Potential Psychology
145 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsExplore what it is to be human and how to fulfil your potential.
Australian psychologist Ellen Jackson interviews experts in the mind, brain, happiness, well-being and high performance. Our conversations are easy and engaging, insightful and fun. Listen in to learn more about living well, mastering your mind and maximising the joy in your life.
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Don't Blame The Reptilian Brain with Dr. Sarah McKay
October 13, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBToday, speaker, media personality, and Australian-based neuroscientist Dr. Sarah McKay, returns to our podcast to talk about our emotions, our brain, some misconceptions about reptiles and why we're not beholden to emotional and behavioural triggers. In this information packed episode, we get our geek on about: •What we're getting wrong if we talk about 'lizard brains' and emotional triggers •Why getting the scientific fundamentals right is vital when talking about our brain and behaviour ...
Facing Your Fears and Learning to Grow with Dr Patricia Zurita Ona
September 29, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBMy guest today is a licensed clinical psychologist from sunny California. Dr Patricia Zurita Ona, fondly known as Dr. Z, is talking to us about overcoming the challenges of fear-based responses, an experience she knows well. Growing up in Bolivia in the midst of a dictatorship, she understood at a early age what it meant to be shaped by fear. This lead to her passionately pursuing her practice, helping others to overcome anxiety and trauma. In our conversation, Dr Z and I explore the question...
A quick catch up: The latest news from Potential Psychology HQ
September 15, 2020 20:00 - 13 minutes - 13.6 MBAfter taking a long-ish hiatus from the Potential Psychology Podcast to focus on introspection, self-care, and exploring available opportunities in the midst of a pandemic, I am back with inspiring guests and engaging episodes for you. But first, let's get up to speed with what's happening on PPHQ: •What happened on Potential Psychology since our last episode (if you missed it, catch it here: Finding Antifragility in a World of Failure with Dr Paige Williams) went on air. •Exploring deepe...
Finding Antifragility in a World Afraid of Failure
July 14, 2020 20:00 - 47 minutes - 44.6 MB"As complex adaptive systems, it's actually struggle that helps us thrive." I am so pleased to be joined in this episode by Dr. Paige Williams to chat about her work in learning and teaching others about resilience and becoming 'antifragile'. Paige is an incredible author who just released her new book, Becoming AntiFragile: Learning to Thrive Through Disruption and Challenge. In her career, Paige has honed her focus on resilience and helps others to become antifragile leaders. She is both ...
Adapting to Change with Professor Andrew Martin
June 23, 2020 21:45 - 50 minutes - 47.7 MBToday I am joined by Andrew Martin, Scientia Professor, Professor of Educational Psychology, and Co-Chair of the Educational Psychology Research Group in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia. In addition to his many accolades, Andrew has passionately dedicated his career to studying educational psychology. It's through this study that Andrew has gained a remarkable understanding of the best ways to learn, grow and adapt. His insight is enlightening and infor...
Self Care Is The New Health Care With Suzy Reading
June 02, 2020 22:10 - 50 minutes - 47.3 MB"Sometimes, the true act of self-care is the thing you least feel like doing. It's tying up incompletions. It's looking at what's depleting you and taking action on that. Sometimes, it's addressing areas of pain and discomfort" - Suzy Reading, psychologist & author I'm thrilled to welcome Suzy Reading back to the show today to discuss the topic of self-care. Suzy is an accomplished Chartered Psychologist that has devoted her practice to stress management, wellbeing, and shifting to a healt...
Screen Time Strategies In A Global Pandemic with Martine Oglethorpe
May 20, 2020 00:45 - 58 minutes - 54.7 MB"There are some fundamental principles that parents want kids to follow: respect themselves, respect other people, and, in a nutshell, if they're doing those things, they'll be able to enjoy themselves and stay safe wherever they go online." - Martine Oglethorpe Life lately has been unusual. With school, work and socialising conducted from home, the pressure has dialled up for juggling parents. Where do 'screen time' rules fit in? What's reasonable device use right now? And how do we adapt w...
The Perks and Pitfalls of Working from Home with Dr Joe Sweeney
April 01, 2020 05:50 - 1 hour - 59 MBIs working from home working for you? Are you running staff meetings from your kitchen? Home schooling in the lounge? Have you discovered your partner's 'work persona' - a side you've never seen before? And is your dining table still there, beneath the laptops, monitors, notebooks and files? Working from home, once the ultimate office-worker perk, is rapidly becoming a major wellbeing challenge as we're thrust into a new world, largely unprepared. In today's conversation I ask Dr Joe Sweene...
