Chatting Bear

Hi everyone Sorry I haven't been around much. 2023 sucked ass and I couldn't bring myself to record anything after July. Then my lovely friend Wendy came over from USA for a couple of months and we had a wonderful catch up. She then convinced me to start it up again and so this is the first of what I hope will be many episodes with her discussing the differences in many aspects between our...

What can we do to show support to our LGBTQIA= friends, both during Pride and beyond? How did Pride start? Do you know your pansexual from your demisexual? In this episode, we discuss what we know and educate ourselves with some history and identification.

In this episode, Rachel, Jenni and Lyndsey discuss volunteering and the documented benefits to a persons mental health from volunteering. They discuss their own experiences of volunteering and how it has benefitted them.

What makes you laugh? In this episode, Rachel, Jenni, Lyndsey, Louisa and Vanessa discuss what makes them laugh and the health benefits of laughter

Get to know the effects of anxiety on the body and on the mind via the MIND website. In this episode, Rachel discusses these effects and describes her own experiences of anxiety and the impact it has played on her career as a midwife as well as her personal life and relationships. She chats about discrimination and judgment from others and the stigma still carried by some. For more information vis...

Dopamine, Oxytocin, Seratonin, Endorphins are the hormones that play a huge part in feeling happy, content etc. As May is Mental Health Awareness month, we thought we would look at where the hormones are produced, what part they play and how we can get some!

Rachel, Lyndsey, Louisa, Jenni and Ness discuss some types of withdrawal, the symptoms it can bring and the impact on mental health. We discuss prescribed medication withdrawal, sugar withdrawal, relationship withdrawal and our experiences with them and how they have affected us and potentially how they could affect people. Tell us your experiences

As April is Stress Awareness Month, we wanted to talk about it and as it is the last week in April, what better time. It is such a vast and complicated subject that we really only scratched the surface, talking about some of the presenting symptoms and whether we have experienced them. In a future episode we want to discuss ways to combat stress, but for this week, just being aware of the symptoms...

There won’t be an audio episode this week I’m sorry to say. This explains why

The gang is all back together again! And you can tell as we descend into chaos once more. We discuss our history of having pets and what they have meant to us, we also discuss favourite animals and we chat about how animals can impact our mental health. Let us know your experiences of having pets

In this episode, Rachel, Jenni and Lyndsey discuss how the weather affects their mental health and Jenni and Rachel discuss the impact of weather on Fibromyalgia and how that too impacts on their mental health. SAD is discussed and ways to help avoid feeling low due to weather conditions. We'd love to hear your experiences

Rachel, Lyndsey and Jenni chat to Sue about her experiences with her son who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a child. They discuss the signs and symptoms, what to look out for, how we can help someone and its impact on the mental health of everyone involved.

In this episode, Rachel, Jenni and Lyndsey chat to someone who worked in the health care services during covid and a university student who studied during covid. They discuss their experiences and the impact it had on their own mental health and the MH of others around them.

No episode this week, but stay tuned for some great interviews

In this episode, Rachel, Jenni, Louisa and Lyndsey share their thoughts and experiences of childhood and mental health, the signs to watch out for in children which suggests they are struggling and ways to help your children with coping strategies

In this episode, Rachel, Jenni, Lyndsey and Louisa discuss what emotional abandonment is and how it can affect mental health.

Once again, using Boardroom gaming cafes TikTok and using our own Facebook, we go live, playing board games and answering questions.  In this episode, we manage to reign in our chaos and have some great audience members playing along with us.  Lots of fun to be had.

We scrape the surface with this subject and will definitely look again in more depth in the future.  Rachel, Lyndsey, Louisa and Jenni discuss their experiences of this subject and we look at each generation, what happened that was noteworthy and why it might have affected the way they see and do things differently to the next. If you have any comments or questions please get in touch at chat...

Do you have health anxiety? Be it anxiety about yours or someone you loves health, a health care setting or a health care practitioner, many people struggle with some form of anxiety relating to health.  Rachel, Jenni, Lyndsey and Louisa discuss their own experiences and possible reasons for it, stemming from childhood in some cases. If you have a comment or a question, let us know, chatting_...

No audio this week as I forgot to record the audio of our live session. So, head over to YouTube and/or Facebook to see the chaos that ensued when trying to do our first ‘live’ session

I love this episode, Rachel, Louisa, Jenni, Lyndsey, Vanessa and Maddie all discuss what they do that helps their own mental health.  Some really good suggestions here as well as some hilarity as always.  We will be enclosing our distraction lists on our Facebook Page.

What not to do in a podcast episode.  We love playing games to have fun and help our mental health, however, this time it was a bit too chaotic for a podcast episode.  Have a listen and let us know your thoughts

Do you procrastinate? Does it affect your mental health?  Rachel, Lyndsey, Louisa and Vanessa along with Maddie (Rachels' daughter) and new team member, Jenni discuss how and why they procrastinate and chat about ways to reduce it.

Rachel wishes everyone Happy New Year, talks about resolutions and whether they are a good thing or not.  If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, either leave them here or on one of the social media platforms Chatting Bear is on; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest.

In this episode, Rachel, Lyndsey, Vanessa and Louisa look back at their highs and lows of the year and discuss how their mental health was with their experiences.