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MindMatters
by Sneha Suresh
MindMatters: Perspectives is about bringing you conversations from individuals around the world sharing their stories and experiences of life.We're trying to create a space to have the necessary but sometimes hard conversations on mental health, community and life.Conversation and information are an integral part of our lives and our growth, and with that very same hopeIncredible people from all over the globe are sharing their perspective with you.mindmattersinitiative.com/
Episodes
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Hey Everyone…. (Again)
Hey everyone, I know it’s been a while and I explain it on this. If you can take the time to listen to this, I’d really appreciate it. Just know that even though I went silent, I never stopped believing in this project or what we stand for. Kindness over all. I took a step back because I needed…
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Perspectives: KK Foster
KK is an incredible creator and the lover of all things art. Joining me from the United States of America, KK shares her experience with mental health. She narrates her story of how she understood her mental health and what she has done to help navigate it. It was during this portion of the chat,...
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Perspectives: R2D2
This one’s a special one. In this powerful, vulnerable and hilarious heart to heart with easily 2 of the kindest, warmest and inspiring individuals that I have the privilege of calling my friends, D2 and Randi dive deep into conversations of their journeys with mental health, the power of…
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Perspectives: Prarthana
HAPPY PRIDE! This month we have queer guests on the podcast but please know not every discussion is about queerness and this is because we don’t believe Pride is only for the month of June but it’s all the freaking time! But today’s guest is in fact here to tell us her story of being queer in a...
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Perspectives: Melati Wijsen
Melati Wijsen is an inspiring changemaker, leader and speaker and joins us on Perspectives to share her journey with mental health and activism. As someone who has been on the frontlines from the young age of 12, from founding Bye Bye Plastics, filming Bigger than Us and launching Youthtopia and...
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Perspectives: Rachel Graff
Rachel Graff is an incredible wedding photographer joining us from the US, but she is also someone who shares an experience with host Sneha that she has bravely joined MindMatters to share more about. Sibling loss. Last October Rachel lost her sister in an unexpected manner and it changed the...
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A Step Towards Help with Anna Mortimer
Anna joins us from Italy and in this chat we talk about MindField, an incredible platform to access online therapy all over the world and therapy services available in different languages. Anna also shares her own journey into this field and Anna also sheds light on behavioral traits we often…
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A Step Towards Help with Shriya Vashisht
Shriya is joining us from Singapore and in this chat she gives us insights of how positive emotions can help us in our lives. What are some of the coping mechanisms one can integrate when faced with difficult times. She also gives us her experiences in therapy with regards to handling couple...
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A Step Towards Help with Justin Duwe
Justin is joining us from the UK and in this chat we understand addiction in depth and what are signs to look for, and if addiction can always be noticed through signs. Justin sheds light on the intersection of Mental health and Addiction, the kind of treatments that are available for addiction…
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A Step Towards Help with Lou Etheridge
Lou joins us from the UK and talks to us about her work with the non-profit MindOut. An organization dedicated to working to support and uplift the LGBTQIA+ Community. Lou also works closely with a Suicide Survivors Program and was kind enough to have a very eye-opening discussion on suicide,...
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A Step Towards Help with Hilke Engels
Hilke joins us from the Netherlands and tells us about Positive Psychology and solution focused therapy and how she uses images and imagination in her practice. Hilke also conducts a small exercise that the listeners can follow while listening! She also takes the time to answer questions related…
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Perspectives: Laura
Laura joins us from Germany to chat with us about Kintsugi, an incredible short film highlighting the importance of mental health and this beautiful depiction of it. We talk about the role of art and creativity in mental health and what the process was in making this movie and why it’s called...
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A Step Towards Help with Nikki Cohen
Nikki joins us from the USA and in this chat we break down the important and sometimes confusing terms in this sphere. We have discussions understanding the signs of PTSD, how to cope with COVID induced stress, supporting loved ones who are on the front lines and dealing with religious parents...
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Perspectives: Catarina Rivera
Catarina Rivera is a disability activist and DEI Consultant. She takes the time to join mindmatters to tell us about her journey, the concept of ablelism and how to recognize it in our lives. We chat about the importance of inclusivity and adaptability in all aspects of life ,social media…
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A Step Towards Help with Aisha Shabazz
Aisha joins us from the USA and in this chat we delve into the conversation around mental health in the Black Community and the stigma that persists. Aisha also highlights the importance of decolonization of therapy and the role of Racial justice in this field. We talk about the impact of...
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Perspectives: Mike Papale
Mike is an incredibly passionate human being with an incredible story and was kind enough to join me on MM to share it. Mike went into cardiac arrest at the age of 17 and since then his life has changed. He talks about his lifestyle changes, how this event affected his mental health and how this...
