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This week's podcast is presented by Stephen and Jacqueline. We hear from:Big Sister Helen, who has predictions about several of Ambridge's couples;Grellan, a first time caller-innerer - Hurrah! - who has a prediction relating to George;Love Jazzer's Singing who is worried by George's lack of remorse;Elizabeth, who is impressed with FallonRos, things these stories are coming along very nicely Carolynne, who thought Thursday's episode was very satisfactory Ambridge Olwyn, another first time callerinerer, hurrah! who wants to know something about CliveKatherine: who found the sex talk too cringy Tracy in California who thought Thursday's episode was the best for ages….We also have an email from Gillian.Plus: we have the Week in Ambridge from Suey, and a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook group from Witherspoon.Please call into the show using this link:www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Or send us a voicenote via WhatsApp on: +44 7810 012 881 (07810012 881 if in the UK) – Open the WhatsApp app, key in the number and click on the microphone icon.Or email us at dumteedum@mail.comHow to leave a review on Apple podcasts: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/podcasts/pod5facd9d70/mac***Also Sprach Zarathustra licenceCreative Commons ► Attribution 3.0 Unported ► CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..."You are free to use, remix, transform, and build upon the materialfor any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit."Conducted byPhilip Milman ► https://pmmusic.pro/Funded ByLudwig ► / ludwigahgren Schlatt ► / jschlattlive COMPOSED BY / @officialphilman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Spirit School! In this special segment, I'm thrilled to introduce you to my dear friend Carolyn, also known as the Comedium. Carolyn has been a part of Spirit School from the very beginning, from being one of my first online mentees to attending both of our transformative retreats. In this episode, we take a heartfelt look at her journey over the past four years. Carolyn shares how she found me, her path through energy healing, and how she has blended her skills as a hairstylist with mediumship to create a unique practice. We also delve into her incredible sense of humor, which she has seamlessly woven into her spiritual work. Get ready to be inspired by her story, and stay tuned for a special treat—a clip from her standup routine on mediumship. https://www.instagram.com/thecomedium/ https://www.instagram.com/ccthesensitive/  Come hang out in The Spirit School Collective with us! https://www.squamishmedium.com/spiritschoolcollective 

This week's podcast is presented by Stephen and Jacqueline. We hear from:· Tracy, who is talking about the Grundys' finances and has hopes for the downfall of George,· Love Jazzers Singing who calls whilst on a dog walk;· Chloe, a first time callerinerer who is a second generation Dumteedummer;· Globe-Trotting Richard, who is impressed by this week's acting and the script writers.· Carolynne, from Ottawa, a first time callerinerer, who agrees with Susan's tough love.· Gillian, who has great sound this week;· Christine from Kilcreggan who gives us a topical insert;· Witherspoon, who has enjoyed this week in Ambridge, even Harry;· And finally Paul from Olney, who remembers a previous tree surgery storyline.Plus: we have the Week in Ambridge by Suey, a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook group from Witherspoon and the Tweets of the Week from Theo.Please call into the show using this link:www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Or send us a voicenote via WhatsApp on: +44 7810 012 881 (07810012 881 if in the UK) – Open the WhatsApp app, key in the number and click on the microphone icon.Or email us at dumteedum@mail.comHow to leave a review on Apple podcasts: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/podcasts/pod5facd9d70/macFeedback on BBC Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1WbP92b6YbpP9j4mwwbtc9Q/contact-us***Also Sprach Zarathustra licenceCreative Commons ► Attribution 3.0 Unported ► CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..."You are free to use, remix, transform, and build upon the materialfor any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit."Conducted byPhilip Milman ► https://pmmusic.pro/Funded ByLudwig ► / ludwigahgren Schlatt ► / jschlattlive COMPOSED BY / @officialphilman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1900s, American families had an average of four magazine subscriptions. Today, magazines with educational content are making a comeback with the help of visionaries like Carolynne Hill of Hillside Market. Find Carolynne Website: www.thehillsidemarket.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/thehillsidemarket Kody's Links Website: www.thehomesteadeducation.com Curriculum: www.homesteadsciencecurriculum.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/homestead_education  

Have you ever dreamed of having a beautiful and affordable greenhouse? Check out the DIY greenhouse plans from Hillside Market. #homesteading #homesteadingforbeginners #greenhouse #gardening  In this interview with Carolynne Hill we talk about the ins and outs of building and having a greenhouse.  This is episode 101 of the Homesteading for Beginners podcast. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast!  View the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/BjR4juQnNtc Check out the Hillside Market designs here: DIY Greenhouses with Carolynne Hill from Hillside Market Website: https://thehillsidemarket.com Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/TheHillsideMarket?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1428233164&from_page=listing Carolynne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehillsidemarket?igsh=ZDkxcWQ1YTY4aTZ2 New to homesteading? Get the free Homesteading for Beginners checklist: https://www.healthyhomesteading.com/checklist/ Get the Homesteading for Beginner's Starter Kit: https://www.homesteadincomeplan.com/homesteadstart Mona's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farmer_mona

Indigenous people's relationship to land forms an “ontological belonging.” Their spiritual beliefs connect them to the land and to all things of nature. Carolynne Crawley is the founder of Msit No'kmaq, co-founder of Turtle Protectors, and a Forest Therapy Guide. She spoke at The Walrus Talks Nature on March 19, 2024.This episode of The Conversation Piece features content from Manulife presents The Walrus Talks Nature, supported by Trans Canada Trail.To register for upcoming events happening online or in a city near you, and to catch up on our archive of The Walrus Talks, visit thewalrus.ca/events.And subscribe to The Walrus Events newsletter for updates and announcements, at thewalrus.ca/newsletters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meeka Marsolais & Katrina Prescott speak with Carolynne Mahood, Principal of On Your Own Time, and fully accredited HR Professional. We unravel the evolving concepts or work and retirement beyond age 55. With over 45 years of HR expertise, Carolynne shares invaluable insights into the changing nature of retirement. Discover how individuals are redefining this life stage, seeking purpose, and contributing their skills in innovative ways. Carolynne provides practical advice for those contemplating a career shift post-55. We explore the shifting dynamics of retirement, including the desire for ongoing personal and professional growth. Whether you're an individual entering this phase, already enjoying retirement, or supporting someone on this journey, this episode offers concise and actionable perspectives on thriving in the dynamic landscape beyond 55.

Carolynne Collyer's spiritual journey began around age 7 when she began sensing spirit in a new home. Since then she has explored many modalities including astrology, numerology, yoga, energy healing, oracle card reading and psychic mediumship. For the past three years Carolynne's been honing these abilities with mentor Danielle Searanke aka The Squamish Medium, and have recently began sharing the humor in some of these mystical moments through stand up comedy in hopes of bringing healing through laughter. Join Jess and Carolynne in this upbeat and playful conversation that includes a deep dive into personal experiences and reflections on womb healing, mediumship, energy work, and spiritual development. They also explore the transformative effects of womb healing beyond physical gender, the evolution of mediumship abilities, and the interconnectedness of energy healing and spiritual growth. The conversations touch on finding mentors, receiving spirit messages, surrendering control in readings, and the profound impacts of connecting with spirits in various professions. Enjoy! Have a listen to my reading with Carolynne here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/43-womb-awakening-a-live-reading-with-jessica-meils/id1663998537?i=1000651064886 Follow Carolynne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccthesensitive?igsh=MWpqaW95MWtncXkxag== https://www.instagram.com/thecomedium?igsh=b3l2dDRra3FoYTg= Thank you to all who left the podcast a review and kind words. Your support means the world to me. If you would like to support the show, please do so by subscribing, leave a 5 star review and share with a friend or loved one.  STAY CONNECTED: Follow me on Instagram: @peoplecallmejess  Work with me + Website: www.jessicameils.com  TAGS: Spiritual Medium, Mediumship, Mediumship development, Psychic Medium, Psychic development, Psychic Reader, Intuitive Healing, Intuitive Healer, Self Development, Spiritual Development, Ancestral Healing, Womb Healing, Womb Shamanism, Death Doula, Lightworker, Shadow work, Astrology --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jessica-meils1/message

This episode is all about triathlons and learning how to get started. Register and find out more at their website https://multisportcanada.com. About MultiSport Canada MultiSport Canada is an event management company that produces Triathlon, Duathlon, Running and Cycling events in Ontario. Since it's inception in 2002, the MultiSport Canada Triathlon Series has been the fastest growing Triathlon Series in North America. In 2010, MultiSport Canada became the largest 100% Canadian owned Triathlon Series in the world. MultiSport Canada also produces over forty (40) events under contract to various profit and not-for-profit corporations with a very simply philosophy; create events with superior race execution and safety standards where the customer's experience is the top priority. About Carolynne Simons Carolynne joins Multisport Canada with a passion for growing the fitness community. Since 2013, you may have seen her on the race course or engaging with participants as a Triathlon Series Ambassador. She believes that customers and communications are key in her role during events and behind the scenes. Carolynne brings 14 years of health and wellness industry experience as director of Stay Fit Plans Inc, where she partnered with reputable organizations such as Curves for Women, The Cleveland Clinic, and Novo Nordisk Canada. Her focus on building organizational wellness strategies and specialized healthcare networks helped develop her ability to connect people. Carolynne was formerly a certified strength and conditioning specialist and NCCP coach. Her background in varsity athletics and combined studies in business operations management and health science from The University of Western Ontario fueled an entrepreneurial mindset. About Jason Vurma Jason combines a unique ability to see the interdependent aspects of an event and how they all need to come together. This ability, combined with his firm commitment to lead by example from the front, truly sets him apart in the world of Event Management. After racing his first Olympic Distance Triathlon at age 16 and his first Half Ironman at age 19, Jason competed as a top age-group racer into his mid-twenties with three Ironman finishes to his credit. Jason then turned to off-road events such as Adventure Racing, 24hr Solo Mountain Biking and long-distance Cross Country Skiing. It was during this time that Jason joined John Salt at MultiSport Canada and jumped head-first into the world of event management. Now, nearly 15 years later, John and Jason have built-up MultiSport Canada into the largest Triathlon Series in the country with a reputation for unmatched logistics while always putting their customer's needs first. Jason has also had the pleasure of working-on some other large-scale events acting as the: Race Director for the Joe's Team Triathlon; Event Director for Tough Mudder (Toronto 2013); Course Director for Centurion Cycling & EGames (2013 & 2014); Course Director for the Sporting Life 10K; Course Director for the RBC Race for the Kids and, most recently, Event Director for the Highway of Heroes Ride supporting Wounded Warriors Canada. Through these experiences, Jason has come to work with some amazing colleagues, staff, suppliers and volunteers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode Jess shares a live reading with a supporter of the podcast with fellow Medium and Healer, Carolynne Collyer. Carolynne's has a deep desire to journey with Jess in a Womb Healing, focussing on relationships. As you listen to this podcast take note if any of the themes resonate with you. You too will receive the healing of energy medicine. Womb journey's often lead to Womb Awakening's! Carolynne also shares her reflections and personal shares in the weeks following her session with Jess. If you have been curious about Womb Healings, this episode is for you. Stay tuned for Part 2. We'll be talking more with Carolynne about her love for demonstration of mediumship! Thank you to all who left the podcast a review and kind words. Your support means the world to me. If you would like to support the show, please do so by subscribing, leave a 5 star review and share with a friend or loved one. STAY CONNECTED: Follow me on Instagram: @peoplecallmejess Work with me + Website: www.jessicameils.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jessica-meils1/message TAGS: Spiritual Medium, Mediumship, Mediumship development, Psychic Medium, Psychic development, Psychic Reader, Intuitive Healing, Intuitive Healer, Self Development, Spiritual Development, Ancestral Healing, Womb Healing, Womb Shamanism, Death Doula, Lightworker, Shadow work, Astrology --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jessica-meils1/message

Carolynne Scoffield, known as the "Savvy Socialite," has made her mark in Calgary's marketing sphere, defying the setbacks of a serious facial injury sustained due to a Rottweiler attack to become the Marketing Director at Arlington Street Investments. A decade-long career path through social media has culminated in a widely followed blog, amassing over 180,000 hits at its zenith. Now, she applies her seasoned skills in SEO, analytics, and strategic marketing campaigns across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. Equally esteemed in academia, Carolynne boasts a Business Administration Diploma with a focus on Digital Marketing from Bow Valley College. Her academic prowess is underscored by a second-place victory in the Dean's Alberta Business Case Competition and the Jason Lang Scholarship award. Concurrently, she's the entrepreneur behind Savvy Socialite, where she empowers small businesses to flourish on social media through community-focused organic growth techniques. Above her professional triumphs, Carolynne treasures motherhood as her crowning achievement. Her daughter represents the pinnacle of joy and inspiration, serving as a pillar of strength and motivation in Carolynne's life, driving her to be an unstoppable force in her industry. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada's economy. To support Canada's businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest #entrepreneur podcasts and news? Subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter

On 27 February, Emma Barnett spoke to Zoe Clark-Coates, who runs the baby loss and bereavement charity The Mariposa Trust, about her campaign for baby loss certificates. They were introduced in England in February for parents who've lost a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy. Emma shares her own story and also speaks to a woman who's decided it's not for her, and another who applied straight away and has now received four baby loss certificates. Have you ever had a nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right? A gut reaction or a tingly spidey-like sense that tells you something is off? Author of Emotional Labour, Rose Hackman joins Emma to explain why we need to stop calling it 'women's intuition'. Carolynne Hunter cares for her 14-year-old daughter who has severe cerebral palsy. She spoke out about her rising household costs back in 2022 and Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet paid her energy bill. Carolynne joins Emma to give an update on her life since then. It's been announced that a breast cancer drug - Pembrolizumab, sold under the brand name Keytruda - could help thousands more women than previously thought. Emma finds out more from Dr Liz O'Riordan, retired breast surgeon who has had breast cancer herself, twice.Presented by Emma Barnett Producer Louise Corley Studio Engineer: Phil Lander

Dnese se budeme bavit o únosu mladého páru. Vše nasvědčovalo tomu, že Juliana a Carolynne unesl satanistický kult, ale ukázalo se, že ač šlo o únos, všemu bylo jinak. A motiv? Šílený! 

