Lively Minds, the UK Mental Health Podcast

Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen talks to us about how her feminism, spirituality and career in social justice have intersected with her mental health. We discuss the possibility of redefining our community-centred identities as well as what we might learn from those who have gone before us. Follow us on Twitter and more at https://www.bio.link/livelyminds Find out more about our show at https://www.any...

It turns out that there is no one way to measure 'happiness' and what it actually means depends a lot on where we live in the world. In today's episode we'll be talking with William Tov who is Associate Professor of Psychology at Singapore Management University. Arguably, everyone wants to be happy - and people who experience mental health problems may find this more challenging than most. But wha...

Just because you can go about your day-to-day life doesn't necessarily mean that everything is OK. Welcome to the world of "high functioning mental health problems" In this week’s episode of Lively Minds, we speak with Panama-based Pyschologist Karen Lowinger. Will came across Karen when he stumbled upon an article she wrote for online publication: the Mighty, called "When you are too functional t...

Speaking during men's mental health week 2022, mental health advocate Jake Dunn discusses his own mental health story, his involvement with men's mental health groups and what role volunteering and peer-support has in providing mental health care at a grassroots level. Male identity is different for everyone, and Will and Jake talk from the perspective of their own lived experiences about some of...

"We will label you. We will punish you. And this is true of women in Victorian times who were labelled as 'hysterical'. [In the UK] being Gay was a 'mental illness' until the 1970s" Artist, poet, writer, activist, filmmaker and professional mischief-maker: Dolly Sen, joins us to discuss her own experiences and career, and why she questions whether ‘mental illness’ even exists. We talk about the cu...

In episode 1 of our brand new series: Lively Minds: the mental health podcast , Ellie and Will ask ' what is mental health? ' Drawing on their own personal and professional experience, they discuss how they frame and understand their own mental health challenges, the pros and cons of diagnostic labels, the difference between mental 'wellbeing' and mental 'health' and the problem with the prevalent...

Will and Ellie chat to therapist and fellow podcaster: Stuart Ralph about what is perhaps one of the most misunderstood of all mental health conditions: OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Often misrepresented in popular culture as a ‘personality quirk’, OCD is in fact a potentially debilitating illness in which the sufferer feels compelled to reduce the anxiety caused by 'intrusive thoughts' th...

Led by people with lived experience, Lively Minds is a UK-based podcast about mental health challenges that go beyond the ebb and flow of the everyday. Hosts: Ellie Page and Will Sadler present a show that is less about how we deal with our mental health problems, and more about how we understand them in the first place. In our first season, we will be talking with Clinical Psychologist Karen Lowi...