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A Step Towards Help with Dr. Camilla Gamba
Dr. Camilla joins us from Italy and in this chat we discuss how to find the right fit for ourselves in terms of therapists- what to look for and what the factors are to keep a lookout for. We have a very eye opening discussion around trauma, how it lives in our body and how coping mechanisms...
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Perspectives: Andrea Somer
Andrea is a Health coach and certified personal trainer who joins us to tell us about the relationship between mental and physical health and how much the two influence one another. We delve into the role of meditation in her own life and what practices have worked for her and that she’s shared...
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A Step Towards Help with Jen Mak
Jen joins us from the UK and in this chat we delve into the complicated and messy feelings of grief. We understand the non-linearity of this emotion and the different ways it affects us and our mental health. We also delve into understanding what is complex grief. Jen also takes the time to…
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Perspectives: Curtis Galloway
Curtis joins me to have an incredibly vulnerable chat. When he was 16 years old he was subjected to conversion therapy; an experience he was later able to use to ban conversion therapy in his home State. Curtis has now taken his activism to the next level and founded the Conversion Therapy…
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A Step Towards Help with Christopher Brown
Christopher joins us from the USA and in this chat we delve into the conversation around the stigma on men’s mental health and specifically in the Black community. We breakdown what racial trauma is and what culturally responsive therapy is and why it’s so important in this time and age....
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Perspectives: Jenna Muri-Rosenthal
Jenna is this incredible individual that has brought together speech therapy, stroke recovery and crossfit together. Jenna tells us about Fit to Function, an incredible initiative that functional fitness with cognitive rehabilitation in a 1:1 and community-focused environment that benefits...
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A Step Towards Help with Rebecca Troyaborg
Rebecca is joining us from Germany and in this chat we decode how assessments work, what and how Cognitive Behaviour therapy is and works. We also understand the concept of ADHD and how the perception of it has changed over the last 15 years. With what the current times of the world is, we’re all...
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A Step Towards Help with Kyd Shepherd
Kyd is joining us from France and in this chat we cover the intersection of mental health and disability. Understanding how disability affects the individual's mental health and the friends and family members too. We understand big terms in this field like “Psychoanalytic psychopathology” in the...
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Perspectives: Darren Calhoun
Darren is a conversation starter, speaker, artist and activist who’s taken the time to chat with us on some very important and vulnerable experiences of his life. Darren talks to us about his experience with Conversion Therapy and how it was growing up as a black, gay man. He shares his journey...
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A Step Towards Help with Dr. Tanaya Chatterjee
Dr. Tanaya joins us from Canada! Working with clients from racialized and the LGBTQ+ community is a big part of Dr. Tanaya’s practice. She works with adults with various mental health problems including depression, anxiety, bipolar, OCD, panic, PTSD, personality disorder. We cover a range of…
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Perspectives: Charlie Kramer
Charlie is a blind disability coach and a very talented musician! He's created an incredible experience overlapping the two called "Singing in the Dark Immersion" and he tells us more about the experience on our chat, he was also so kind to announce that anyone wanting to take part in this...
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A Step Towards Help with Leanne Nelson
Leanne is joining us from the UK. Therapy is not a one size fits all experience and so we’re making sure we bring you information on all the kinds available! Leanne is joining us to shed light on a very specific niche in the therapy sphere, which is spiritual psychotherapy. We understand how...
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Perspectives: Amy Fiedler
Communication is such a powerful tool to regulate emotions and such a heavy influencer on our mental health. In this chat with Amy Fiedler, we delve into her therapeutic practice- her approach and style. We also talk about healthy boundaries, how to set them up and why it’s so important to have...
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A Step Towards Help with Aika Marchant
Aika joins us from USA and in this chat we talk about how trauma effects us as humans and deconstruct the misconception that trauma is caused only by “big events”. We understand the importance and role of communication in relationships and the cultural implications of mental health and seeking…
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Perspectives: Lena Dirscherl
Lena (they/them) is an incredible artist using their art to create healing in this world. Their work heavily focuses on rewriting the narrative of what “ideal bodies” are. They also highlight the intersection of the queer community and body positivity. Lena recently came to the realization that...
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A Step Towards Help with Dr. Thoraiya K
Dr. T joins us from Dubai, UAE and we start this series off with understanding what the difference between the often interchanged terms like psychologist, psychotherapist and if you’ve ever wondered what the difference between these titles are, look no further. Dr. T tells us what to look for…
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Perspectives: Isaias Hernandez
Isaias Hernandez, the QueerBrownVegan, was so kind as to take some time to join me on MindMatters and we delved into such important conversations. Isaias tells us his journey to becoming the Climate educator he is today and what put him on this journey. Isaias also highlights the…
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Perspectives: D2/Dawn
I introduce D2 as one of the kindest and most considerate individuals I've ever met and I will forever defend this statement. In this chat I get to dive into some very important conversations on mental health and being a parent, their approach to tackling these conversations, how the Covid...