Keeping Well When We're Stressed and Anxious with Ellen Jackson
March 25, 2020 03:30 - 51 minutes - 48 MBHello wonderful humans. I'm mixing things up for this episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast. I had planned an episode on Personality and How It Drives What We Do for this week on the back of our fun webinar with some members of the PP community last Monday morning. But given the state of uncertainty we're in right now due to this new coronavirus, COVID-19 and its impact on almost every facet of life, I've parked that and decided to share some tips that might help us face some of our m...
Telling Important Stories with Naomi Hunter and Jeremy Hunter
March 18, 2020 00:10 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBIn the midst of COVID-19 uncertainty and the anxiety it is provoking it can do the heart and mind good to be distracted with positive stories of people doing good in our world. We need that right now. My guests for this episode are Naomi Hunter and Jeremy Hunter, the co-Managing Directors of Empowering Resources, a boutique publisher of children's books that encourage meaningful conversations between kids and their trusted adults. Their books handle tough topics with nurturing and understan...
Prioritising Positivity with Dr Suzy Green
March 10, 2020 19:00 - 57 minutes - 53.4 MBI'm delighted to have Dr Suzy Green back on the show today. Suzy was one of my lecturers when I completed the Masters of Coaching Psychology at The University of Sydney (some time ago now) and today I'm proud to call her a colleague. I'm also thrilled to be introducing you to her new book, The Positivity Prescription: A six week wellbeing program based on the science of positive psychology. Over the past 20 years Suzy has asserted herself as a pioneer of Positive Psychology. She is the found...
Bringing Behaviour to a Bigger World with Ryan O'Donnell
March 03, 2020 20:06 - 55 minutes - 52 MBJoining me on the show for this episode is science communicator and content creator Ryan O'Donnell, a.k.a RyanO. Ryan wakes up daily trying to fill the gap between the amazing science of behavior and the billions of people that it could impact for the better. He does this by creating content for behavioral science enthusiasts via The Daily BA on YouTube, The Controversial Exchange and CHATTcon while preparing for his next big venture. (He gives us a sneak peak into that during our podcast cha...
Building a Bigger Life with Thomas Igeme
February 25, 2020 19:00 - 50 minutes - 47.6 MBHow do we learn, grow and fulfil our potential today and into the future? My guest for today's conversation arrived in the United States from Kenya at the age of 18 with $273 to his name and a mission to survive. As he tells it, he is LGBTQ and grew up in a world in which his identity either did not exist or was punishable by death or a lifetime in prison. Upon his arrival in the US he was granted a diversity scholarship to attend college which led to both a Bachelor and Masters Degree from...
Getting Curious About Jobs and the Future with Tess Walton
February 18, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBI was introduced to Tess Walton at an event late in 2019 and we clicked straight away. We got talking about her specialist topic - the future of work - and I quickly realised that this was a podcast episode in the making. It took us a little while to co-ordinate schedules but we connected last week for this amazing conversation which weaves and wends its way through a whole lot of topics all focused on the future. •How do we create the future? •What could it look like? •What skills and w...
Finding Joy Through Exertion with Sanjay Rawal
February 11, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes - 48.3 MBToday on the show we're talking a bit about exercise, a bit about spirituality, a bit about indigenous cultures and quite a bit about a very select group of people who choose to run around and around an extended city block in New York City for not just days but weeks at a time! My guest is Sanjay Rawal, an award winning documentary maker based in New York City. We're talking about his film 3100: Run and Become, a beautiful and intriguing documentary about the Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Rac...
Bushfires, Kids and Staying Safe Through Trauma with Psychologist Karen Young
February 04, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBThe one in which I share my family's brush with bushfires on New Years Eve 2019 and then explore the effects of calamity and catastrophe on children with psychologist and author Karen Young. Welcome back to the Potential Psychology Podcast and our eighth season of the show. It's great to be back. We've had a turbulent start to 2020 in Australia. We're no strangers to bushfire but as of as of 14 January 2020, fires this season have burnt an estimated 186,000 square kilometres (72,000 square ...