This week, Naomi covers the story of a couple lost in the wilds of Australia for almost a week, suspected of being kidnapped by a satanic cult.Then Amber covers missing friend and family member, Larry Riegel.If you know anything regarding Larry's case, please contact the Yakima County Sheriff's Office at (509) 574-2500 or the Yakima County Crime Stoppers at (800) 248-TIPS. You can leave a tip anonymously. For this episode, Amber was drinking Apothic Red.  Naomi pulled her sources from:Crime Zone - The Twist Will Leave You Speechlesshttps://www.yourtango.com/julian-buchwald-and-carolynne-watsonhttps://www.theage.com.au/missing-couple-planned-marriagehttps://www.thefreelibrary.com/Satanic+kidnaphttps://medium.com/abducted-by-a-satanic-culthttps://medium.com/kidnapping-turned-international-hunthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles Amber pulled her sources from:www.seattletimes.comLarry Riegel-Missing | FacebookWhat Happened to LarryRiegel?Missing: Lawrence Riegel | Yakima, WA | UncoveredMissing Yakima man'sgirlfriend charged with fraud and perjury | HeraldNet.comLawrence JaySupport the showGo check out our patreon page athttps://www.patreon.com/crimewineandchaosFor more information about Crime, Wine & Chaos, or to simply reach out and say "hi,"https://www.crimewineandchaos.comhttps://www.facebook.com/crimewineandchaoshttps://www.instagram.com/crimewineandchaospodhttps://twitter.com/crimewinechaosCrime, Wine & Chaos is produced by 8th Direction Records.Amber is the vocalist, and attempted mandolin player in the band, Tin Foil Top Hat. You can find more of her work on all of the music streaming platforms or athttps://www.tinfoiltophat.comNaomi is a Co-Founder and head of xDev at Shrapnel Studio. You can follow her work at www.shrapnel.com You can also follow her on Twitter @MissGnomers

Spooky & Scorpio season calls for some spooky spirit stories with C.C The Sensitive.   Carolynne is an Psychic Medium and an Energy Healer Carolynne shares her very first experience at an early age with spirit while living in a haunted house.  During this episode, we touch on all the various spooky subjects such as ouija boards (Do not use a Ouija board), favourite scary movies, feeling into earth bound spirits, ghost tours any more!   We finish as always with not so rapid fire questions!   Connect with Carolynne Below:   Ccthesensitive Instagram   Connect with Michelle Lindsay Michelle Lindsay's Website Michelle Lindsay Instagram Reiki with Michelle Angel reading with Michelle Energy combo session Reiki + Spirit messages with Michelle 1:1 Mentorship Waitlist  

Four hours northwest of the central city of Melbourne, located in the southeast region of the continent, lies the vast and protected 1.6 million-acre Alpine National Park. Known as the adventure lovers' dream, the park's mountains make up part of what is known as the Great Dividing Range and offer stunning views of towering ridges, lush wildflower valleys, and majestic waterfalls. Plenty of camping, skiing, and hiking can be enjoyed if one is so inclined.However excellent the travel brochure for the Australian Alps may sound, locals understand that the landscape can also be a nightmare for people who are not adequately prepared. Victoria is home to at least four venomous snakes and any number of bees, wasps, ticks, and spiders. So when a local farmer driving to town saw two half-naked, sunburnt people stumble on the road before him, he realized they must have been lost in the park and immediately stopped to help them. The couple, seventeen-year-old Carolynne Watson and twenty-two-year-old Julian Buchwald were taken to Buchan police station. The story that unfolded was the stuff of nightmares, harrowing.Join Cam and Jen as they discuss 'Terror in the Bushland.'This episode of OTCP is sponsored by Rothy's. We love their products and know you will, too! Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/OTCP.Come see Cam and Jen at True Crime & Paranormal Podcast Festival on August 25-27, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Go to https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/ and use code OTCP for discounted tickets!Thank you to our team that helped make this episode possible:Edward October for the Listener Discretion. Check out his YouTube ChannelNico at We Talk of Dreams for editing and theme music.Lauretta Allen for research and writing.Sources:https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/nailed-bailed-jailed-then-derailed-the-bush-plot-that-cost-a-man-his-country-20160427-gofuxd.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUC4dWpdWmYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLzD7IrZq70https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Satanic+kidnap+'a+fake'.-a0176720333https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angleshttps://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/sex-ruse-kidnapper-julian-mathias-buchwald-loses-appeal/news-story/f3f792553f00af165af676a69aae5495https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/true-crime-scene/twisted-romeos-darren-saltmarsh-and-julian-buchwald-turned-the-search-for-love-to-pure-terror/news-story/e85b3f7b43b48aea7ceade6803605aa6https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/nailed-bailed-jailed-then-derailed-the-bush-plot-that-cost-a-man-his-country-20160427-gofuxd.htmlhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-25/gippsland-appeals-kidnap-sentence/2855750https://www.smh.com.au/national/longer-jail-term-for-notsogreat-escape-20091021-h91b.htmlhttps://www.theage.com.au/national/missing-couple-planned-marriage-at-years-end-20080309-ge6tnh.htmlhttps://www.thefreelibrary.com/Satanic+kidnap+'a+fake'.-a0176720333https://www.google.com/maps/place/Budgeree+VIC+3870,+Australia/@-38.4334681,145.8701512,9z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b297043ed4be9df:0x40579a430a05b40!8m2!3d-38.4255528!4d146.360725!16s%2Fg%2F1tdyft2yhttps://www.victorianplaces.com.au/budgereehttps://www.facebook.com/budgeree/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill,_Victoriahttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Order_of_Nine_Angleshttps://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/true-crime-scene/twisted-romeos-darren-saltmarsh-and-julian-buchwald-turned-the-search-for-love-to-pure-terror/news-story/e85b3f7b43b48aea7ceade6803605aa6https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/sentence-increased-for-grave-digging-kidnapper-20131018-2vrrk.htmlhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6575317/How-police-rescued-kidnap-victim-pushed-shallow-grave-abductor.htmlhttps://www.9news.com.au/national/bizarre-vic-kidnap-plotter-sent-to-jail/def9568c-7016-4861-a52a-9bhttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/accused-targeted-students-in-bizarre-shallow-grave-ransom-bid--court-hears/news-story/0d4464b54ee449cd98296d6eaa5a02bfb5a0cbc3ahttps://www.smh.com.au/national/bizarre-vic-kidnap-plotter-sent-to-jail-20130503-2ix6m.html

A master plan comes before the design — but what comes before the master plan? Museum planning consultant Carolynne Harris joins me to discuss The Questions You Have to Ask Before the Project. Guest Bio: Carolynne Harris, Founder and Principal, Carolynne Harris ConsultingWith over 30 years of experience in the museum field, including over 10 years of senior-level experience at the Smithsonian Institution and Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Carolynne's non-profit consulting business specializes in developing emerging museums, renovations, and expansions from early visioning through implementation, and strategic planning for non-profits. Carolynne has been published in Curator, served on the board of the Pennsylvania Museum Association and the Denver Commission for Cultural Affairs, and is currently the Board Secretary of the National Association of Museum Exhibitions (NAME). Carolynne has an MA in Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts from Emory University and a BA in Anthropology from The University of Virginia. Praxis Museum Projects GroupCarolynne is also a member of Praxis Museum Projects Group, a "network of professionals, each of whom brings an expertise to the process of creating exhibitions and cultural experiences in collaboration with exhibit designers, architects, and museums". Members of the Praxis group are a special focus of the first episodes of this podcast. Show Links: carolynneharris@gmail.comhttps://www.carolynneharris.com/https://www.praxisexhibits.com/ - - - - - Like the episode? Subscribe to the newsletter! Making the Museum is also a very short daily newsletter on exhibition planning for museum leaders, exhibition teams and visitor experience professionals. Learn more, read past editions, and subscribe here:https://www.makingthemuseum.com Making the Museum is a project of C&G Partners | Design for Culture.Learn about the firm's creative work at: https://www.cgpartnersllc.com Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. 

Working as a team of diverse members with hundreds of differences is something that many of us have yet to master. One thing that often remains untapped is the strength and power of optimizing those differences that lie between us. Carolynne Wintrip has been fascinated by team work and collaboration from a young age. She believed that learning about team collaboration would not only help her to impact change, but also help her team to become more productive, achieve better results, and build stronger relationships. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, we're talking with Carolynne Wintrip, Learning & Team Effectiveness Consultant at Luminus Learning about cognitive diversity and the kind of power it holds in the workplace in order to enhance team collaboration. Leadership tips you won't want to miss:

Today sees the release of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's much anticipated Netflix series. To discuss Krupa is joined by Catherine Mayer, author of Charles: The Heart of a King and co-founder of the Women's Equality Party, and the former Royal photographer Jayne Fincher who was the only woman in the press pack with Princess Diana. Yesterday on the programme, we spoke to actor Kate Winslet about her new drama I am Ruth on Channel 4. During that interview, Kate told Emma about a donation she made to pay a soaring energy bill for a child's life support after being moved by the family's story. Freya, who is 13, has severe cerebral palsy and relies on receiving oxygen for chronic breathing problems. Freya's mother, Carolynne Hunter, joins us today. At least nine children across the UK are said to have died recently from complications caused by the Strep A infection. So just how concerned should parents be, and what, if anything, can parents do to protect their children? Professor Devi Sridhar, Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, joins Krupa. Sara Collins won the Costa First Novel Prize in 2019 for The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a gothic thriller about a Jamaican maid in 1820's London. Sara has now adapted her book for television and the four part series is available on the streaming service ITVX from today. Sara joins Krupa in studio. How do you convince your adult children to spend Christmas with you? We hear from Sue Elliot Nicholls who says she's already preparing for the fact that her son's will choose their girlfriends family over her and from relationship psychologist Emma Kenny. Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Emma Pearce

Our couples therapist Carolynne from Coupleworx breaks down what an effective & sincere apology looks like so we are clear on how to give one & how to know when we have received an apology that lands.

Welcome to another ride on the Hot Mess Express! Today we take you to Australia so buckle up and grab a cocktail. Today's episode is full of twists and turns as we explore Julian Bushwald's relationship with Carolynne Watson. What was supposed to be a romantic picnic becomes a kidnapping many won't forget. Socials: Instagram- tequilashewrote Tiktok- tequilashewrote Facebook- tequila, she wrote Twitter- tequilashewrote Patreon- tequilashewrote Email- tequilashewrote@gmail.com Resources: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/true-crime-scene/twisted-romeos-darren-saltmarsh-and-julian-buchwald-turned-the-search-for-love-to-pure-terror/news-story/e85b3f7b43b48aea7ceade6803605aa6?nk=62e9379796b1cb65d13c751c50c872b0-1663113263 https://medium.com/obscure-horror/teen-and-her-boyfriend-were-abducted-by-a-satanic-cult-and-left-in-the-woods-or-were-they-cfc77fc50a2f https://amp.smh.com.au/national/kidnapper-fled-to-india-to-avoid-jail-court-told-20091021-h80n.html https://amp.theage.com.au/national/victoria/nailed-bailed-jailed-then-derailed-the-bush-plot-that-cost-a-man-his-country-20160427-gofuxd.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tequilashewrote/support

The crystals 2-part series continues as Carolynne and I discuss some of the more common crystals by color and intentions. **************************************************************************************************************************** References: "The Encyclopedia of Crystals" by Judy Hall | "The Crystal Bible" by Judy Hall ************************************************************************************************************************** Links: Website: https://margaridinah.wixsite.com/witchmagick FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/681796736348105 Faery's Fancy (Carolynne's Group): https://www.facebook.com/faerysfancy  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2zpT3JuP4IaJJy_CcaBriQ IG: https://www.instagram.com/dawnswitchmagick/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WitchMagick Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/witchmagick   Thanks for all your support!   

