, and while I am ok, I need to free up space for family and medical appointments. I’m not fully disappearing and will be re...

For the first time in 4 years we are pausing the podcast for a couple of weeks. I love doing it, but sometimes life has other plans. There is a lot going on behind the scenes, and while I am ok, I need to free up space for family and medical appointments. I’m not fully disappearing and will be recording in advance. While I’m away we are releasing some of our most listened to episodes. We’ve spoken...

Motherhood can be absolutely exhausting and devastating, especially if you feel like you have no support. That was Stephanie Trethewey’s experience before she founded a life changing charity. In 2019, she swapped city life for rural Tassie, navigating the highs and lows of rural motherhood. Her struggles with postnatal depression and isolation inspired her to create Motherland; a national charity...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  TW: prescription drug use There are many gateways to drug dependence, but the modern pressures of motherhood are not often recognised as one of them. Erin Hughes is the founder and visionary behind Here, There, Everywhere, a platform born from her desire to create a space where women can truly be themselves. She is an entrepreneur,...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  The problem with burnout is that it can take an absolute mountain of disasters to truly make us realise how hard we are pushing ourselves and for Janella Purcell it took a major natural disaster amongst other things. Janella Purcell is an award-winning Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist, Chef, author, and host of the Toxic Silence...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Money troubles might be considered common for many of us, but no one speaks about them, and because money is so rarely spoken about, some of us can end up in very real, and stressful money situations. That’s what happened to Nell when she moved to LA to chase her acting career, only to find a lack of financial education completely u...

Grab your window of tolerance worksheet here TW: Miscarriage Any pregnancy loss can be traumatic, but Hollie Farmer experienced multiples losses, health complications and trauma on her journey to motherhood. Hollie is a beautiful woman who is very special to our family. She has been a babysitter of my 3 girls over the years and I have watched her grow into an incredibly strong, thoughtful and deep...

Grab your window of tolerance worksheet here I want to introduce a framework that has become one of the most practical and powerful tools I use personally and professionally almost every single day: the Window of Tolerance. The framework was originally developed by psychiatrist Dr. Dan Siegel and helps explain the zone where our nervous system is regulated enough for us to think clearly, respond e...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Imagine having a parent tell you they don’t love you, and then being left to heal from that. That was Aimee Hudsons experience in her early 20’s and it drove her to learn and understand the influence of parental attachment. Aimee is a clinically registered psychotherapist who is deeply passionate about helping people understand how...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  TW: sexual abuse What happens when the people, places, and systems meant to keep you safe don’t? And how do you rebuild trust when it’s been broken early? In this episode, Mish shares her story of growing up without a stable sense of home or belonging, navigating a complex and challenging childhood, and carrying more than most kids...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Resilience is a big theme of this podcast, so this week we are doing things a bit differently and inviting on an expert in resilience. Lyn Worsley is a Clinical Psychologist, former Nurse and Teacher, and Director of The Resilience Centre in Sydney. For over 26 years, she has led innovative therapy, research, training, as well as gr...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Billy was once the guy everyone knew as the happy-go-lucky, always-up-for-anything friend, but beneath that surface he was quietly navigating a growing sense of overwhelm that would eventually reshape his life. From the early days of university, where depression first took hold, through years of uncertainty, physical symptoms, and a...

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  If you’re a mum, a dad, a worker, a carer or a friend supporting someone through something, if you’re carrying multiple roles and responsibilities, you might love your life, but feel like you’re moving from moment to moment without a breather. Always on. Always needed. Always thinking about what’s next. T...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Today’s episode is a deeply honest and powerful conversation with Jacinta Tynan, journalist, author, presenter, podcast host and creator of The Spiritual Book Club. With a background in mainstream journalism, she’s also not afraid to explore concepts like spirituality and meditation, helping to make them more relatable and atta...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Imagine being a regional farmer living in remote Australia. Then imagine deciding to swim the English Channel. This is part 2 of our chat with Brendan Cullen. I highly recommend listening to part 1 first. After his journey with his mental health, Brendan decided to make some big changes, and one of those was getting into swimming. B...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We know remote and regional Australia has often been a space where mental health and abuse can fester untreated, and Brendan Cullen’s story is a prime example of this. Brendan has always lived and worked on stations outside of Broken Hill, but his life has been much more than just managing stations. With his diagnosis of depression...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.    We’ve heard before about receiving a diagnosis later in life, but imagine the confronting experience of being admitted to a psych ward as an adult and being told you have bipolar disorder. Laura Schiller is a self-proclaimed hot-mess wife, mom of 3 and retired lawyer.    Five years ago she was a content wife, mom, l...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  TW: child sexual abuse and trafficking This is part 2 of Robyn Cameron’s incredibly traumatic story of abuse, and trafficking inside a cult and continues to share the trauma she experienced and how she has come out the other side. own healing journey in the 1990s, combined with lived experience, inspired the creation of Golden Keys...

Book in for our next burnout masterclass here. Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  TW: child sexual abuse and trafficking We have discussed the horrors of child sexual abuse before, but Robyn Cameron’s story reveals a level of depravity an injustice that is truly shocking. Growing up in a cult she was subjected to abuse and mistreatment from an incredibly young age, b...

Book in for our next burnout masterclass here. Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Trigger warning: suicide and suicidal ideation This week we have the privilege to talk to someone with incredible experience working in the mental health space. Ken Meldrum has a history of being a registered nurse for 46 years working mainly in Rural, Remote Health and Mental Health. H...

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We’ve talked about experiencing a health issue and not knowing the cause and we’ve talked about the impact of suddenly losing mobility from an accident. But what if you suddenly became paralysed, but no one knew why? That was the experience for Ro Clark in 2019. Ro is a Sunshine Coast based acrylic painte...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We often talk about how challenges shape us, but planning and prevention are just as powerful as recovery. In this episode we bring back our in-house psychologist Vanessa de Sauty to unpack practical ways to set your year up for success, from visible yearly and weekly planners and color-coding to energy accounting, nervous-system aw...

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Claire Torkington has lived a life. That means there have been big highs, as well as some big challenges. Besides dealing with burnout, and fighting fires as a firefighter, Claire has lived through numerous other close calls and just avoiding multiple deadly incidents, including 3 terror attacks. Her career spans the globe as she ha...

Hey all! We had a bit of a glitch with this weeks episode. It will be coming soon, but until it does I wanted to take a walk down memory lane and highlight an episode that has stayed with me ever since we recorded it. This one is powerful and such a great listen, and even if you have listened before I think there would be whole new takeaways from a second liusten. And if you haven't listened. enjo...

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Trigger warning: suicide, depression, acts of war. Many of us have seen war movies, but nothing can truly explain the horrors and intensity of war. So we can only begin to understand the mental impact that going to war can have on the brave soldiers who are involved. Dave Payne has carved a difficult path...