The Summer Series: Living Well and Having Impact with Dr Adrian Medhurst
January 31, 2020 09:52 - 58 minutes - 54.6 MBThis episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast is brought to you by PAFOW and their upcoming Sydney event, PAFOW20 Sydney: Honoring the Human Experience in the Age of AI & Perpetual Change Welcome back. Our Summer Series - in which we are revisiting favourite past episodes - is drawing to a close. We will be back next week with new interviews and new guests and another big year. Today we revisit my conversation with Dr Adrian Medhurst. Adrian is a psychologist, a speaker, an author and th...
The Summer Series: Revisiting Flipping the Switch to Positive Parenting with Professor Lea Waters
January 21, 2020 21:30 - 59 minutes - 55.7 MBIt's week three of our Summer Series of the Potential Psychology Podcast. While the team and I are busy behind the scenes prepping Season 8 of the show, we're taking a look back at some of our favourite episodes. And this quote encapsulates the essence of today's show.... 'Don't waste a lot of time and money pushing kids in directions they don't want to go. Instead, find out what weirdness they excel at and encourage them to do that. Then get out of the way' - Seth Godin My guest is Profes...
The Summer Series: Revisiting Sleeping Well with Dr Kate Sprecher
January 15, 2020 01:30 - 49 minutes - 46.6 MBIt's week two of our Summer Series of the Potential Psychology Podcast. Over the next few weeks while the team and I have a short break and get started behind the scenes on the next super cool series of the show, we're revisiting some of our favourite past episodes. Today we are talking about one of my favourite topics - Sleep! My guest is Dr Kate Sprecher and she is speaking to me from Colorado, in the United States, where she a is post-doctoral researcher in the Sleep and Chronobiology Lab...
The Summer Series: Revisiting Motivation As We Prepare for 2020
January 05, 2020 00:30 - 51 minutes - 48 MBOur Summer Series We're back after a slight delay due to the Australian bushfires. My family and I were caught up in the bushfire drama on the NSW South Coast where we were holidaying with family (15 adults, 7 kids and a dog) on New Year's Eve 2019. We're all safe and home now but it was a tense and difficult day as we prepared to defend my sister-in-law's home and our lives. Thankfully the worst we experienced was heat, smoke, anxiety and exhaustion as our little pocket of the coast, wh...
Merrymaking with Emma and Carla Papas
December 17, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBToday we meet Emma and Carla Papas, The Merrymaker Sisters. These real-life sisters are Yoga, Pilates and Meditation teachers, entrepreneurs, podcasters, authors, social media stars and, as I discover in this interview, flourishing personified. They quit their full time government desk jobs in July 2014 to pursue their passion of bringing health and happiness to the lives of others. Since then they've created the #1 mobile recipe App Get Merry, published the best selling healthy cookbooks M...
Conquering Procrastination with Ellen Jackson
December 10, 2019 20:30 - 40 minutes - 38.2 MBHands up if you procrastinate. Okay, hands down. Of course you procrastinate. You're human aren't you? The question is, are you one of the 80 per cent who procrastinate over some tasks, some of the time? Or the 20 per cent who procrastinate over most tasks, most of the time? And why do you procrastinate? What is procrastination from a psychological point of view? (It might not be what you think it is) How are feelings involved? And how do you stop? I'm exploring all this and more in this ...
Tales from the Valley of Death with Rachel Menzies
December 03, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBTales from the Valley of Death: Reflections from psychotherapy on the fear of death. It sounds morbid but it's not. It's fascinating. Tales introduces us to the complex lives of 10 individuals who have been crippled by death-related fears and related existential issues. Their stories are told through interviews with their psychotherapist, internationally renowned clinical psychologist Professor Ross Menzies. It's a captivating read. In this episode Rachel and I explore these stories and dis...
Building a Workplace in Which We Thrive with Associate Professor Peggy Kern
November 27, 2019 00:15 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBWhat is it like to thrive and flourish at work? Not just survive, but really have the opportunity to be your best self? My guest for this episode is Dr Peggy Kern. Peggy is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Positive Psychology in the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education. (She's also a speaker at the Wellbeing Evidence and Horizons Conference, our fabulous podcast partner, in Melbourne on 28 & 29 April 2020.) Peggy is an expert in workplace thriving and in this con...
Thriving Through Struggle and Suffering with Dr Sarah Sarkis
November 19, 2019 19:00 - 58 minutes - 54.8 MBThis episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast is brought to you by the Wellbeing Evidence and Horizons Conference, Australia's leading multi-disciplinary, evidence-based wellbeing and resilience conference. April 28 & 29, 2020. See you there! What do you do when life gets tough? Do you retreat? Avoid? Get angry? Self medicate? Exercise your need for control? Life throws us all a curve ball eventually and in this episode of the podcast my guest suggests that the remedy for life's difficu...
