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The Loop with Lucy
by Lucy Dahill
We are back in style, new conversations to keep you in the loop of what’s important in life. Grass roots important. We talk health and wellbeing in a really practical way. Added to that we have 10 years worth of conversations with experts to tune into as well. All curated into some excellent playlists for you. Get in touch!
Episodes
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Being Inconvenient - No more 'fitting-in'
Rebekah Ranking helps us explore how safe we feel to be inconvenient and look at ways to do this in a safe way. Some of the many take-aways for me have been... recognising that anxiety is not always bad, learning to be intentional online can make a difference, and there are ways to be…
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Are my eyes deceiving me?
My guest today is Carmin Hall who works as an Optometrist in Northern NSW and opens our eyes to the potent part our sight plays in our communication. Our body is incredible - never is it not communicating Topics covered in this podcast include... Seeing what we want to see / anticipate seeing...
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Is our struggle fighting cycles?
This short follows on from the webinar about the Struggle with the Juggle and the timing of what we struggle with in the juggle. What if everything has a timing… a cycle. Could the tension we feel be where we extend something beyond or ahead of its allocated cycle?
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The Loop with Lucy is back!
Hello listeners, We are back with a new sound and some spunk and flare to go with it! Loads of interviews on the way with topics that have a common theme of connection… yep that ol’ chestnut. I also talk about some up and coming webinars - First one is in a few weeks! It is called the Struggle…
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Learning To Communicate Again
Meet Alan - he has had throat cancer, which not only changed the way he communicated but changed his relationship with the sound that came out of his mouth. No longer were words just words, they had resonance and meaning.
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Connectedness In End Of Life Care
Meet Melinda and Sally who supported Philip Hills pass over feeling complete. Why is it so rare, why are we afraid to have those conversations that clearly help everyone settle? This audio certainly takes us to and beyond those questions. Get a cup of tea, find a peaceful spot and join us for…
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Breast Cancer Changed My Life - For The Better
Meet Michelle who had a 2 month whirlwind from diagnosis to major surgery and how she made the whole experience one that was flipped from being traumatic to deeply healing. For Michelle - she felt 'these things don't just happen'. She learnt how to ask for help and accept support. Paying…
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Living Beyond An Eating Disorder
Meet Kylie who shares her experience of healing from a severe eating disorder. A key moment in the audio...."I realised there was nothing wrong with me". One for parents, practitioners and anyone who doesn't believe true healing is possible.
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Bullying - Starting the conversation
Sometimes you just need to start the conversation on a tricky topic. Jean Gamble talks about bullying and the role family play in this area. Time to sit up and listen as the foundations we lay in adolescence can play out in other areas of our children's life as they grow up.
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The poison of comparison
Why is it so natural to go into comparison? Are we measured from such an early age that we have forgotten how to adore each other just for being who we are rather than for what we do or achieve? Annette, Gabe and Lucy tease out what is behind this pernicious virus that seems to permeate way too...
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Unravelling Uniqueness - Neurodiversity
The year 7-9 Community Problem Solving Team from Ravenswood Girls School have, once again, offered a unique insight into the challenges of Neurodiversity in a school environment. Abi, Millie, Mia and Grace talk us through their project and what their team of 11 have done for the competition this...
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Hiding Behind A Mask
How often do we hide our true selves behind a mask of humour? All too often it gets us out of a crippling shyness or give us an opportunity to be more popular... Meet Philip Hills - a man unafraid to wear a tiara
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Valuing Our Cleaners
There is a very particular skill brought to cleaning that leaves an imprint in the home which forms the foundation for how we live and move in that space. Do we appreciate that about the work we do, or the work we employ someone else to do for us? Check out this interview with Mary-Louise, June…
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Do we know how to be Human?
After the last post on death and dying - I felt there was an important question to ask - do we know how to live?! Let's be honest, there are handbooks for everything and most of them tell us we are have much to learn, so when Cynthia Hickman a psychotherapist wrote a 'Handbook for Being Human' I...