Julian and Carolynne had been dating for 2 years, and planned to have a picnic on the 1200 acre property that Julian's mom owned in Budgeree, Australia. They were having a great time by the casual, yet natural, 10 foot waterfall at the end of one of the trails. They were supposed to be home in a couple of hours, and wanting to be on time, they packed up and headed out. On the way back, Julian was looking for some roadkill that he saw on the way in so that he could get a closer look at what it was. He stopped at the end of the road, asking Carolynne if it was ok if he went to look. She agreed as long as he came back quickly. Julian was gone for 5 minutes, then 10, as Carolyn started to worry about what had happened. Right before she was about to get out of the car, she saw a man dressed in all black sprinting toward the car in her rearview mirror. Before she could even react, he had pulled her out of the car, and hog tied her. Smart Passive Income PodcastWeekly interviews, strategy, and advice for building your online business the smart way.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

There are many different crystals out there. In this 2-part series I, along with Carolynne my guest who has great knowledge of crystals, discuss some of the more common ones and how we can use them in magick to help heal, protect, and much more!  *************************************************************************************************************************** Links: Website: https://margaridinah.wixsite.com/witchmagick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/681796736348105 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2zpT3JuP4IaJJy_CcaBriQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnswitchmagick/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WitchMagick Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/witchmagick ************************************************************************************************************************* Plus, I'd like to give credit to the book:  “The Encylopedia of Crystals” by Judy hall.  

Nora forteller historien til Carolynne Watson. Carolynne blir kidnappa sammen med kjæresten Julian Buchwald og vandrer gjennom skogen naken i flere dager før de finner veien tilbake til sivilisasjonen. Men hva var det som egentlig skjedde? Egentlig ville Nora ta en sak om en seriemorder, men følte ikke helt for det likevel, for den var fryktelig depressiv. Så da blei det den interessante historien til Carolynne i stedet! Her er det ingen som dør eller blir voldtatt, her er det kun gnagsår, småkutt fra kvister i skogen og solbrenthet. En traumatisk opplevelse for Carolynne, men en historie vi tror alle kan tåle å høre på. Insta: https://instagram.com/holdpustenpod Face: https://www.facebook.com/holdpustenpod Klikk her for å kjøpe stæsj https://tshirt.no/butikk/holdpusten/ Gi oss gjerne fem stjerner overalt og husk å anbefal podden til en venn om du liker det du hører :) Vi skal spille inn live på Drammen Podcastfestival! Klikk her for å lese mer: https://fb.me/e/4BpZOA9DU Håper vi ser deg i publikum! PS, det er gratis ;) Lydeffekter fra zapsplat.com

Nora forteller historien til Carolynne Watson. Carolynne blir kidnappa sammen med kjæresten Julian Buchwald og vandrer gjennom skogen naken i flere dager før de finner veien tilbake til sivilisasjonen. Men hva var det som egentlig skjedde? Egentlig ville Nora ta en sak om en seriemorder, men følte ikke helt for det likevel, for den var fryktelig depressiv. Så da blei det den interessante historien til Carolynne i stedet! Her er det ingen som dør eller blir voldtatt, her er det kun gnagsår, småkutt fra kvister i skogen og solbrenthet. En traumatisk opplevelse for Carolynne, men en historie vi tror alle kan tåle å høre på.Insta: https://instagram.com/holdpustenpodFace: https://www.facebook.com/holdpustenpodGi oss gjerne fem stjerner overalt og husk å anbefal podden til en venn om du liker det du hører :)Vi skal spille inn live på Drammen Podcastfestival! Klikk her for å lese mer: https://fb.me/e/4BpZOA9DU Håper vi ser deg i publikum! PS, det er gratis ;)Lydeffekter fra zapsplat.com

Ken Atchitystorymerchant.comKen Atchity, head of Story Merchant Books and Atchity Productions, has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing world, and over 20 years in entertainment. His latest book is titled My Obit: Daddy Holding Me. Based on his teaching, managing, and writing experience, Ken has successfully built bestselling careers for novelists, nonfiction writers, and screenwriters from the ground up. His bestselling clients have led him to all areas of communications. http://www.kenatchityblog.com/Paul LaRueLifeGivingWarmth.comPaul LaRue founded Life Giving Warmth with his wife Carolynne which creates battery-powered, portable electric blankets that generate up to 3 hours of continuous warmth. All their products are made with a weather-resistant exterior that is designed to withstand wind, snow, and light rain, and their micro-fleece lining encases an internal insulation that maximizes heat retention. https://lifegivingwarmth.com/Alex Ranciatomorethanlikes.orgAlex Ranciato is the CEO/Founder of More Than Likes, a new nonprofit organization designed to end the stigma around teenagers and their infatuation with technology (more importantly social media). The goal for More Than Likes is to get teenagers off of their devices and show that they are more than "likes" on a screen, through impactful acts of community service (from breast cancer awareness /fundraising to anti-bullying campaigns). https://morethanlikes.org/

In March 2008, young couple Julian Buchwald & Carolynne Watson went on a picnic in the Victorian bush and didn't come home. They spent the next week battling exhaustion and exposure to try and find their way out of the bush with only a sleeping bag and a jar of peanut butter to keep them going. When they stumbled out of the bush a week later with a wild story of hostage and kidnapping, it didn't take police to figure out who was behind it.  Jacob shares the story with guest host Zara McDonald. Follow Zara on Instagram @zamcdonald and @shamelesspodcast Listen to her podcast 'Shameless Presents: The Books That Changed My Life'. We recommend you start with their episode with comedian Wil Anderson: https://www.listnr.com/podcasts/shameless-presents-the-books-that-changed-my-life/how-wil-anderson-overcomes-regret Skip straight to the story: approx 8:11 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this: You can read all the details of the investigation process and the trial by reading the court report on Julian's unsuccessful appeal https://jade.io/article/259257 You can watch a video with lots of images from news reports here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLzD7IrZq70 Read a news report from the week the couple were missing, appealing for info from the public https://www.theage.com.au/national/missing-couple-planned-marriage-at-years-end-20080309-ge6tnh.html A report about Julian's escape attempt https://www.deccanherald.com/content/213097/man-kidnapped-girlfriend-sex-loses.html This episode gets pretty dark. If it brings anything up for you and you'd like to talk to someone about it, you can contact 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Andrew is confused and Torii is homicidal! This episode is about the Kidnapping of Carolynne Watson and Julian Buchwald. There is a language warning at one point, so please be aware of that. We had fun, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!Here is the other Podcast that Torii mentioned if you want to go and check them out!Website: https://casefilepodcast.com/case-07-julian-buchwald-and-carolynne-watson/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUC4dWpdWmYWant to see more? Check out our socials!gmail: candhpod@gmail.cominstagram: @candhpodtwitter: @CandHPodcastfacebook: CandH Podtiktok: @candhpod

Welcome! For our debut episode, Rebecca covers the story of Carolynne Watson & Julian Buchwald. 

Edited by Haley Craven. Follow us on Instagram: @peoplearetheworst_pod

Join me on today's episode with Author & Priestess Stella Tomlinson as we dive into:Exploring how the outer seasons of the menstrual cycle, the moon and the seasonal year affect our inner world of emotions and the soul.How, as highly sensitives, we're naturally sensitive to the entire circle of the energy of life, death and rebirth and how honouring this full cycle is essential for our mental and emotional health as well as spiritual authenticity.And perhaps my favorite part of this whole conversation: exploring an alternative view of perimenopause as a sacred right of passage. I love changing the narrative on this! I invite you to tune and and hear what Stella has to share with us today :)She'll briefly touch on her new book called Cycles of Belonging, published by Womancraft Publishing. It sounds like an incredible read!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with today's guest Stella Tomlinson:Soul Forge eBook & to receive her wonderful Soul Notes: https://stellatomlinson.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=aa908b14380df00f88b90a3a6&id=5d39844ff0Book: Cycles of BelongingStella Tomlinson's Website: https://stellatomlinson.com/--------------------------------------------------------------------------Join the Spring Equinox Circle: Yoga, Ritual, & Renewal: https://combinationhealing.ca/events/spring_equinox_circle_2022/Connect with circle co-facilitator Carolynne: https://www.yogawithcarolynne.com/https://www.yogawithcarolynne.com/youtube-channelConnect with your host, Lisa Matthews at: https://combinationhealing.ca/Nourish Your Roots Grounding Meditation: https://combinationhealing.ca/free/grounding/Kristin Neff book mentioned: Fierce Self-Compassion----------------------------------------------------------------------------If you've enjoy the show and would like to support it, you can donate an amount of your choice here: https://bit.ly/supportthepodcastSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/highly-sensitive-soul-podcast-for-hsps/donations

On this week's episode of Roots and Hoots, host Gordon Spence is pleased to be joined by Carolynne Crawley. Carolynne is a woman who cares deeply and sincerely about the Land. She is of Mi'kmaw, Black and Irish ancestry and is from the East Coast, known today as Nova Scotia. Carolynne is the founder of Msit No'kmaq. Among her vast experience of working in community and guiding people through the practice of forest therapy, she is dedicated to social and environmental justice and supporting Indigenous led community work related to food sovereignty and food security.

This was a tough episode to record. I've been waiting to get clear about the lesson of this difficult life phase and it simply hasn't happened yet. Rather than to bypass the uncomfortable, I am trying to be in the present, now and exploring stillness between an old life and a new one. As always here are some prompts to be mindful of: In what ways can I surrender in the lesson that I'm learning, this season? When I look at how I'm nourishing my body, mind and soul, how can I make it more nourishing? What skill or lesson may I be avoiding to learn, when I rush through this season/phase of my life? work with me Book your free discovery call: https://bit.ly/3dIZMHn Conscious Creators (1:1 coaching): https://www.changeyourlatitude.co/conscious-creators Focus + Flow (90-min intensive): https://www.changeyourlatitude.co/focus-flow free support Unlock the library of free resources: https://www.changeyourlatitude.co/the-free-guides Sign up to receive Letters to a Wildflower: https://www.changeyourlatitude.co/the-newsletter Read the blog: https://www.changeyourlatitude.co/the-blog follow Carolynne https://www.instagram.com/yogawithcarolynne/ https://www.yogawithcarolynne.com/

The first few months after bringing your bundle of joy into the world can come with a slew of challenges, including a new routine and a whole lot less sleep. In this episode, Carolynne Harvey, baby sleep expert, author, and founder of Dream Baby Sleep, dishes on newborn sleep for expecting and new moms. Using her sleep tips and methodologies, you too can find a healthy balance for you and your little ones.

Top 5 Little Known Yoga Channels You Need to Follow Summer 2021  In this video my friend Matt Depuis and I are going to share with you some of our favourite heart centered yoga teachers who are sharing their yoga on YouTube that you may not have come across because they are “smaller” channels. These are teachers that are generously sharing their teachings on YouTube on a regular schedule, that have good sound and lighting and are offering high quality instruction. In this video we will share why we enjoy their teaching and we hope that you will check them out.    Chocolate Twist Yoga https://www.youtube.com/c/ChocolateTwistYoga/videos The classes are given by teacher Kali Sampson Alexander and feature beginner-friendly yoga classes to help you feel and live better in your body. She teaches Yin yoga, vinyasa flow, hatha, and therapeutic yoga classes drawn upon her background in Traditional Chinese Medicine and African diasporic wisdom and culture.   The class I did was a Yin Yoga class to Amplify Your Vibration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5vVsHANaCo   This class was really a beginner friendly class and she gives a lot of guidance and uses many props. She has great instructions and we went through a lot of asanas. This was definitely a great and beginner friendly yoga class and because we moved at a faster pace through the class, I felt energized and it definitely raised my vibrations.    Bea Yoga & Well Being  https://www.youtube.com/c/BeaYogaWellbeing/   Beatrice is a yoga teacher and a clinical massage therapist living in the UK. She helps people manage pain, stress and anxiety through gentle movement, meditation, self massage and she teaches yin yoga, gentle hatha, meditation and yoga nidra. Bea uploads new classes every Thursday.    I love Bea's well planned classes. For this video I practiced her yin yoga for the front body: https://youtu.be/E7j7H6yT-zE  I enjoyed every minute of this class from the supported bridges with the blocks to begin and end to everything in between. I appreciated the modification in broken wing pose and I loved the way Bea moved the blocks back in dragon pose to open up the chest. That really allowed me to breath with more ease and open the sensation down through my psoas and into my quadricep.   Karling Dallyn Yoga & Wellness https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFVN-GUH2s8pBRBgVAdAPQ/featured   Karling has a soft spoken teacher voice and her calm energy drags you into a meditative state while doing her classes. The class I did was was a 60 Min Full Yin Yoga Class to fully de-stress the body. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mR_PHgIbvM   During this class I was able to fall into the relaxing vibe and calming practice that Karling was putting as the intention here. She was guiding me smoothly from asana to asana using plenty of time, pauses and deep holds which I find is the best way to go about a relaxing and stress relieving class. She had smooth music playing in the background which was helping get into the zone as well.    Yoga with Carolynne https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ8blZQ0C69zmG5HfEP9z6Q/videos   Carolynne teaches empaths and sensitive souls how to create a collaborative relationship with their bodies through crazy accessible yoga and self care practices in order to live a life filled with less doing and more being. She is a fellow Canadian who strives to offer a safe and welcoming space for people who might have felt discouraged by lack of options offered in other classes. She releases weekly either yin or gentle hatha with the intention to leave you feeling calmer, grounded and a little bit better.    For this video I practiced her Deep Hip Stretch for Every BODY. https://youtu.be/4TGpTnK_T1Y  If it weren't for Carolynne's loving and encouraging presence, I'm not sure I would have been able to stick with this practice. It included some super challenging for me poses including dr...