Building Your Best Day with Professor Tim Olds
November 13, 2019 01:35 - 45 minutes - 42.5 MBIf we have the same 24 hours as Beyonce, how should we use them if we want to be happy and well? Do we pour our time into work? Do we sacrifice sleep for exercise? What trade-offs do we make? Because I don't care who you are, you can't fit 30 hours into 24! My guest for this episode is Professor Tim Olds from the University of South Australia. Tim is a time-use epidemiologist and the first of our guests who will be speaking at the upcoming Wellbeing Evidence and Horizons Conference - a 2 da...
Psychologists, Horses and Helping with Naomi Rossthorn
November 05, 2019 19:00 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBThis episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast is brought to you by the Wellbeing Evidence and Horizons Conference, Australia's leading multi-disciplinary, evidence-based wellbeing and resilience conference. April 28 & 29, 2020. See you there! What can we, as humans, learn from horses to boost our wellbeing and overcome struggle? My guest for this episode is Naomi Rossthorn. Naomi is a psychologist and the Clinical Director of Harnessing Wellness, a psychological counselling service loca...
Future Possibilities in Mental Health with Dr Jarrod White
October 29, 2019 19:00 - 59 minutes - 55.5 MBThis episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast is brought to you by the Wellbeing Evidence and Horizons Conference, Australia's leading multi-disciplinary, evidence-based wellbeing and resilience conference. April 28 & 29, 2020. See you there! Do you think in one dimension? Or two dimensions? Or maybe even three? I kick off this episode of the podcast with some reflection on Tim Urban's article, The Thinking Ladder from Wait But Why and his insight into multidimensional thinking - the wha...
Motivating Yourself to Exercise with Dr Gordon Spence
October 22, 2019 19:00 - 51 minutes - 48.4 MBThis episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast is brought to you by the Wellbeing Evidence and Horizons Conference, Australia's leading multi-disciplinary, evidence-based wellbeing and resilience conference. April 28 & 29, 2020. See you there! Welcome back to the Potential Psychology Podcast and our seventh season of the show. Seven seasons! And it's only getting better from here. Today my guest is Dr Gordon Spence. Gordon and I studied together at The University of Sydney in the early 20...
The Portal to Transformation with Tom Cronin
September 24, 2019 20:00 - 46 minutes - 43.9 MBMy guest today is passionate about reducing stress and chaos in people's lives. Tom Cronin knows first-hand the power of meditation in overcoming mental health issues and the potential this ancient practice has for personal healing and human transformation. Tom is a meditation teacher, a film maker, an international speaker and founder of The Stillness Project - a global movement to inspire one billion people to sit in stillness daily. He is also the author of six books for adults and one c...
Hacking Your Life Admin for Family Harmony with Mia Northrop and Dinah Rowe-Roberts
September 17, 2019 20:00 - 54 minutes - 50.8 MBMy guests on the podcast today are the living embodiment of 'testing and learning', particularly when it comes to life admin - everything from getting your mobile phone plan and contract sorted out to planning family holidays to filing your tax return. Mia Northrop and Dinah Rowe-Roberts are the co-hosts of the Life Admin Life Hacks Podcast. Their mission is to help you save time, money and achieve a little more peace of mind and household harmony. Mia gets a thrill when they unearth proces...
Positive Conversations about Aged Care with Dr Julie Bajic Smith
September 10, 2019 20:00 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MB"Australian men over 85 have the highest rate of suicide in the country" Wellbeing in older adults. It's a conversation we don't often have, but we need to. My guest today is Dr Julie Bajic-Smith, an aged care psychology consultant and mentor, and she is passionate about the need to shape a better future for everyone in aged care. For five years Julie travelled to aged care homes and facilities to provide treatment and face-to-face intervention for the elderly. Her career took a turn when s...
Calming Stormy Minds with Ariel Garten
September 04, 2019 02:00 - 55 minutes - 51.8 MBImagine controlling the world directly with your mind. That was my guest's dream - and she and colleagues brought that dream to life. Ariel Garten has a fascinating and eclectic background in psychotherapy, art, fashion design, neuroscience, technology and start ups. She is a co-Founder of Interaxon, the developers of Muse, a brain sensing headband that translates your mental activity into the guiding sounds of weather to help you find focused calm. Busy mind? Stormy weather. Calm mind? Peac...