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Perspectives: Steph Margeth and Emy Taliana
I cannot stress enough the power of creativity and it's role in the collective healing of this world we so deeply need. In part 2 with these incredible individuals, we delve into the discussion of community and what it means to them and where they found and how they experience it. We talk about…
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Perspectives: Emy Taliana and Steph Margeth
It's a special chat for a special day. Sometimes the universe really does things that you can not explain as anything other than a cosmic alignment of stars. I met Emy and Steph through a series of events that have basically changed my life and I cannot even begin to describe how much I…
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Perspectives: Sarah JS
I can't tell you how much I love talking to Sarah! So excited to release part 2 of this incredibly inspiring and special chat. In this installment we've dived into why it's so important to feel our feelings and the role feelings play in our lives, why it's so incredibly pertinent that we complete...
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Perspectives: Sarah JS
Sarah and I were lucky to meet through a project we did together and from the first meet, I knew I wanted her on perspectives and I cannot even describe how excited I was when she said yes! Sarah is the executive director of the incredible organization, Good Grief Network and also all round...
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Perspectives: Meg Walker
Meg and I had such a good time chatting, we couldn't just do 1 episode! So tune in to listen to part 2 where we have open, authentic and candid talks about our relationship to nature and what it means to us. Our experiences with meditation, especially with our PTSD and how Vipassana Meditation...
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Perspectives: Meg Walker
Meg is one the most helpful, authentic and genuine human beings I've ever met and I'm so glad to be able to call her my friend. Meg is the host of the incredible My Kind of People Podcast and graciously accepted my invitation to be on MindMatters but did suggest we mix things up a bit... Listen…
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Perspectives: Madisen Nguyen
Mental health conversations still have a long way to go and in some cultures, we're miles behind. The Asian culture is definitely one of those. Madisen joined us for a chat opening up about her mental health journey and why it was important for them to share their story and to take action to stop...
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Perspectives: Steph Margeth
In today's chat with this extraordinary human being, we talk about the Steph's journey with their mental health, the journey they've taken to embrace their true, authentic self and come into their queerness. We chatted about queer mental health and what we need more of and why community and…
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Perspectives: Maverick Lumen
In this incredibly honest and open discussion, Maverick (they/them) opens about their journey with queerness, their gender identity and experience with Top Surgery. They share their journey with gender dysphoria and how getting the surgery and their reaction to the surgery wasn't what they…
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Perspectives: Kady Siuda
Kady isn’t a stranger to mental health but she also never shies away from talking about her story and her journey to raise awareness. Kady has lived with Bipolar and been in therapy for years. She opens up about her experiences with Therapy as well. Kady also recently came out as Bisexual and…
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Perspectives: Lindsey Raye Ward
Felt very fitting to end Mental Health Awareness Month with this discussion. Personally this was one of the most impactful conversations I’ve had in a long time. Lindsey is using MindMatters to open up about her 16 year journey with mental health. She is opening up about her journey and her...
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Perspectives: Yash Bhandari
Yash is someone I've never seen hesitate to talk about emotions and have open discussions on topics like this. I've personally had conversations with him about toxic masculinity as well and it's refreshing to see his point of view and see someone comfortable talking about intense and emotional...
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Perspectives: Lerato Phalatse
Lerato is a passionate and dedicated human working hard to breakdown the stigma around mental health. After her own personal journey she began Mental Matters. She encourages those who have a voice to use it. She encourages you to use it for those who no longer have one, and for those still...
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Perspectives: Matisse DuPont
Each individual has their own experience with their mental health and that's the point of perspectives. Matisse joined MindMatters to share their perspective. They have taken the time to breakdown for us the the overlap of how the psychology behind LGBTQIA+ community and how it formed. We had a...
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Perspectives: Darsana Ravindran
Darshana shares her experience with mental health that eventually led her to seeking treatment and how she had to deal with her family and society's reaction to the same. A final year student currently specializing in Psychology, also reveals how her journey helped her choose her career and how…
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Perspectives: Lauren Spigelmyer
Lauren is the founder of The Behavior Hub and UPenn Professor. She was gracious enough to come on the podcast and discuss the importance of managing stress, the direct bearing it has on our mental health and ways to cope with them. Understanding how our mind works, how are head and heart tend to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
MindMatters: Perspectives is about bringing you conversations from individuals around the world sharing their stories and experiences of life.We're trying to create a space to have the necessary but sometimes hard conversations on mental health, community and life.Conversation and information are an integral part of our lives and our growth, and with that very same hopeIncredible people from all over the globe are sharing their perspective with you.mindmattersinitiative.com/
HOSTED BY
Sneha Suresh
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