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Death And Dying
Are we ready to have a 'maturing' conversation about death and dying that considers the concept of loss and grief and how everyone's experience does not need to be the same? Jasmine, Deborah and Anita offer different lived experiences with one common theme - they did not own the person who passed…
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Helen - What you put in is what you get out
Helen offers an insight into the generation for whom the internet has been their 'normal'. Her parents introduced her to online dating and yet it was certainly not all smooth sailing. What Helen offers is an insight into manipulation, what you put in reflects what you get out and meeting the…
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Hannah - Embrace being you
Hannah has been in the online dating scene for 20 years - she started young! She now has so much to share about what to watch out for and how to embrace all it has to offer
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Marika - This is who I am
Let me introduce you to Marika, a woman who brings a steadiness to the discussion about online dating, she normalises the practicals of talking to people and when that moment arrives to be exclusive and commit to seeing where the relationship might go. She is also a stunning representation of...
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Susan Sharing All Your Gorgeousness
Susan who had never done anything like this before, "it was like starting all over again”. She offers her experience as an older person and takes some of the mystery out of it. Clearly, Susan would encourage us all to have a go at something new because even though something isn’t quite right and...
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Trudy From Mr High To Mr Right
Trudy started online dating at 40. She had experienced all the comments about having to meet someone, about feeling like it was never going to happen. Then she got speaking to a local farmer! Trudy went from Mr High to Mr Right with wonderful support and a little bit of coaching from family and...
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Rosie - Don't lower your standards for anyone
Meet Rosie, her strengths are honesty and directness. Why mess around, why look or settle for scraps, still falling for feeling 'not worthy' of love?
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Shelley - Intergrity Is A Must
Meet Shelley who has a slightly different perspective to dating sites. She has learnt a lot about herself, but also about the games, the manipulation and the resulting hurts that is rife within the online dating world. If we don't want to play the games it may be worth remembering that each swipe...
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Online Dating and Navigating Exclusivity
We think we want to 'play the field' and hang out to see if we get a better offer but I am not so sure this is the way to go! From what I am hearing from these women it is about setting a standard knowing your self-worth way before you meet someone. Then there is no question of whether you will…
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Finishing High School Parent Perspective
Each of our children are very different and no one size fits all. This Big Little Kids audio is from parents who have parented their teens through the challenge of the end of High School. Here they offer back some experience that may support you to embrace what is on offer in those last years....
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Boundaries, Parties, Lying and Me
Sometimes we need to take a moment to understand what is behind the rebellion. Stay in the Loop with Lucy takes a moment here with Big Little Kids to consider how we can view our behaviour in childhood as an adult. Does the child inside ever really go or is there a big little kid in all of us...
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Understanding your gamer
Rather than judge the Gamer in your home, perhaps it is about understanding them. Leigh has been that gamer, and now reflects on her addiction from 'the other side' where the compulsion loop, she so simply describes, has no hold on her. There are some great top tips on how to address an…
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Finding Your Voice
Young people have much to say but how do they find an outlet for that expression without being intimidated by doing something new or meeting new people? Meet Eloise who started to see the benefits of the Social Justice team in year 9 at school and now sees it as part of who she is and her purpose...
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A Womans Flow
Has a woman's cycle been reduced to knowledge about how to, or how not to, get pregnant? Is there more to understand about the cycles of our body and could our body's cycles be as expressive as natures cycles but we are missing the text messages?! Join Sara Harris from Living Stillness and…
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Parenting Under Pressure
We have all these pictures about how to be the perfect parent and they can all come to a rather messy, puss filled head when constrained by lockdown and restrictions in our physical space. Yet how we approach it can have a massive impact on outcomes. What if it is a wonderful opportunity to…
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I lost my job and I found myself
Two men, two very different experiences but one outcome - a new focus on life with all to live for. Meet Greg and Sam, both are out of work but embracing life at home with the family and discovering that their wives have been working much harder than they gave them credit for!
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What's going on with Ryan?
We can see children as too small to know any better, or we can see them as equals who have much to offer us by reflection. Ryan Adams shares with great tenderness how his behaviour could have been described as 'rambunctious' and perhaps 'difficult' but to him, he was trying to work out who he was...
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Losing Your Job Not Yourself
This interview considers the challenges faced by 3 women who had successful careers and who lost their jobs during COVID-19. Rather than shut them down, it has opened them up to countless opportunities. Join Rachel, Anna and Carmen share how this has opened their eyes to so much more than their…
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Ease - Unease - Disease
Lockdown can be seen in two ways - our worst nightmare, or an opportunity to re-evaluate, make changes, set new foundations and then take that back out into the world again. Are you ready to consider if the lenses through which you have viewed your life to date are the lenses that best reflect…
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Criticism in Families Part 2
It is not so simple to clock criticism and just stop it, sometimes we need to take a step back an understand why it is there and why it is our 'go-to' when things don't go our way. Annette and Gabrielle offer an insight into ho we can take a moment to stop, observe and read before we react and…
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Criticism in Families Part 1
Do we clock how much we criticise each other in families? Have we just taken it as our normal and therefore it is just expected and accepted and if that is the case, does it really matter? Join Annette, Gabrielle and Lucy as they consider how criticism plays out in families.