The Life and Trials of an Early Career Psychologist with Glen Tanner
August 27, 2019 20:00 - 43 minutes - 41.2 MBHow does a psychologist become a psychologist? What does the training involve? How long does it take? And could YOU last the distance? In this episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast I'm joined by Glen Tanner, a recently registered Clinical Psychologist and we're talking about life in the early years of this fascinating career. Glen and I discuss: •The path to become a psychologist in 2019. (Did you know that it takes 8 years?) •What led Glen to psychology as his second career? •Wh...
A Year Long Adventure in Brain Hacking with James Garrett
August 19, 2019 20:00 - 57 minutes - 53.9 MBIf you could upgrade yourself to 'You Version 2.0' what would that look like? Who would you be? What would you do? And how would you get there? Our guest for this episode is pursuing these very questions in a year long adventure in brain hacking. James Garrett, psychologist, former academic, entrepreneur and fellow podcaster has embarked on The Deep Change Project in 2019, exploring neuro technology, neuroplasticity and personal change to uncover the very best of James Garrett Version 2.0 J...
Why Everything You Know About Motivation Is Wrong
August 14, 2019 11:45 - 51 minutes - 48.4 MBMy first ever SOLO episode and we're talking motivation. Where does it come from? How do we create it in ourselves and others? And why is everything you know or think about motivation wrong? Motivation is one of my favourite topics. I have two public workshops coming up in Ballarat exploring Six Simple Steps to an Engaged, Motivated Team, which I've cheekily subtitled 'Why everything you know about motivation is wrong'. Both workshops have now sold out I've had several people ask if I'm plan...
Revisiting Brain By Design with James Garrett
August 07, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBI have been talking to several clients recently about productivity, attention, focus, our expectations of ourselves and the feelings that come along with juggling all of the things - work, parenting, health, self-care, friendships, family, goals and plans. Worry, overwhelm, frustration and impatience are recurring themes. So I thought it timely to revisit a conversation that has helped me with all of these things. In Season 2 of the Potential Psychology Podcast I interviewed James Garrett, ...
Connecting You with the World of Positive Psychology & the IPPA World Congress
July 31, 2019 03:05 - 50 minutes - 47.6 MBJoin me behind the scenes at the IPPA 6th World Congress on Positive Psychology in Melbourne, Australia If you follow Potential Psychology on social media you might have seen me out and about with my portable recorder, Potential shirt and matching red headphones at the International Positive Psychology Association's 6th World Congress on Positive Psychology in July 2019. The World Congress was a four day event at which world's positive psychology, happiness and wellbeing experts descended o...
Fears, Phobias and Obsessions with Dr Celin Gelgec
July 23, 2019 20:00 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MB'If the 5 trillion spiders in the Netherlands took to eating humans rather than insects, they'd consume all Dutch people in just three days.' Not a nice thought, especially if you have a spider phobia but that was the Tweet that led me to today's guest and our discussion of phobias. My guest is Dr Celin Gelgec, a clinical psychologist based in Melbourne, who specialises in anxiety and all of the different ways in which it manifests and challenges us, including phobias! Celin is a Senior Cl...
A Kidnapped Teacher Talks About Health After Hurt with Rob Hunter
July 15, 2019 20:00 - 54 minutes - 51 MBImagine this. You're 20 years old and a newly minted teacher with sole responsibility for a small rural primary school and the nine students who attend each day. It's your ninth day at work and although it starts in the same way as days one to eight, it will end very differently - with you and your nine students chained and captive in a remote camp site. This is the true (crime) story of my guest, Rob Hunter. We're exploring what happened on that day 42 years ago and the impact that it has h...
Should Parents Really Worry About Video Games? with Research Professor Peter Gray
June 19, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB'It's 'digital heroin': How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies' That was the NY Post headline that sent the internet into meltdown in 2016. The article went on to state that 'your kid's brain on Minecraft looks like a brain on drugs' and every parent who has ever experienced a pang of guilt watching their child immersed in a screen-based game felt that guilt engulf them. But is it true? Are video and screen-based games as terrifying as the headlines suggest? In this episode of the P...
Revisiting Digital Parenting with Martine Oglethorpe
June 11, 2019 20:00 - 49 minutes - 46.6 MBWe're doing something a little different on the podcast today. For the first time, we are revisiting a past episode. In fact it's episode two of the podcast - my interview with parenting and e-safety expert Martine Oglethorpe from The Modern Parent. Have you noticed a resurgence of interest in the mainstream media lately in video games and their impact on kids? Specifically, the instances and issues surrounding video gaming as an addiction or disorder? In late May of 2019 the World Health ...