Whether it's through daily habits or a handy set of tools, taking care of one's self shouldn't feel shameful nor should it be treated as an afterthought. When it comes to business, it's easy to forget that we are our most precious resource as we plunge head first into hustle culture. This week, I'm chatting about the importance of self-care with Carolynne Colbeck. She will share how she has applied her life lessons in her yoga practice and in turn, in her life and business. She also shares some tips for daily habits to incorporate as well as some practical tools you can use in times of need. find Carolynne On her website On her YouTube page Download her free EveryBody Self Care Toolkit work with me Summer/Fall Live Group Planning Workshop Book your free discovery call Conscious Creators (1:1 coaching) Focus + Flow (90-min intensive) free support Join the free monthly creative gathering Unlock the library of free resources Sign up to receive Letters to a Wildflower Read the blog

Welcome to another episode of Write-hearted, with me Stuart Wakefield. In this episode, I'll be talking to Carolynne Henry, voiceover artist and audiobook editor/producer. If you'd like to connect with Carolynne or me, please find our links below. But first... You can buy Goodman's Child, narrated by Carolynne, on audiobook or eBook here: https://books2read.com/b/goodmanschild FOLLOW CAROLYNNE HERE! Website: https://www.carolynnehenryvoiceover.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carolynne.henry Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynnehowardliv1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolynnehenryvoiceover/ FOLLOW STUART HERE! Website: https://www.stuartwakefield.info/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/misterwakefield Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misterswakefield/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedininstagram.com/misterswakefield/ You can also buy Stuart's latest novel, Behind the Seams, here: https://books2read.com/b/mgzeRz Credits: Music by jhonnyrave15 from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writehearted/message

Carolynne Harris v. David Mundel

Carolynne is a gifted teacher, spiritual coach and intuitive, who has always known there was more to life than which could be seen, understood or touched.

“There's nothing wrong with you. You're just a little bit caught up in your own personal thinking. Once you understand that personal thinking, you start to come home and you are comfortable with yourself.”  - Carolynne Melnyk Is your mind filled with noise and chaotic thoughts? Discover how to find balance and reclaim your inner peace in as fast as 8 seconds! Experience comfortable silence and embrace your humaneness as Candice interviews Carolynne Melnyk, a Certified Spring Forest Qigong Trainer and Insight Coach. Candice and Carolynne present facts about insight and intuition and why we should listen deep enough to these voices that are leading us back to our source. Tune in and learn a very easy trick to regain your focus!     Connect with Candice:   Instagram: @candicecreation  Podcast: https://bit.ly/PodcastwithMe Facebook: /CandiceSmiley LinkedIn: /candicesmiley YouTube: /CandiceSmiley TikTok: @candicesmiley.com Website: candicesmiley.com   Create the Ripple  Instagram: @createtheripplepodcast @createtheripplemagazine   Facebook: Create the Ripple Podcast  Create the Ripple Magazine    Highlights: 03:36 Called to Machu Picchu  08:00 A Vision Quest 16: 14 Pay attention to Your Insights  22:09 Experience Comfortable Silence 31:31 Embrace Your Humaneness 39:43 The Power of 8 Seconds  44:41 This is How We Got Here  50:21 What to Say 53:34 Come Home

I found myself a real life Derry girl! Of course, I'm referencing the hit Netflix show by the same name, 'Derry Girls.' My latest guest, Carolynne Harrison, indeed grew up in Derry, Ireland. Now residing in Donegal, Carolynne is the GM of Shandon Hotel & Resort. Carolynne talks with me about being closed for 8 months, grateful for the time throughout the pandemic spent with her girls, learning how to cook and clean :), wanting to get back to work, the frustration her and the 160,000 out of work hospitality folks are experiencing with no clear date of when the lockdown will be lifted.

22-year old-Julian Buchwald and his 17-year-old girlfriend Carolynne failed to return home from a picnic lunch in Country Victoria. One strange letter filled with right-wing satanic rhetoric, a massive search, and seven days later and the couple appeared on the side of the road hours from where they disappeared. They told police the harrowing story of their kidnapping. But the truth began to come out, and it was stranger than anyone could have imagined.FURTHER READING:Sex ruse kidnapper Julian Mathias Buchwald loses appealKidnapper fled to India to avoid jail, court toldNailed, bailed, jailed then derailed. The bush plot that cost a man his countryChurchgoer Staged Kidnap For SexMan Who Kidnapped Girlfriend For Sex Loses Appeal  Order of Nine Angles-----------------------------------------------Like the show? Give us a rating and review!Follow us on social media:FacebookInstagramSquaremileofmurder.comSupport us:PatreonOther support options

Host: Gareth Davies. Produced by The Sound Boutique. Gareth has a chat with composer agent Carolynne Wyper about starting out, being there for her clients and the benefits of collaboration. Links SMA Talent website: https://bit.ly/32Urhuh SMA Talent on social media:Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kuawx3 Facebook: https://bit.ly/33DRI7L Twitter: https://bit.ly/3hI3dQA Creative Cuppa Homepage: https://bit.ly/32iKRBw Starting a podcast? See what The Sound Boutique can do for you: https://bit.ly/2Zl3q6s Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/creativecuppa)

In this episode I spoke with one of my good friends Carolynne about her passion for theater and performing the day she had a seizure . We also spoke about been diagnosed with Seronegative Autoimmune Encephalitis and the impact that, that diagnosis had in her life.

Kev and Jay speak to accomplished Scottish producer Carolynne Sinclair Kidd about her time producing High Times. In this episode we find out just WHAT a producer does, we hear about some of Carolynne's experiences within a difficult ever changing industry. We hear all about her time on set with the cast of High Times and how she helped mould the show into what it became. Don't miss this episode!You can find Carolynne's daughters band The Ninth Wave at the links below:https://theninthwave.online/https://www.facebook.com/TheNinthWaveOfficial/Song used in the episode "Used to be yours".

Listen in our discussion with Dr. Carolynne Hulltquist, Ph.D as we talk about the value of Crowdsourcing initiatives and their positive impact focused around environmental hazards within . Find more topics like this at www.projectgeospatial.com or www.geospatialfrontier.com

Today Maria is chatting with a long-time friend and fellow dog lover Carolynne Masters. Carolynne is an animal massage therapist with 15 years of experience. She is based in Guelph, Ontario.  Her dogs names are Penny and JinxMasters Animal Massage - carolynnemasters@gmail.comCarolynne's Give the Dog a Bone reference:Pick of the Litter on Netflix 

The Rev. Canon Carolynne Williams The Cathedral of St. Philip Atlanta, GA

I recently spoke to Seattle-based actor and playwright Carolynne Wilcox via Skype. She had a lot of intriguing and helpful things to say about playwriting...and writing in general. Enjoy! ************************************************************************************************************************************************** Carolynne's bio: Carolynne Wilcox is a playwright, actor and graphic designer who calls Seattle, WA home. Her plays have been produced both in Seattle and nationally, in Alaska, Chicago, Baltimore and Orlando, to name a few. As the daughter of a diplomat having grown up internationally as well as in the US, she’s been a serious writer since the godawful fantasy novels she used to write at the tender age of 12, and besides those, has written numerous poems, essays, in addition to corporate content and blog work. After a lifetime as an actor, she finally dared write her first play in 2003, and it remains her constant, most fascinating genre. More info and work samples can be found at www.carolynnewilcox.com. ************************************************************************************************************************************************* Email me: marisadellefarfalle@gmail.com Twitter: @marisadee13 Now on Instagram! marisadf13 I'd also really appreciate it if you could take a moment to rate & review this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify, as it'll help a lot more people find out about this show!

This interview first aired on Tuesday the 16th of June 2020 on ONE FM 98.5 Shepparton. One FM breakfast announcer Peter D. interviews Carolynne Frost the CEO of Connect GV. She talks about the renovations of their new building and all the work they're doing in our community about providing opportunities for people with a disability. To contact Connect GV the number to call is 5821 2466. Listen to Peter D. live on weekday mornings from 6am-9am. Contact the station on admin@fm985.com.au or (+613) 58313131 The ONE FM 98.5 Community Radio podcast page operates under the license of Goulburn Valley Community Radio Inc. (ONE FM) Number 1385226/1.

This session from St Mark's Hospital's Frontiers 2019 is chaired by Phil Tozer and Ailsa Hart with panelists Sue Clark, Phillip Lung, Siew Ng, Asha Senapati, Carolynne Vaizey and Janindra Warusavitarne. The talks in this session are: (1) Medical management of Crohn’s fistula - Siew Ng (2) Surgical management of anal fistula - Phil Tozer (3) Management of rectovaginal fistula - Carolynne Vaizey