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Self-care in Health-care
How ready are we to talk about the current state of play in nursing and health care? Is it possible that this world-wide crisis has highlighted patterns of behaviour that have been taken as normal for many years? In this episode Lucy talks to two nurses and two health care practitioners - all of...
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The Sleep Connection
Do we underestimate how important sleep is to our mental and physical health? Lisa Maltman from The Sleep Connection shares the importance of sleep in so many aspects of our lives.
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When High School is just not right
Have you worried about your child just not 'getting it' at school? Have you watched them disengage and lose faith in education and themselves? Perhaps they are more suited to a work environment. Listen to one parent who realised they needed to do something to support their young person and how…
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Kate Chorley Living with Quality and Cancer
In cancer care there is always a question of quality versus quantity. Kate has come to her own decision about what she would like and it is likely to ask you to consider your approach to living quality of life is over quantity as well as to question what being healthy actually means.
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Growing From Stillbrith
In this intimate interview with Lucy Dahill, Jodie Matthews shares her intimate experience with pregnancy, loss and growth. In sharing her story she offers others support for not only how to deal with the loss of a child, but also how to support someone who has lost a child.
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The Honest Truth
Truth and honesty are foundational tenets of most school and workplace mission statements, but I would ask, how can we consider what the truth is if we don't first know how to be honest with ourselves or others? Gabrielle Caplice, Annette Baker and Lucy Dahill unravel why we may not want to be...
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Business Beyond Profit - the Humanitix Model
Take two young men, just starting out their career but already successful, one idea and passion for 'being part of the change in this world' and then add an awesome Head of Operations and bingo you have socially conscious ethical business Humanitix, an organisation making waves in the online...
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Are We Underestimating The Heart?
How much do we underestimate the heart? Is it just part of our function or can it and does it offer so much more that can support us as we live our lives? Phil Shirvington has worked with a dynamic group of teachers to bring the heart, stillness and questioning into practice through Wisdom, Life...
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The Scourge Of Shame
How much does shame influence the decisions we make and the behaviours we have taken as our normal? Jean Gamble talks us through shame and regret and teases out the different types of shame - toxic, functional and vicarious shame. What if there is a way to re-frame our thinking? Get snug as a bug...
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Juggle Of Study And Life
The show today is an up close and personal with study – the stress, the anxiety, the need – and perhaps most importantly the why. Do we have a reason for doing our study, is it ours and therefore has a purpose? If so, can we support ourselves to ensure we keep the study in balance with our other...
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ABC Of Boards
What is it like being a Board Member in diverse industries? Is there a challenge with gender diversity and is there a big difference between for profit and not-for-profit boards? These are just a few of the questions covered in this interview with Teresa Dyson, an experienced Board Director, as…
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Writing Magic
Mandy Newman and Lydia Hamilton have put their hat firmly in the ring to raise the standard and quality of writing in our world. Listen to their focus of building confidence in children’s skills to value their voices and the magic that is just waiting to be expressed in written form.
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The Debilitating Scourge of Fear
Hold onto your hats because this is a corker! How much does fear influence our upbringing and the foundations of our decision making and relationships? We come to the conclusion...alot! What is so supportive about this program is how we can so easily support each other to recognise how this fear…
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Farmers Father's Day
Do we consider the high stress jobs our fathers do? Perhaps we could consider farming as one of those high pressure jobs. This show introduces us to Chris Iffland who shares first hand what life is like as a 5th generation farmer. Also hear Neil McWhannell talk about the Rotary Club initiative to...
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The Marriage Of Esoteric And Conventional Medicine
If the way we live contributes to our health, then that puts us firmly in the drivers seat to be able to contribute to our medicine as well. Eunice Minford shares with Lucy Dahill what an empowering marriage Esoteric and Conventional Medicine make and how it considers the doctor and the patient's...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We are back in style, new conversations to keep you in the loop of what’s important in life. Grass roots important. We talk health and wellbeing in a really practical way. Added to that we have 10 years worth of conversations with experts to tune into as well. All curated into some excellent playlists for you. Get in touch!
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