Judges, Magistrates, Scrutiny and Mental Health with Lawyer and Psychologist Carly Schrever
June 05, 2019 05:20 - 56 minutes - 53.1 MBHave you imagined what it's like to be a judge presiding over a court? To maintain calm in the court room, absorb and synthesise complex information, listen to sometimes deeply difficult stories and make decisions that affect the lives of others- and at times our society - in critical ways? These are just some of the tasks facing our judicial officers - our judges and magistrates. They are tasks that can have a significant impact on their stress and well being. My guest for this episode of ...
The Talking Cure, Transformation and Being a Little Bit Mad with Professor Gillian Straker & Dr Jacqui Winship
May 28, 2019 20:00 - 52 minutes - 49.5 MBWhat do you know about therapy? Did the producers of The Sopranos get it right? And are we all a little bit mad? The answer is 'yes' according to my guests today, both highly experienced Sydney-based psychotherapists and clinical psychologists. Professor Gillian Straker and Dr Jacqui Winship join me to talk about their new book, 'The Talking Cure: Normal people, their hidden struggles and the life-changing power of therapy' in which they introduce us first to relational psychotherapy thr...
Winners at the 2019 Australian Podcast Awards
May 21, 2019 20:00 - 21 minutes - 21.1 MBNEWS We're taking a break from regular programming for a special mini episode celebrating the winners at the 2019 Australian Podcast Awards! Australians were on tenterhooks on Saturday 18 May 2019 as we awaited news of the winners and losers. Yes we had a Federal Election but more importantly, it was the 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. Mr Potential Psychology and I headed north to Sydney to join in the festivities and fun, mingle with audio royalty and learn a little more about what's grea...
The Power of Music to Boost Your Mood with Dr Sandra Garrido
May 14, 2019 23:00 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MBMusic and our moods are intrinsically linked. We seek sad songs when we're blue, upbeat vibes to work out, maybe classical for a bit of zen. But how does this work? What happens in your brain when you listen to music? And how can you use music strategically to boost your mood and your performance? My guest today is Dr Sandra Garrido. Sandra is a pianist, a violinist, an author, a mum and researcher. She started studying law but found that she didn't really like arguing with people for a l...
Keeping Well as an 'Allergy Parent' with Callie Mackenzie
May 07, 2019 20:00 - 55 minutes - 52.2 MBWith an increasing number of children in the western world diagnosed with life threatening food allergies, the parents of these kids can find themselves overwhelmed, and anxious, with their well being and mental health under threat. My guest for this conversation knows this from lived experience. When her third child, Caleb, was just four months old he was diagnosed with multiple food allergies. At that moment Callie Mackenzie and her family were plunged into a world in which nothing felt sa...
Stress and Self Care for Our Junior Doctors with Dr Rebekah Hoffman
April 30, 2019 20:00 - 56 minutes - 53.2 MBOur doctors help to keep us well, but who looks after the doctors when they're struggling with stress, exhaustion and overwhelm? My guest today is Dr Rebekah Hoffman, a GP (General Practitioner) in regional NSW, a University lecturer and a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong. As a junior doctor Rebekah began to struggle with the effects of long hours, limited sleep and a heavy workload. Following a holiday during which she realised that she was no longer the person she wanted to be...
Thriving Through Cancer with Dr Jodie Fleming
April 22, 2019 20:01 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBWelcome back to the Potential Psychology Podcast. My guest today once specialised in psycho-oncology, the human side of cancer. In 2010 at the age of 37 she received the terrifying news that she had not one but two primary breast cancers. This became a frightening opportunity to practice what she preaches. The practitioner became the patient. Dr Jodie Fleming has recounted her story in a touching memoir, 'A Hole in My Genes' published in February 2019. In this episode we talk about: •He...
The Resilience Paradox with Dr Brock Bastian
April 16, 2019 20:00 - 54 minutes - 51 MBWe're back for Season 5 and we have some exiting news! The Potential Psychology Podcast is up for an award. I'll give you the low down in this episode. My guest for the first episode of this season is Associate Professor Brock Bastian from the University of Melbourne and we're asking the question, 'Are we getting resilience wrong?' Resilience is a hot topic right now, with programs designed to build resilience featuring on the training schedules of our schools and workplaces. But what do w...