It’s WAY overdue, but the 2019 Crappy Awards are finally here! 2019 was a SH*TTY year of diet culture BS, with countless examples of gaslighting opportunism from profit hungry snake oil salesman. From fashion brands and Big “O” stealing body positivity, to medical negligence and library invasions, NOTHING is sacred to the weight loss wolves hungry to make a buck off body misery! Our listeners have gathered together the MOST loathsome examples of these bottom feeding b*stards in a magnificent rant-fest of epic proportions! If you’ve had a gutful of COVID19, tune in for some truly furious take downs of the weight loss industry! I strongly advise a large quarantini and headphones for this ep as the swear-o-meter is set to high! Featuring guest judge Alyssa, our carry over champ from the 2018 awards ceremony. Who will win???   Show Notes     Goodness me, we’re dealing with multiple layers of fear and uncertainty at this time. We’re going to get through this but bloody hell, what an absolute shit-fight. I hope you’re all staying safe, and that this episode and The Crappys give you a needed belly laugh. Announcement! Why should we wait until the end of the year for The Crappys? For the rest of 2020, we’re going to ‘rant as you go’. If you hear something from diet culture that really gets your goat and gets your blood boiling, you can submit a rant to me anytime. While it’s fresh, do a quick recording -  around two to three minutes – introduce yourself, rant about the thing that’s pissing you off, and send it to me as an .mp3 or .mp4 to louise@untrapped.com.au. I’ll save them up until the next Crappy Awards. A warning for this episode – plenty of swearing! And without further ado, I’m going to introduce the 2019 Crappy Awards! Grab a ‘quarantini’ and let’s rant about diet culture. Alyssa won our previous Crappy Awards in 2018 with a brilliant rant about the ‘cookie diet’ and so joins us as a guest judge this year. 2019 was a huge year for crappy diet culture crap. Huge. And it’s seeped into 2020 – just a quagmire of shit to rake through to pick the crappiest of 2019. Even as a non-competing judge, Alyssa couldn’t help but submit a rant herself. Alyssa nominates the book ‘How Not to Diet’ by Dr Michael Greger. It mentioned weight loss multiple times on just the cover blurbs, and the kicker – this book is about the “ideal weight-loss diet”. IDEAL WEIGHT-LOSS DIET. In a book called ‘how not to diet’. SERIOUSLY! “A timeless proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend” … even his own new trend? There’s too many of them! “Chock full of actionable advice and groundbreaking dietary research. ‘How Not to Diet’ will put an end to dieting and replace those constant weight-loss struggles with a simple, healthy, sustainable lifestyle”. We’ve got weight-loss, weight-loss, weight-loss, then ‘lifestyle’, hence a nomination for The Crappys. Some consistency here with her 2018 winning rant objecting to being mansplained at with the ‘cookie diet’! Dr Michael Greger is another thin white male entering the ‘how not to diet’ space. Is this a joke? A how-not-to-diet-step-by-step-diet? Alyssa has some judging criteria for the official 2019 entries – laugh factor, sarcasm factor, and WTF or ‘mind blown’ factor. Entry #1 – from Anna Hearn, founder of Haven Wellness. It’s a unique fat-positive fitness and yoga studio in Sydney, Australia. Haven focuses on helping members build a compassionate relationship with their bodies which is very different to typical gym culture, and to build a resilience against diet culture out in the ‘real world’. Anna wants to rant about body positivity being co-opted for marketing purposes. Anna had a conversation with a friend who reiterated the idea that fashion brands use thin bodies because ‘that’s what sells’. But, remember campaigns like the Calvin Klein underwear ads that featured some bigger bodies, like rapper Chika? You might then think that you could go and buy Calvin Klein underwear in larger sizes – nope! Anna learned from clients that brands like Everlane and Urban Outfitters also use larger-bodied people in their advertising campaigns but then don’t carry those sizes for customers. So, they’ll use larger bodies in their campaigns but then won’t even let you buy those sizes. Profiting off body positivity while not taking care of larger bodies. Brands want to jump on the bandwagon and profit from the body positivity movement without actually doing the work to create products for larger bodies. Remember when Lorna Jane got in trouble for advertising for a receptionist who had to be a size zero? They then tried to use body positivity in their marketing campaigns, but then quickly went straight back to their regular marketing of tiny women. Entry #2 – Belinda is here to talk about libraries. Belinda loves libraries! Sauntering into the 2020 display to find some new reads for herself, she was slapped in the face with a range of new-fangled diet books and health garbage. Why does this have to invade some of the safest spaces on the planet? Belinda used to live and breathe libraries as a child. Here’s an idea – put all of these lifestyle authors on ‘Diet Island’ where they can live out the Paleo dream! It’s hard to have all this rantiness and no power, but still we do our best. Belinda urges everyone to vote out these books and instead borrow Christy Harrison’s book ‘Anti-Diet’ – ask your library to get it in! Keep the booky places happy and booky. Libraries are where we play, read, learn, expand our minds – not contract our lives! High sarcasm levels on that rant! So many beautiful mic-drop phrases as well. It’s a rare gift to be able to simultaneously rile someone up and make them laugh, but that’s what just happened for Louise with Belinda’s rant. Entry #3 – from Caroline White, the president of HAES Australia, nominating Big Pharma for co-opting the concept of weight stigma for their own purposes. In 2018 we ended on a bit of a high, with the senate committee into the ‘o’ epidemic in Australia recommending the need to eradicate weight stigma from public health campaigns, and for health professionals to understand weight stigma better. During the year, Carolynne had the opportunity to have a conversation with someone from ‘Obesity Inc’. They talked about weight stigma during that conversation, and they said that their reason for addressing weight stigma was that it was a BARRIER TO WEIGHT LOSS TREATMENTS OR WEIGHT MANAGEMENT. To that I say “no, no, no, Novo Nordisk!” You do not get to coopt the concept of weight stigma that fat activisms, fat studies and feminist scholars and other social science researchers have been studying over decades for your own financial gain. You do not get to fund expensive research studies that are weight-biased and partner with cash-strapped public health organizations to push an agenda to have a body size classified as a chronic disease. This contributes to weight stigma and reinforces the notion that weight is under an individual’s control, if not by diet and exercise but now through medication and surgery, which is fantastic for your profit margins but from a public health perspective is horrendous. It risks people receiving treatment that is expensive, unnecessary, and associated with harmful side-effects. Weight stigma is common in our society and studies suggest it is increasing. Part of the reason why it’s increasing is because of the studies that you’re funding. The solution to weight stigma is not to make people in larger bodies smaller. Weight stigma is a social justice problem that needs social solutions. That’s why in HAES Australia’s response to the national ‘O’ strategy consultation, we’ve called for weight inclusive policy that recognizes size diversity and supports the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of all people across the weight spectrum. We also argued for including physical features as a protected characteristic under human rights legislation, and health promotion and disease prevention policy and guidelines to be free from influence from treatment industries that profit from framing body weight as a disease. Thank you to everyone who filled out the public surveys for this ‘o’ strategy in Australia – it must have come at a cost to many in a world of weight stigma. Well done, Carolynne! Riled us up perfectly. The mention of Novo Nordisk prompted a HUGE wine sip from Louise. Louise calls Carolynne the ‘velvet hammer’ for sending out messages perfectly with calm and rationality. Big Pharma pretending to care about weight stigma, and brands pretending to care about larger bodies, is the theme of The Crappys for 2019 so far. It’s mind-blowing to think that there are humans out there who are actually behind that, who feel morally that there is nothing wrong with it. Louise also wants to thank everyone who answered the HAES Australia call-out to take part in that Australian ‘o’ strategy survey. There was weight stigma hidden in every corner of it. Entry #4 – Jo is an anti-diet Registered Dietitian in the UK doing their very best to spread this message with the blog and website antidietanswers.com and on Instagram. The diet culture demon that’s up Jo’s nose is January wellness challenges! The 30-day challenges that promise you will be a whole new person by the end of the month. You know – Veganuary, Whole30, burpee challenges, ‘grow a bum by the end of January’ challenges, you know the type. There’s two reasons Jo is so pissed by these, and the first is the word ‘challenge’. A challenge is defined as ‘a call to participate in a competitive situation to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength’. So, by their nature, if you take on one of these challenges and you can’t handle it, you are by definition less able, weak. These challenges are dangerous for our mental health because they set up that dichotomous thinking – all or nothing. And you might not have even wanted to try being vegan, you just felt pressure from others on social media! It’s diet culture masquerading as wellness yet again. There’s been lots of these challenges popping up on social media feeds, not even just January now! Seems like every charity is jumping on the bandwagon asking us to give up something or continue using something. Louise saw one where you’re not allowed to drink any water! ‘Report ad’, we’ve had enough. You could almost get a repetitive strain injury from pressing ‘block and report’ on Instagram these days. Loved Jo’s point about a challenge meaning looking for someone superior. There was a beautiful pause for effect at the start there – she’s definitely nailing the delivery. And rage in an Irish accent is awesome! (Was it Irish? Sorry if we’re wrong, Jo!). It’s awesome to know that there’s people all over the world pushing back and not taking this bullshit anymore. Entry #5 from ‘Anonymous’. Three things. The first one is: qualified dietitians with a public profile who should know better - posting things like ‘detox soup’ recipes in the middle of January. It’s the same old recipe that my Grandmother would have cooked. Who wants soup in January? Give me a break. The second one is a real doozy from a Facebook mum’s group, where someone asked how to make a complaint about a doctor. She has a family history of breast cancer and went to the doctor to ask about the BRCA genetic test and instead got a lecture from the doctor about her weight and how she “needs to go and lose some weight to protect herself from cancer”. Are you fucking kidding me? So, that’s the second one – medical professionals who just blow my head off with their bullshit. And the third one is marketing themselves as a weight-loss thing in my area. For just under $800 you can go to a two-day hypnotherapy-for-weight-loss seminar where your weight troubles will be gone forever. I have a few acquaintances that have done this, and it comes with a ridiculously restrictive diet. On the website it has things like “what’s the cost of not attending?” – “the cost of not attending: nothing will change. You’ll continue down the same frustrating road that you’re on now. Are you sick and tired of that yet?”. It’s a bunch of infuriating gaslighting bullshit. So, that’s my trifecta of misery. Stuff diet culture! Phew! It’s like we’ve gone past rage and into eye-of-the-hurricane-calm, because there was just so much crap in that entry. A fucking dietitian selling detox soup? They should know better. They should be reported to the DAA and not be able to do that with their public profile. Numbing is an interesting response, like we have to shut down because “what the actual fuck?”. Alyssa remembers once making a horrendous raw broccoli soup and doesn’t even know what was possessing her at the time, but it was one of those weird January things. It ended up being a turning point because it was so awful. Australia in January is too hot for soup! It’s so important to get an early diagnosis for breast cancer, and the weight stigma observed here is a reason that people can end up dying of breast cancer (and other conditions and diseases). Absolutely awful. Louise went in and found the hypnotherapy two-day rip-off event online and now has a special place in hell reserved for them. This might end up being a special episode of All Fired Up! Gosh, it must be so hard to have people in your life who are taking part in stuff like this. The person who did this rant is not alone – so many of us have people in our lives who are taking part in diet culture. We know there’s big power in groups (i.e. cults) and you’re more vulnerable when you’re starving – it’s deliberate. Hypnotherapy for ‘weight loss’ doesn’t work. Don’t pay them any money, report them to the ACCC for this bullshit. Entry #6 from Mandy-Lee Noble, Accredited Practicing Dietitian from Nourished Approach in Queensland. You might think Mandy-Lee would nominate a pharmaceutical group as she’s been investigating this with Louise, but instead wants to take this opportunity to talk about a different aspect of diet culture that’s got her fired up. It’s a fad diet called the hCG diet. HCG stands for ‘human chorionic gonadotropin’ hormone, that we produce during pregnancy to sustain a foetus. It mobilizes energy to provide energy to the foetus while someone’s pregnant. The diet was developed by Dr Albert Theodore William Simeons in his 1954 book ‘Pounds and Inches’ and he also published an article about it in The Lancet. So, what do you do? You inject the hCG hormone (or use an oral spray that doesn’t work at all) every day for eight weeks in conjunction with a really rigid 500 calorie diet, with claims that you’ll lose quite a lot of weight every week from areas such as the stomach where people often wish to lose weight. But, due to the hormone, the claim is that you won’t experience the irritability and hunger that you would generally experience with weight loss, and that the weight would stay off. But when you look at the protocol and see the recommendations for when you start to plateau or gain back weight, they’re so rigid. It also recommends going completely ‘oil free’ including any oils in your makeup products. Since the 50’s there have been a dozen studies that found that it absolutely doesn’t work, and the FDA had to put out a disclaimer in the 1970’s saying that it’s not tested for safety and doesn’t work. It regained popularity when good old Dr Oz promoted it on his television show. What really pissed me off about this diet is that I know some people who have followed it, because it was prescribed by an actual GP. An AHPRA registered GP. There are GP’s and pharmacists actually pushing this diet in Australia. Another glass of wine for Louise! Bloody hell. Dr Oz?! GP’s?! Did they learn about this from Dr Oz, because that’s seriously concerning. Louise has also had clients whose doctors have recommended the hCG diet to them. Unbelievable. 500 calories a day is just so low, such a brutal level of calorie restriction. REPORT YOUR GP if they try to prescribe this extremely dangerous, ineffective, damaging diet. This could kill people. This is restriction on a whole new level, it’s very unsafe and totally unreasonable. AND it’s fuck-off expensive. Entry #7 – from Martina Zangger, a 58-year old lecturer at the University of Newcastle in health behaviour sciences. Martina is very pissed off and wants to rant about a diet called Bright Line Eating™ (BLE). It’s run by a woman called Susan Pearce Thompson who has almost become a guru and has tens of thousands of followers – mostly women in their just-pre- and post- menopausal years. The program is an eight-week bootcamp that costs $900 USD, which is probably about 13-1400 Australian dollars. It’s a diet based on no sugar, no flour, measuring meals, no snacks, and weighing everything. You become extremely hangry and Martina developed orthorexia and almost developed Anorexia when she was on it. Martina is fired up about paying a lot of money to this woman Susan Pearce Thompson who is a neuropsychologist and should have known better. The idea is that flour and sugar are addicting and you can’t have anything with those ingredients in it. Being on the diet made Martina a not-very-nice person who thought she was superior to other people. She was supported by the BLE community in thinking she WAS special and that she had found ‘the answer’. The weight regain that happened afterwards was quite disheartening, however she’s now two years out of that diet and feels so much happier. She does accept her larger body and enjoys all foods, enjoys sharing foods with friends and family, and is SO ANGRY at Susan Pearce Thompson and that stupid Bright Line Eating movement. Susan must be making about three million American dollars per year with all of her programs. So that’s the rant – sending everyone love and the hope that they can walk away from diet culture and embrace their natural bodies. No one is taking our Tim Tams! No one is taking our flour or our sugar. That was heartbreaking. We’re feeling for Martina. This flour-sugar bullshit is based on the food addiction models. There’s no such thing as food addiction! There IS such thing as an increased response to restraint, which is what happens when people try to restrict certain things – you will develop an unnatural drive relationship with that substance not because of restriction but because of restraint. How do these people sleep at night? They must be in this little bubble, either a numbing bubble or one where they have no freaking idea. Or … one full of cash? And surrounded by people who worship them because of that money and say positive stuff to them. We’re in a place in diet culture where weight loss at all costs is worshiped. Poor Martina ended up with an eating disorder that she paid dearly for, financially and psychologically. We’re in a new decade now and no one should have to fall for this bullshit, no matter how it’s packaged and sold. It’s dangerous stuff. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time out of their day to record a rant and send it in here to push back. These are really meaningful acts of rebellion, and we’re loving it. We’re riding a big wave of emotion – mostly rage, and a bit of heartbreak. Judging time! Let’s run back briefly through the candidates. First, we had Anna from Haven, who was fired up about body positivity being co-opted by marketing and was talking about Calvin Klein. Then we had Belinda, and she was talking about our libraries being infiltrated by diet and wellness books, and she was going to bring forth all the rage of Harry Potter (which Louise loved). Then we had Carolynne White, president of HAES Australia, ranting about how Big Pharma are pushing to get ‘largeness’ classified as a disease so they can sell drugs for weight loss. We have no words. And then we had the lovely Joanne and her beautiful rage and rant about 30-day challenges like Veganuary. Then we had our anonymous trifecta of misery, about dietitians and their detox teas, doctors prescribing weight loss instead of providing responsible medical care, and the hypnotherapist with the completely rip-off seminar on extremely low calorie diets. Again, no words. Then we had Mandy-Lee Noble with the hCG diet, and then Martina ending us on a real low point with the Bright Lines Eating evilness. What a totally Crappy line-up. OH my goodness, what is wrong with health professionals? This is gut-wrenching. We know from weight research that the vast majority of weight stigmatizing messaging comes from health professionals. We have shitty themes from health professionals, bullshit co-opting of body positive trends by the weight loss industry, and then we have just the real evil fuckery. Alyssa wants to give a special mention to Belinda for making her laugh-cry. Alyssa’s shortlist is Carolynne, the Anonymous submission, and Mandy (can’t get past those bloody injections!). And she’s kind of changed her criteria – how much rage came up in her while listening to the rant, and how much rage came through from the entrant. And there’s a kind of ‘mind-blown’ factor. Louise recalls learning about the ‘dry fast’ on Instagram (because ‘drinking water is an addiction’), and then finding a dude-bro drinking his own urine, and how those moments are a real ‘lowering the bar’, ‘going down another level’ experience. Never say never in diet culture. And the winner is (drumroll please) … Mandy-Lee Noble with the hCG diet! Bloody GP’s that are promoting it despite the FDA saying it’s a waste of freaking time. And the oil-free makeup thing! Jeez. Congratulations, Mandy-Lee! There’s a $100 cash prize this year, which seems like nothing after everything we’ve been talking about! Someone as awesome as Mandy-Lee will put it to good use. Alyssa is excited to pass on the crown to Mandy-Lee and move forward to ‘rage on’ in 2020. The mantle has been passed to someone of extreme strength of character, rage and sarcasm. Thank you, Alyssa, for holding us steady through the bullshit of 2019. And thank you to everybody who sent in these rants! It’s a beautiful thing to hear the rage, the push-back, the ferocity that everyone has displayed. Louise would give everyone first-place. Who would have thought ranting about diet culture would be a pleasant diversion from the rest of our lives during COVID-19? Please look after yourself and your families and loved ones, even if that has to be virtual for now.  

