Being On The Inside
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -A new podcast unpacking issues of Mental Health and Well Being, Spirituality, Race, Social Justice and Culture. Conversations with cake and compassion. From the ordinary to the extraordinary stories of amazing people.
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Episode Twenty two: WE ARE LIKE WAVES
September 14, 2021 15:18 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBThis episode I chat with Jordyn Romero, she is a award winning filmmaker from Santa Fe, NM. Her work aims to elevate the female narrative in the outdoor space. Story telling is what this podcast is all about, sharing my own, but also about creating space and place for others to tell theirs. This is what Jordyn Romero has done with the film WE ARE LIKE WAVES. In this episode I have the pleasure of hearing Jordyn's story, one that leads her to the Indian ocean to the island of Sri Lanka ...
Episode Twenty One: Gender Equality In Sport: Playing The Long Game
July 27, 2021 19:01 - 1 hour - 78 MBIn this episode I have the pleasure of chatting with Bethan Taylor- Swaine. Bethan is a PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London where she studies the representations and identities of women in ultra running. This episode we delve into what it means to be a woman in sport, the history of how we are encouraged to participate. How early years sports can be taught through shame and humiliation and how men are better facilitated to achieve success. That essentially men still dominate s...
Episode Twenty: Creative Nature for Wellbeing, SMHAF 2021
June 17, 2021 14:32 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBThis episode is a collaboration with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2021. I chat with Kate Stevens, the Creative Learning Co-ordinator, at the Beacons arts centre, a contemporary theatre and arts venue in the heart of Inverclyde. Kate is one of the workshop facilitators of a series called; creative nature for wellbeing that ran during this year's festival. The Beacon partnered with Belville Community Garden Trust and Mind Mosaic Counselling and Therapy to deliver a series of work...
Episode Nineteen: ROOM ON THE BOARD FOR EVERYONE: International Surf Therapy
May 18, 2021 20:29 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBIn this episode I am blessed to meet and share space with Kris Primacio, who currently serves as the CEO of the International Surf Therapy Organisation (ISTO), a Nonprofit she co-founded in 2017 in Cape Town You are going to hear stories about sea otters, dolphins, the healing power and potential of mother ocean, about how surf therapy can both heal and unite in a common goal. You will hear Kris emotionally express how the death of her father impacted her and how she took to the water to...
Episode Eighteen: RACIST BRITAIN, Tales From a Small Island
March 26, 2021 14:29 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBIn this episode I chat with Glasgow-based artist and activist Karlie Wu, her work delves into the identity of being British/Scottish-Chinese, its expectations and misconceptions, and the reality of this lived experience exploring ‘cultural identity. Karlie is also one of the six founding members of besea.n (Britain’s East and South East Asian Network), a non-profit, anti-racism grassroots organisation that tackles negative stereotypes and advocates positive media representation of East and...
Episode Seventeen: Dermatillomania- PICKING RECOVERY
March 01, 2021 22:14 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBKirsty Alexander is a teacher on the Applied Gender Studies programme at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and a gardener at Ochil Tower School in Auchterarder. In this episode, she talks with me about living with Dermatillomania. Otherwise known as Excoriation or skin picking disorder. Skin picking disorder is one of a group of behaviours known as body-focused repetitive behaviours, it's currently classified as an impulse control disorder. Kirsty allows us to hear her journey from...
Episode Sixteen: Home School Dropout
February 03, 2021 11:13 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBIn this episode I chat to Viana Maya and Karsten Huttenhain both of pRESPECT, an organisation that through the ethos of Respect, Empowerment and Empathy aim to is to empower minority ethnic and other marginalised people into meaningful employment. This podcast episode will not tell you how to ‘home school’ properly, it's not about study tips and goal setting but, about giving space and time to acknowledge how we are approaching, surviving, not coping with the winter lockdown. You will he...
Episode Fifteen: WE GO OUTSIDE TOO
November 20, 2020 10:57 - 38 minutes - 63.2 MBIn the episode, I chat to Marlon Patrice founder of Wegooutsidetoo, a UK-based organisation that hopes to encourage, support, and inspire the black community into outdoor activity, exercise, and the multiple benefits of nature. Marlon is a long-distance runner, mental health first aider, and owner of a natural health store. Brought up in the city of Birmingham Marlon has always been drawn to the great outdoors and the benefits of nature, but it was the tragic passing of his son in a kni...
Episode Fourteen: MENTAL HEALTH SWIMS
October 22, 2020 18:00 - 52 minutes - 87 MBIn part five of a mini-series on wild swimming health and healing, I chat with Rachel Ashe the founder of mental health swims. A UK based organisation looking to encourage people to dive into the world of outdoor swimming, supporting people gain the benefits of cold water and community. This episode is about the wonderful world of wild swimming and how you can get involved in a mental health swim near you by joining this thriving community, but it's also about the realities of living wit...
Episode Thirteen: DO YOU BELIEVE?
September 29, 2020 20:12 - 36 minutes - 59.4 MBIn this episode, you are invited to join a newly formed coven of very amateur Edinburgh witches. I have always been fascinated by the practices of Witchcraft, Wicca, Shamanism, magic and the connection between nature and spirituality. I decided to take my curiously a little further, I wanted to know if there are rituals in our daily life that maybe connect and or disconnect us from our spirituality and selves. I invited a small group of lovely friends over (before the new lockdown restrict...
Episode Twelve: Ain´t Nobody Loves Me Better
August 07, 2020 13:41 - 1 hour - 114 MBThis podcast is all about the relationship we have with our physical bodies. It’s about Fatphobia, the body positivity movement, fat bias, demonising of the bigger body in our media, in our advertising, the social stigma of obesity. It´s about how to learn to acknowledge and challenge our own preconceived notions. Where it comes from, how its internalised and develops our own core beliefs relating to our body and how we then interact with the world. I chat to Danni Gordon the founder of...
