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In conversation with Julia Warren about bereavement through overdose
Today I am talking to Julia Warren. Julia is a mother to her two boys, a
trauma informed yoga teacher and a writer. She is also in recovery from
drug addiction and recently stepped into the role of widow as in...
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In conversation with Julia Warren Part 2
This episode is the second part of a conversation that I had with Julia
Warren. Julia is a mother, yoga teacher, writer and recovering addict. In
September 2021, she lost her husband Doug when he relapsed and died...
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In conversation with Lara Doherty about vision boards and motivation.
In January 2017, Lara came out of a long-term relationship, and felt
broken, lost, stuck, lacking in direction and purpose. In November She read
a book about vision boards, created her own and 4 months later she was...
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In conversation with Kari Gillespie about walking the Camino de Santiago
When faced with an empty nest, Kari Gillespie decided to spread her own
wings. She gave up a job that she loved and set off to walk across Spain
and then she wrote a book about it called Pilgrim. I loved the book...
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In conversation with Leslie Davies about emotional eating
Leslie Davies, author of ‘You can’t eat love: learning to love yourself can
change your relationship with food’ is here to talk about her relationship
with food and how she realised that the emptiness that she was...
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In conversation with John Giordano about addiction
John was the son of a heroin dealer, and he himself ended up falling into
drugs and alcohol and became homeless. In 2012 he sold his own drug
treatment facility for $45 million dollars and he has helped 1000s of...
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In conversation with Vanessa Belleau on belonging
In this episode about belonging with Vanessa Belleau I started with my poem
The Secret to Belonging. We discuss the evolution of diversity and
inclusion as buzzwords to the necessary action that's needed in order to...
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In conversation with Caro Gomez about creativity
In this episode on creativity, we began with my poem, Nothing rhymes with
purple. Caro Gomez shared her creative path which involves tenacity, grit,
criticism, self doubt, and concrete blocks, metaphorically, not...
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The Therapeutic Poet in conversation with Marc Pimsler about recovering from shame.
In conversation with Jenny Alexander about bullying.
Joining me on The Therapeutic Poet podcast today is Jenny Alexander.
Jenny is a prolific author and some of the books that she has written about
tackle the subject of bullying. Some of these are for children, like...
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In conversation with Dr. Paula Croxson on memory and storytelling.
Today on The Therapeutic Poet podcast I am joined by neuroscientist,
science communicator and storyteller Dr. Paula Croxson. Paula is also an
open water swimmer regularly swimming marathons, a flautist with the band...
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Skilful suffering
Something that none of us want to experience, and yet we all do, is
suffering. In our western mostly secular society it is easy to see why we
see suffering as an affront to our human rights. We all want to live...
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