It’s WAY overdue, but the 2019 Crappy Awards are finally here! 2019 was a SH*TTY year of diet culture BS, with countless examples of gaslighting opportunism from profit hungry snake oil salesman. From fashion brands and Big “O” stealing body positivity, to medical negligence and library invasions, NOTHING is sacred to the weight loss wolves hungry to make a buck off body misery! Our listeners have gathered together the MOST loathsome examples of these bottom feeding b*stards in a magnificent rant-fest of epic proportions! If you’ve had a gutful of COVID19, tune in for some truly furious take downs of the weight loss industry! I strongly advise a large quarantini and headphones for this ep as the swear-o-meter is set to high! Featuring guest judge Alyssa, our carry over champ from the 2018 awards ceremony. Who will win???   Show Notes     Goodness me, we’re dealing with multiple layers of fear and uncertainty at this time. We’re going to get through this but bloody hell, what an absolute shit-fight. I hope you’re all staying safe, and that this episode and The Crappys give you a needed belly laugh. Announcement! Why should we wait until the end of the year for The Crappys? For the rest of 2020, we’re going to ‘rant as you go’. If you hear something from diet culture that really gets your goat and gets your blood boiling, you can submit a rant to me anytime. While it’s fresh, do a quick recording -  around two to three minutes – introduce yourself, rant about the thing that’s pissing you off, and send it to me as an .mp3 or .mp4 to louise@untrapped.com.au. I’ll save them up until the next Crappy Awards. A warning for this episode – plenty of swearing! And without further ado, I’m going to introduce the 2019 Crappy Awards! Grab a ‘quarantini’ and let’s rant about diet culture. Alyssa won our previous Crappy Awards in 2018 with a brilliant rant about the ‘cookie diet’ and so joins us as a guest judge this year. 2019 was a huge year for crappy diet culture crap. Huge. And it’s seeped into 2020 – just a quagmire of shit to rake through to pick the crappiest of 2019. Even as a non-competing judge, Alyssa couldn’t help but submit a rant herself. Alyssa nominates the book ‘How Not to Diet’ by Dr Michael Greger. It mentioned weight loss multiple times on just the cover blurbs, and the kicker – this book is about the “ideal weight-loss diet”. IDEAL WEIGHT-LOSS DIET. In a book called ‘how not to diet’. SERIOUSLY! “A timeless proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend” … even his own new trend? There’s too many of them! “Chock full of actionable advice and groundbreaking dietary research. ‘How Not to Diet’ will put an end to dieting and replace those constant weight-loss struggles with a simple, healthy, sustainable lifestyle”. We’ve got weight-loss, weight-loss, weight-loss, then ‘lifestyle’, hence a nomination for The Crappys. Some consistency here with her 2018 winning rant objecting to being mansplained at with the ‘cookie diet’! Dr Michael Greger is another thin white male entering the ‘how not to diet’ space. Is this a joke? A how-not-to-diet-step-by-step-diet? Alyssa has some judging criteria for the official 2019 entries – laugh factor, sarcasm factor, and WTF or ‘mind blown’ factor. Entry #1 – from Anna Hearn, founder of Haven Wellness. It’s a unique fat-positive fitness and yoga studio in Sydney, Australia. Haven focuses on helping members build a compassionate relationship with their bodies which is very different to typical gym culture, and to build a resilience against diet culture out in the ‘real world’. Anna wants to rant about body positivity being co-opted for marketing purposes. Anna had a conversation with a friend who reiterated the idea that fashion brands use thin bodies because ‘that’s what sells’. But, remember campaigns like the Calvin Klein underwear ads that featured some bigger bodies, like rapper Chika? You might then think that you could go and buy Calvin Klein underwear in larger sizes – nope! Anna learned from clients that brands like Everlane and Urban Outfitters also use larger-bodied people in their advertising campaigns but then don’t carry those sizes for customers. So, they’ll use larger bodies in their campaigns but then won’t even let you buy those sizes. Profiting off body positivity while not taking care of larger bodies. Brands want to jump on the bandwagon and profit from the body positivity movement without actually doing the work to create products for larger bodies. Remember when Lorna Jane got in trouble for advertising for a receptionist who had to be a size zero? They then tried to use body positivity in their marketing campaigns, but then quickly went straight back to their regular marketing of tiny women. Entry #2 – Belinda is here to talk about libraries. Belinda loves libraries! Sauntering into the 2020 display to find some new reads for herself, she was slapped in the face with a range of new-fangled diet books and health garbage. Why does this have to invade some of the safest spaces on the planet? Belinda used to live and breathe libraries as a child. Here’s an idea – put all of these lifestyle authors on ‘Diet Island’ where they can live out the Paleo dream! It’s hard to have all this rantiness and no power, but still we do our best. Belinda urges everyone to vote out these books and instead borrow Christy Harrison’s book ‘Anti-Diet’ – ask your library to get it in! Keep the booky places happy and booky. Libraries are where we play, read, learn, expand our minds – not contract our lives! High sarcasm levels on that rant! So many beautiful mic-drop phrases as well. It’s a rare gift to be able to simultaneously rile someone up and make them laugh, but that’s what just happened for Louise with Belinda’s rant. Entry #3 – from Caroline White, the president of HAES Australia, nominating Big Pharma for co-opting the concept of weight stigma for their own purposes. In 2018 we ended on a bit of a high, with the senate committee into the ‘o’ epidemic in Australia recommending the need to eradicate weight stigma from public health campaigns, and for health professionals to understand weight stigma better. During the year, Carolynne had the opportunity to have a conversation with someone from ‘Obesity Inc’. They talked about weight stigma during that conversation, and they said that their reason for addressing weight stigma was that it was a BARRIER TO WEIGHT LOSS TREATMENTS OR WEIGHT MANAGEMENT. To that I say “no, no, no, Novo Nordisk!” You do not get to coopt the concept of weight stigma that fat activisms, fat studies and feminist scholars and other social science researchers have been studying over decades for your own financial gain. You do not get to fund expensive research studies that are weight-biased and partner with cash-strapped public health organizations to push an agenda to have a body size classified as a chronic disease. This contributes to weight stigma and reinforces the notion that weight is under an individual’s control, if not by diet and exercise but now through medication and surgery, which is fantastic for your profit margins but from a public health perspective is horrendous. It risks people receiving treatment that is expensive, unnecessary, and associated with harmful side-effects. Weight stigma is common in our society and studies suggest it is increasing. Part of the reason why it’s increasing is because of the studies that you’re funding. The solution to weight stigma is not to make people in larger bodies smaller. Weight stigma is a social justice problem that needs social solutions. That’s why in HAES Australia’s response to the national ‘O’ strategy consultation, we’ve called for weight inclusive policy that recognizes size diversity and supports the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of all people across the weight spectrum. We also argued for including physical features as a protected characteristic under human rights legislation, and health promotion and disease prevention policy and guidelines to be free from influence from treatment industries that profit from framing body weight as a disease. Thank you to everyone who filled out the public surveys for this ‘o’ strategy in Australia – it must have come at a cost to many in a world of weight stigma. Well done, Carolynne! Riled us up perfectly. The mention of Novo Nordisk prompted a HUGE wine sip from Louise. Louise calls Carolynne the ‘velvet hammer’ for sending out messages perfectly with calm and rationality. Big Pharma pretending to care about weight stigma, and brands pretending to care about larger bodies, is the theme of The Crappys for 2019 so far. It’s mind-blowing to think that there are humans out there who are actually behind that, who feel morally that there is nothing wrong with it. Louise also wants to thank everyone who answered the HAES Australia call-out to take part in that Australian ‘o’ strategy survey. There was weight stigma hidden in every corner of it. Entry #4 – Jo is an anti-diet Registered Dietitian in the UK doing their very best to spread this message with the blog and website antidietanswers.com and on Instagram. The diet culture demon that’s up Jo’s nose is January wellness challenges! The 30-day challenges that promise you will be a whole new person by the end of the month. You know – Veganuary, Whole30, burpee challenges, ‘grow a bum by the end of January’ challenges, you know the type. There’s two reasons Jo is so pissed by these, and the first is the word ‘challenge’. A challenge is defined as ‘a call to participate in a competitive situation to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength’. So, by their nature, if you take on one of these challenges and you can’t handle it, you are by definition less able, weak. These challenges are dangerous for our mental health because they set up that dichotomous thinking – all or nothing. And you might not have even wanted to try being vegan, you just felt pressure from others on social media! It’s diet culture masquerading as wellness yet again. There’s been lots of these challenges popping up on social media feeds, not even just January now! Seems like every charity is jumping on the bandwagon asking us to give up something or continue using something. Louise saw one where you’re not allowed to drink any water! ‘Report ad’, we’ve had enough. You could almost get a repetitive strain injury from pressing ‘block and report’ on Instagram these days. Loved Jo’s point about a challenge meaning looking for someone superior. There was a beautiful pause for effect at the start there – she’s definitely nailing the delivery. And rage in an Irish accent is awesome! (Was it Irish? Sorry if we’re wrong, Jo!). It’s awesome to know that there’s people all over the world pushing back and not taking this bullshit anymore. Entry #5 from ‘Anonymous’. Three things. The first one is: qualified dietitians with a public profile who should know better - posting things like ‘detox soup’ recipes in the middle of January. It’s the same old recipe that my Grandmother would have cooked. Who wants soup in January? Give me a break. The second one is a real doozy from a Facebook mum’s group, where someone asked how to make a complaint about a doctor. She has a family history of breast cancer and went to the doctor to ask about the BRCA genetic test and instead got a lecture from the doctor about her weight and how she “needs to go and lose some weight to protect herself from cancer”. Are you fucking kidding me? So, that’s the second one – medical professionals who just blow my head off with their bullshit. And the third one is marketing themselves as a weight-loss thing in my area. For just under $800 you can go to a two-day hypnotherapy-for-weight-loss seminar where your weight troubles will be gone forever. I have a few acquaintances that have done this, and it comes with a ridiculously restrictive diet. On the website it has things like “what’s the cost of not attending?” – “the cost of not attending: nothing will change. You’ll continue down the same frustrating road that you’re on now. Are you sick and tired of that yet?”. It’s a bunch of infuriating gaslighting bullshit. So, that’s my trifecta of misery. Stuff diet culture! Phew! It’s like we’ve gone past rage and into eye-of-the-hurricane-calm, because there was just so much crap in that entry. A fucking dietitian selling detox soup? They should know better. They should be reported to the DAA and not be able to do that with their public profile. Numbing is an interesting response, like we have to shut down because “what the actual fuck?”. Alyssa remembers once making a horrendous raw broccoli soup and doesn’t even know what was possessing her at the time, but it was one of those weird January things. It ended up being a turning point because it was so awful. Australia in January is too hot for soup! It’s so important to get an early diagnosis for breast cancer, and the weight stigma observed here is a reason that people can end up dying of breast cancer (and other conditions and diseases). Absolutely awful. Louise went in and found the hypnotherapy two-day rip-off event online and now has a special place in hell reserved for them. This might end up being a special episode of All Fired Up! Gosh, it must be so hard to have people in your life who are taking part in stuff like this. The person who did this rant is not alone – so many of us have people in our lives who are taking part in diet culture. We know there’s big power in groups (i.e. cults) and you’re more vulnerable when you’re starving – it’s deliberate. Hypnotherapy for ‘weight loss’ doesn’t work. Don’t pay them any money, report them to the ACCC for this bullshit. Entry #6 from Mandy-Lee Noble, Accredited Practicing Dietitian from Nourished Approach in Queensland. You might think Mandy-Lee would nominate a pharmaceutical group as she’s been investigating this with Louise, but instead wants to take this opportunity to talk about a different aspect of diet culture that’s got her fired up. It’s a fad diet called the hCG diet. HCG stands for ‘human chorionic gonadotropin’ hormone, that we produce during pregnancy to sustain a foetus. It mobilizes energy to provide energy to the foetus while someone’s pregnant. The diet was developed by Dr Albert Theodore William Simeons in his 1954 book ‘Pounds and Inches’ and he also published an article about it in The Lancet. So, what do you do? You inject the hCG hormone (or use an oral spray that doesn’t work at all) every day for eight weeks in conjunction with a really rigid 500 calorie diet, with claims that you’ll lose quite a lot of weight every week from areas such as the stomach where people often wish to lose weight. But, due to the hormone, the claim is that you won’t experience the irritability and hunger that you would generally experience with weight loss, and that the weight would stay off. But when you look at the protocol and see the recommendations for when you start to plateau or gain back weight, they’re so rigid. It also recommends going completely ‘oil free’ including any oils in your makeup products. Since the 50’s there have been a dozen studies that found that it absolutely doesn’t work, and the FDA had to put out a disclaimer in the 1970’s saying that it’s not tested for safety and doesn’t work. It regained popularity when good old Dr Oz promoted it on his television show. What really pissed me off about this diet is that I know some people who have followed it, because it was prescribed by an actual GP. An AHPRA registered GP. There are GP’s and pharmacists actually pushing this diet in Australia. Another glass of wine for Louise! Bloody hell. Dr Oz?! GP’s?! Did they learn about this from Dr Oz, because that’s seriously concerning. Louise has also had clients whose doctors have recommended the hCG diet to them. Unbelievable. 500 calories a day is just so low, such a brutal level of calorie restriction. REPORT YOUR GP if they try to prescribe this extremely dangerous, ineffective, damaging diet. This could kill people. This is restriction on a whole new level, it’s very unsafe and totally unreasonable. AND it’s fuck-off expensive. Entry #7 – from Martina Zangger, a 58-year old lecturer at the University of Newcastle in health behaviour sciences. Martina is very pissed off and wants to rant about a diet called Bright Line Eating™ (BLE). It’s run by a woman called Susan Pearce Thompson who has almost become a guru and has tens of thousands of followers – mostly women in their just-pre- and post- menopausal years. The program is an eight-week bootcamp that costs $900 USD, which is probably about 13-1400 Australian dollars. It’s a diet based on no sugar, no flour, measuring meals, no snacks, and weighing everything. You become extremely hangry and Martina developed orthorexia and almost developed Anorexia when she was on it. Martina is fired up about paying a lot of money to this woman Susan Pearce Thompson who is a neuropsychologist and should have known better. The idea is that flour and sugar are addicting and you can’t have anything with those ingredients in it. Being on the diet made Martina a not-very-nice person who thought she was superior to other people. She was supported by the BLE community in thinking she WAS special and that she had found ‘the answer’. The weight regain that happened afterwards was quite disheartening, however she’s now two years out of that diet and feels so much happier. She does accept her larger body and enjoys all foods, enjoys sharing foods with friends and family, and is SO ANGRY at Susan Pearce Thompson and that stupid Bright Line Eating movement. Susan must be making about three million American dollars per year with all of her programs. So that’s the rant – sending everyone love and the hope that they can walk away from diet culture and embrace their natural bodies. No one is taking our Tim Tams! No one is taking our flour or our sugar. That was heartbreaking. We’re feeling for Martina. This flour-sugar bullshit is based on the food addiction models. There’s no such thing as food addiction! There IS such thing as an increased response to restraint, which is what happens when people try to restrict certain things – you will develop an unnatural drive relationship with that substance not because of restriction but because of restraint. How do these people sleep at night? They must be in this little bubble, either a numbing bubble or one where they have no freaking idea. Or … one full of cash? And surrounded by people who worship them because of that money and say positive stuff to them. We’re in a place in diet culture where weight loss at all costs is worshiped. Poor Martina ended up with an eating disorder that she paid dearly for, financially and psychologically. We’re in a new decade now and no one should have to fall for this bullshit, no matter how it’s packaged and sold. It’s dangerous stuff. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time out of their day to record a rant and send it in here to push back. These are really meaningful acts of rebellion, and we’re loving it. We’re riding a big wave of emotion – mostly rage, and a bit of heartbreak. Judging time! Let’s run back briefly through the candidates. First, we had Anna from Haven, who was fired up about body positivity being co-opted by marketing and was talking about Calvin Klein. Then we had Belinda, and she was talking about our libraries being infiltrated by diet and wellness books, and she was going to bring forth all the rage of Harry Potter (which Louise loved). Then we had Carolynne White, president of HAES Australia, ranting about how Big Pharma are pushing to get ‘largeness’ classified as a disease so they can sell drugs for weight loss. We have no words. And then we had the lovely Joanne and her beautiful rage and rant about 30-day challenges like Veganuary. Then we had our anonymous trifecta of misery, about dietitians and their detox teas, doctors prescribing weight loss instead of providing responsible medical care, and the hypnotherapist with the completely rip-off seminar on extremely low calorie diets. Again, no words. Then we had Mandy-Lee Noble with the hCG diet, and then Martina ending us on a real low point with the Bright Lines Eating evilness. What a totally Crappy line-up. OH my goodness, what is wrong with health professionals? This is gut-wrenching. We know from weight research that the vast majority of weight stigmatizing messaging comes from health professionals. We have shitty themes from health professionals, bullshit co-opting of body positive trends by the weight loss industry, and then we have just the real evil fuckery. Alyssa wants to give a special mention to Belinda for making her laugh-cry. Alyssa’s shortlist is Carolynne, the Anonymous submission, and Mandy (can’t get past those bloody injections!). And she’s kind of changed her criteria – how much rage came up in her while listening to the rant, and how much rage came through from the entrant. And there’s a kind of ‘mind-blown’ factor. Louise recalls learning about the ‘dry fast’ on Instagram (because ‘drinking water is an addiction’), and then finding a dude-bro drinking his own urine, and how those moments are a real ‘lowering the bar’, ‘going down another level’ experience. Never say never in diet culture. And the winner is (drumroll please) … Mandy-Lee Noble with the hCG diet! Bloody GP’s that are promoting it despite the FDA saying it’s a waste of freaking time. And the oil-free makeup thing! Jeez. Congratulations, Mandy-Lee! There’s a $100 cash prize this year, which seems like nothing after everything we’ve been talking about! Someone as awesome as Mandy-Lee will put it to good use. Alyssa is excited to pass on the crown to Mandy-Lee and move forward to ‘rage on’ in 2020. The mantle has been passed to someone of extreme strength of character, rage and sarcasm. Thank you, Alyssa, for holding us steady through the bullshit of 2019. And thank you to everybody who sent in these rants! It’s a beautiful thing to hear the rage, the push-back, the ferocity that everyone has displayed. Louise would give everyone first-place. Who would have thought ranting about diet culture would be a pleasant diversion from the rest of our lives during COVID-19? Please look after yourself and your families and loved ones, even if that has to be virtual for now.  