Episode Eleven: Swimming, Stereotypes And Society. A Film Called Blacks Can´t Swim
July 15, 2020 18:49 - 55 minutes - 61.5 MBEd Accura, Filmmaker, hip hop star, podcast host, co-founder of the Black Swimming Association has just released his first film/documentary. A Film Called Blacks Can´t Swim. Inspired to teach the world to Swim, Ed is on a mission to enable Black Asian and Minority ethnic people to get into the water. There is a disproportionate amount of non-swimmers in the BAME communities. Sport England found that 95% of black adults and 80% of black children don't swim. Swimming is my passion, the...
Episode Ten: YOUR SPACE OR MINE, Creative Lockdown COVID-19
June 15, 2020 12:10 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBThis episode is in collaboration with The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festivals online 2020 program . I meet and chat with Emma Jayne Park off cultured mongrel whom along with Emily Furneaux and other artists have brought us Eat, Move, Sleep, repeat. This is a creative collaboration that was developed as a response to Covid-19 as part of the festival. Emma as part of her practice, curates spaces and in this conversation we examine how those spaces effect us physically, emotionally and ho...
Episode Nine: BE THE CHANGE. Mindful Lockdown, COVID-19
May 13, 2020 12:26 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBLockdown has brought an endless amount of emotional and physical reactions and our mental health is being put under enormous strain. I was curious in how mindfulness practices could be part of our coping strategies. Dr Bill Paterson has many roles but one of these is mindfulness coach. He kindly took the time to chat to me about how mindfulness practices can help in coping with lockdown. We chatted remotely but managed to cover some varied topics, such as how structure in our days may h...
Episode Eight: Landlocked Lockdown. COVID-19
May 02, 2020 15:23 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBCovid-19 has brought group and organised swimming to a standstill, with a lot of people using outdoor swimming to maintain physical and mental health I wondered how this was impacting on the swimming community In this episode I chat remotely to Jenny Waring who is a ex competitive outdoor swimmer, her love for the sea and lochs in Scotland means she is regularly out swimming with Fife Wild Swimmers. We chat about how lockdown has effected our swimming and Jenny's return to the NHS during t...
Episode Seven: There must be something in the water
March 16, 2020 21:02 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBIn this episode I meet, swim, chat and share cake with Itamar Nitzan the founder of Dip your Toes in Wild Swimming Facebook page. Itamar´s page educates, inspires and welcomes new swimmers and old to his experiences and insights in outdoor swimming. One of the things he offers free of charge is to buddy an individual or small group who want to swim. With that in mine I invited along my wonderful friend Eilidh, who doubled up as co host and Guinea Pig. We took a dip at Portebello, the fo...
Episode Six: HAPPY DOGS, CanineConcern
February 11, 2020 21:33 - 47 minutes - 53.2 MBDo you Love dogs? Does your dog help you through difficult times and is by your side when you need them? In this episode I am joined by Janet Jones from CanineConcern Scotland, which recruits and manages the Therapet service in Edinburgh. Dogs of all breeds and their handlers visit places such as nursing homes, resisdental homes, hospitals, universities, airports, prisons, schools. They run schemes such as Reading with Dogs, Paws against Stress and Pets not pests. Janet and I share some ...
Episode Five, Multiple Sclerosis, My New Normal
December 12, 2019 15:01 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBThis is part two of of wild swimming, health and healing. In this episode you are taken to Loch Lomond where half of the podcast was recorded in the water whilst Louise and I had a refreshing dip. Louise was diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis three years ago at the age of 25. She opens up about the impact of this relapse and remittent disease has had on her life. How it has effected her physical and mental health. She takes us through what first lead her to being diagnosed. We discuss sympt...
Episode Four: Out of Sight Out of Mind, BEING HEARD
November 13, 2019 14:13 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBOut of Sight out of Mind is an art exhibition at Edinburghs summer hall. A combination of 180 peoples work. What makes this unique is all the exhibitors have had an experience of mental illness. Following my visit I got chat to three of this years artists and in this episode you get to hear how we caught up in the gallery over some cake. The podcast covers some fascinating subjects, sexuality, societal labels, transgender phobia, boxes, mental illness, trauma and self esteem. This po...
Episode Three: Where the Wild Things Are
October 07, 2019 19:18 - 48 minutes - 44 MBThis podcast is a journey into the deep and the first of a mini series about wild swimming health and healing. I was curious if wild swimming could improve health and recovery and well being, if it created a greater sense of community and connection for people. I decided to take a birds eye view or maybe in this case a seals so I got my swimmers on and get in the water. I met up with some members of Fife Wild swimmers for a cold plunge at Silversands beach in late September. I was s...
Episode Two: Bake It Out
July 30, 2019 08:22 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBIn this episode I had the pleasure of meeting chatting and baking with Debra Riddel of Breadshare Community Bakery, Edinburgh. Debra and her husband Geoff set up Breadshare social enterprise after leaving their careers in IT. I was curious if baking can improve your mental and physical well being, it has worked for me and in this podcast I take you through how I used it for dealing with panic and anxiety. Debra took me on a journey of education and inspiration, about making all things s...
Episode One: Body Talk
July 30, 2019 08:22 - 37 minutes - 38.5 MBA New podcast unpacking issues of Mental Health and well being, spirituality, race, social justice and culture. Conversations with cake and compassion. From the ordinary to the extraordinary stories of amazing people. The first episode was produced for Mental Health Awareness week, which is led by the Mental Health Foundation and this years theme was Body Image. Nina spoke to Tamar, an Edinburgh based belly dancer, teacher, choreographer and performer about body acceptance.