Progress, not perfection. Welcome back, everybody! I hope you're having a fantastic day, wherever you are right now. Today's episode is all about you and your health – Gaining an Edge: Physical Fitness for Leaders. Anybody who's been in a leadership role will know it's a critical element to your success. You're navigating a lot of uncertainty, a lot of the stresses that come with that – the overwhelm, the people, etc. Carolynne Simons is the Director at Stay Fit Plans, Inc., a triathlete, and an ambassador for Multisport Canada. She is extremely passionate about health and performance – she lives and breathes it, which is why she's sharing her expertise with us today. In this episode, we dive into: The physical and mental aspects of health, Strategies on how to find what works for you and your schedule, The benefits of using tools, devices and/or software Where and how to start, and a lot more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate us on Apple Podcasts! The Benefits of Physical Fitness for Leaders At Novo Nordisk, we're seeing physical education becoming a part of the culture. I get to be part of facilitating the journey of personal development. Where we can see some success there is when leaders finish up a workout, they just start nailing problem-solving, personal conflicts, strategy meetings, go better, generating ideas, and being flexible on outcomes. Find what works for you Because the industry is really shifting the way we exercise, using something to help you automate behavior is really great. Exercise is a 365-day thing – it's hard work, it's persistence, it's pain, failure, rejection, late nights. It's everything, depending on the level you take it to. “I need to be habit-forming now and get in my exercise for 20-30 mins, 3x/week, I'm going to start using something that's going to be able to give me that cue.” I find that really important. It has to be something that you like, and you also have to decide if you want this broadcasted or not. Getting it in during the workday is really important, I believe, if you have the flexibility to do that. But again, exercise, when it comes to the execution, is also knowing how to pull on your systems. Whether you know how to weight-train, go for a run, go to the gym and jump in the pool, I'm really and firmly rooted in being able to teach a variety of things so that person can pull on that system to make it work for their lifestyle. If you have that variety in your systems, and you know you're heading into an 8 o'clock work meeting, it's going to be a busy day – pull that 20-minute yoga practice right in there and get that to be the kickstart of your day. The importance of tools Looking at the metrics, I find showing it over time is critical, but I really am keen and enthusiastic when we actually show where the individual client's stress in the workout is comparably different when they started, especially if they're having difficulty understanding if they're making any progress. The software also sparks a little bit of intellect in the client, and it allows them to understand, “Wow, I'm taking this away from all my training? And now, I actually know exactly why my workout is paced like this in two days, why she's got me recovering in a day or two, and where we need to be hitting more breakthrough workouts.” The tools that we use are very much a collaborative approach, but I'm extremely keen on making sure that the client knows exactly where we're going.   Links and Resources Connect with Carolynne: LinkedIn https://stayfitplans.com/ The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss

This week my guest is the fierce and wonderful president of HAES Australia, Dr Carolynne White! A Facebook post from Headspace in Hervey Bay fired her (and many others) up when it claimed that eating sugary food causes mental health problems! As a mental health expert and anti-diet advocate, Carolynne knows how much this kind of messaging oversimplifies, stigmatises, and downright does damage. The fact that the SUGAR IS EVIL message is being spruiked by one of Australia’s leading adolescent mental health organisations is a worry. Particularly when it’s part of “The Push Up Challenge”, a fund raiser for Headspace which raises awareness about youth suicide by forcing people to do over a hundred push ups a day. Has anyone at Headspace heard of eating disorders? Why is encouraging excessive exercise in teens ok? Do they know how hung up young people are about body image and health? WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY THINKING!? Join us as we rant about this extremely ill advised campaign. The truth is, mental health and physical health just can’t be separated, and we need to be doing a lot more critical thinking to avoid doing harm! CW: Discussions about suicide, mental illness & eating disorders.     Show Notes     My guest this week is Dr Carolynne White, occupational therapist and health promotion lecturer. Through her professional experience and her PhD research, Carolynne has formed the strong opinion that good mental health is absolutely necessary to support good overall health. Carolynne is also the president of HAES Australia. Carolynne got all fired up about a facebook post from Headspace at Hervey Bay in Queensland, about a ‘push up challenge’ to raise awareness about suicide and to raise money for Headspace. Headspace is a very well funded network of mental health treatment centres for adolescents and young people. Headspace enjoy a lot of government funding here in Australia, and also gather a lot of attention in the media. Their Mission is ‘to provide tailored and holistic mental health support to young people aged 12-25”. They focus on early intervention and prevention of mental illness, as well as focusing on physical health as well. According to the website, the ‘push up challenge’ was started by a ‘bunch of mates’ passionate about the topic. The challenge involves doing 3128 push ups over the month of August - one for each life lost to suicide in 2017. This is a LOT of push ups - over 100 a day. Louise’s first thought - why are headspace supporting an initiative that uses the symptoms of a major mental illness - ie the compulsive exercise aspects of an eating disorder - to raise awareness of mental illness? It just seems very ill advised. Particularly when you consider that eating disorder have the highest mortality rate, particularly from suicide, among young people. The man who started the push up challenge is Nick Hudson, he’s from Perth. He’s a white Aussie bloke in his thirties. Louise found 2 media articles about him which said slightly different things. One said he had heart surgery as a child, and when he got older his fitness declined and he realised he needed more heart surgery. This made him depressed, and one of the ways he came out of the depression was to start this push up challenge. But then another news article which came out about the same time (and was accompanied by a truly awful ‘Fitspo on steroids’ picture) said that his father had suffered from depression for many years but had never told him. When he discovered the depression, he ‘did some research’  on mental health. Then he and his mates, who do push ups as part of their regular fitness regime, decided to turn it into something more. So it’s odd to have 2 such different stories out there in the media, normally people have just one story, but there you go. There is a level of privilege reflected in the message that in order to come out of depression you need to do a few push ups. It’s great that this happened for him, but many people need a lot more help than just exercise to recover from something as complex as depression. Plus, particularly with people that Louise sees in her practice, the LAST thing they need is to focus on counting push ups! The Hervey Bay Headspace post was particularly problematic because he was posting about the evils of sugar as well. He claimed that high intakes of sugar increase the likelihood of developing mental illness, and more severe symptoms of depression. This of course caused a furore ! Having worked in mental health, Carolynne thinks of the impact a message like this would have on an adolescent who might be struggling with their mental health, and how unhelpful it would be. The person who made this claim was a personal trainer, and obviously way outside of their scope of practice or expertise making claims like that. This post did attract a lot of push back from mental health experts. Particularly considering the vulnerability and age of the audience of Headspace! Australian teenagers are really hung up on issues of body image, health, etc, and we are seeing very high rates of eating disorder symptomatology which is being overlooked in this ‘health obsession epidemic’ that we’re all suffering from. The latest Mission Australia Youth Survey (2018) found that 30% of young people reported feeling ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ concerned about their mental health and their body image. These were equal concerns. Younger women reported higher levels of concern than younger men. Gender dynamics play into this. Thinking of a bloke modeling the push up challenge and the impact that might have on a teenage girl…. A paper that has just come in in 2019 looks at the point prevalence of eating disorders in young people in Australia. Data from 5000 Aussie teens aged 11-19 showed that 22.2% met diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder. That’s 1 in 5 kids! 1 in 3 Aussie kids have high levels of concern about their body image and 1 in 5 have diagnosable eating disorders. In girls, the eating disorder rate is 33.3% and in boys it’s 12%. This is a huge concern and we need to centre this in our public health messaging. The push up challenge is an extreme fitness challenge. Looking through the Instagram for the push up challenge, a very narrow range (ie very muscular physiques) are represented. If we couple that with the facebook post which moralises food, it creates an environment which compromises recovery for those suffering with eating disorders. Are the people at Headspace really thinking this through? The Headspace demographic includes very young teenagers who are still very much black and white thinkers. If a 13 year old comes across the Hervey Bay page with its comments on sugar, they don’t have the cognitive capacity to see any nuance or think critically about it. This message is coming from an authority figure and they are highly likely to view it as: do not eat sugar under any circumstances. This is everywhere in Louise’s clinical practice at the moment: young kids developing eating disorders following exposure to well meaning messages about the nutritional value of food. Basically, no-one in high school should watch ‘That Sugar Film’. Adolescence is the THE highest risk time for development of an eating disorder. 14 years old is the average age kids can develop one. This is the exact demographic of Headspace’s audience and for these type of social media messages to be demonising sugar and pushing compulsive exercise, it’s really not on. Headspace have done a great job promoting themselves as a safe place for people with diverse identities to go. They need to incorporate body diversity into their messaging as well, many teens suffering from mental illness will be in larger bodies and need to feel safe and included. All of the eating disorder statistics from the paper on point prevalence we just discussed are higher in kids with higher body weights. People in larger bodies have eating disorders more often than smaller people, but if Headspace is full of gymbunnies doing workouts….hello!? Headspace’s own website discusses eating disorders & their symptoms, with sentences beginning with “Excessive exercise is a symptom of an eating disorder”…  The push up challenge has raised $2.5 million for Headspace, which is phenomenal. It’s a great job - but the methods of fund raising definitely need to be worked on! Headspace do a great job in our community, but they are well funded. There are 107 Headspace centres around the country. They get $95 million a year from the Government, and have just been given another $50 million. And when a psychologist at headspace sees a teenager, they bill Medicare for the appointment. Many of the psychologists are contractors, not employees of Headspace, so they take a % of the Medicare subsidised fee as payment. Headspace do great work, but they are well funded. In comparison we have a desperate shortage of hospital beds for people suffering from severe eating disorders. So many areas of mental health are severely underserviced. It seems that the ‘popular’ ideas get funded. So - if anyone listening wants to raise funds for mental health don’t give it to Headspace, they’re doing alright! This whole push up challenge for Headspace runs on the idea that exercise is always good for mental health. And there’s a real push in mental health to include ‘lifestyle’, or physical health. Carolynne started her career as an Occupational Therapist in a maximum security hospital - as did Louise! When Carolynne started, a report came out of Western Australia which found a huge disparity between physical health of people with mental illness and those without, and the gap in life expectancy. Working in a prison hospital, you see people from all walks of life. People who have experienced extreme poverty, severe trauma, and mental illness, and all of that mixed up together has a huge impact on their physical health. In the past few years there has been increased attention to the physical health status of people with mental illness. The National Mental Health Commission drafted up a consensus statement, and the stats are just astounding. In Australia, 1 in 5 people have a mental illness, and 16% of Australians live with both a physical health condition and a mental illness. If you have both, your life expectancy is reduced by 15.9 years for men and 12 years for women. This is conservative: around the world, the gap can be as much as 20 years. It’s staggering - much more than cigarette smoking. A few years ago Carolynne took part in Partners in Recovery, an initiative for people living with mental illness. During this period, 3 of the people involved died. Carolynne initially thought it might have been suicide. On of them had taken their own life, but one had a heart attack and the other died in their sleep of ‘natural causes’. This is the general case: People with a mental illness who die early, usually die from physical causes other than suicide. The main causes are cardiometabolic: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. All of the issues often attributed to higher weight. In the search to improve health and mortality outcomes, the focus has unfortunately of course landed on people’s weight. Because this is just what people with mental health issues need - a good push up! People with mental illness are more likely than the general population to have a BMI over 35. And that’s not to do with not eating the ‘right’ food or not getting enough exercise! A lot has to do with medication related weight gain. People taking medication to take care of their mental health is really positive, and if a side effect of that is weight gain, focusing on that and ‘blaming’ people for poor lifestyle habits is unfair. Antipsychotic medications, bipolar meds, and some antidepressant medications can have weight gain as a side effect. Many people Louise speak with could benefit a lot from medication, but often hesitate because of fear of weight gain. Or, people choosing to go off medication which is benefitting their mental health because of weight gain. This really brings home the reality of weight stigma. The drive for thinness in our culture is valued above everything else. Carolynne had an experience of gaining weight after being put on medication for depression, which she found confronting as she had previously lived in an always thin body. It’s very understandable, but it makes her sad, as in our culture people’s mental health might be compromised because of that societal pressure. Imagine if we lived in a truly weight inclusive society how the experience of mental illness might be very different? There’s already stigma around mental illness. If you’re going to lump weight stigma on top of that it just compounds the disadvantage that people experience. If someone gets well from taking medication, but then comes to live in a larger body, and experiences weight based discrimination, it’s yet another experience of oppression, exclusion, and marginalisation which is extremely weathering to physical and mental health. Many of the organisations that champion physical health don’t think about mental health whatsoever. So they don’t think about the impact of their campaigns on people’s mental health. The idea of perpetuating weight stigma and the health impacts of that (both physical and mental) - it’s just not thought of. Given the numbers of people suffering with mental illness, it is not ok that they are not considered in these campaigns. Particularly when you consider that people with mental illness are more likely to get these conditions, mental health should be people’s first consideration. The fact that they’re not is another example of entrenched stigma. They’re just erased, not visible anywhere. It’s depressing. This concept of the mind and body being separate goes back to the 16th century, with French Philosopher Descartes who championed the separation of the body from the mind. This is known as Dualism. This is where it all started but we need to get out of the 16th century and into the 2000’s! Mind and body are not separate, and physical and mental health are not separate either. It is super dangerous when we do. Carolynne & Louise first met at an Eating Disorders and Obesity Conference in the Goldcoast, where Carolynne got told off for being ‘irresponsible’ for talking about her non-diet community intervention, and Fiona Willer got pointed at and shouted down by Prof John Dixon. At the conference they had a presentation on the “Live Lighter” campaign. They had a speaker from the Cancer Council talking about the campaign, and a speaker from an eating disorders organisation talking about how they could change their messaging to make it more supportive for people with eating disorders. They used a slide with a stick figure with its’ head cut off, and then another with the head back on, to talk about how a combined approach - one that included mind and body - was much better! This is pretty naive when you consider that people with mental illness will get cancer at about the same rate as people in the general population, but are more likely to die earlier of cancer - because they’re not screened early enough, or their surgeries either don’t happen or are delayed. This separation between mind and body has deadly consequences. There is awareness growing that we need to do something to mend this separation. The Equally Well consensus statement is a good example of this. Equally Well is an initiative which started in New Zealand, as a collective effort to get people on board to improve the physical health of people with mental illness. Equally Well is very much led by people with lived experience of mental illness. In Australia, Equally Well launched in 2017, and many organisations have signed up in partnership with them. Earlier this year HAES Australia signed up. In terms of weight-neutral, non-diet content, Equally Well are not there yet, but we need to be in there in order to influence and give input, so that diet culture and weight centrism doesn’t sink its teeth in! The good news is, Equally Well is definitely NOT funded by Novo Nordisk, so there’s no Big Pharma agenda trying to sell weight loss drugs out of this! Caro Swanson is a champion of Equally Well and a person with lived experience of mental illness. Caro did a keynote speech at the first Equally Well Symposium in Melbourne earlier in 2019, alongside Helen Lockett (‘the other lady! - sorry!!). Caro spoke about her experience of having ‘experts’ come in and take away her power. She was worried that Equally Well would be just like other initiatives and leave people with lived experience out. Caro made the excellent point that people with mental illness are already under a lot of scrutiny, and with the introduction of physical health focus ‘now you’re going to scrutinise the rest of our lives too.’ Carolynne gives the example of a man with schizophrenia living in a group home, who was being judged for eating chips and drinking Coke late at night. But this was the only food available for him to eat after a night shift. We must hold back judgements about people’s choices, and make the effort to understand their lives. Eating ‘well’ is actually a privilege, which not all of us have. Lots of people are doing the best they can to just eat regularly, and everyone needs to just back off! It’s really annoying to hear the story of the man with schizophrenia being judged for his food choices (which is really a judgement about his weight). Taking anti psychotic meds means he could eat kale morning, noon and night and still gain weight! It is not a ‘choice’ and the gain is not under his control. He is doing well to take his meds and strive for improved mental health. No-one enjoys hearing voices, it’s terrifying. If taking meds means increased weight, that needs to be ok. Caro made the excellent point “monthly girth measurements don’t do anything for my mental health’. Equally Well is a collective, lived-experience led, aimed at helping people living with mental illness improve their physical health in an equitable way. Caro’s stand against the weight-centric attitudes is awesome. We really need to ensure that things like waist measurements aren’t just blindly given for no reason: people need to give consent, and have the right to say no if focus on their weight is not comfortable for them. It’s great that HAES Australia are part of Equally Well, so we can really fight for a weight-neutral, inclusive approach to improving physical health for people with mental illness. One of the Equally Well statements says: “obesity is a major contributor to a range of common diseases including metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. People living with mental illness should be offered tailored support for weight management programs as part of routine care”. It doesn’t matter how ‘tailored’ the program is, weight ‘management’ does not work! This approach just ‘ticks the box’, but we really need to apply critical thought. Why are we doing this - what’s the efficacy? If it doesn’t work in the general population to lose weight long term, why on earth would they work in those with mental illness who may suffer multiple barriers, be more disadvantaged and live more disruptive lives? In mental health over the past few years there has been increased focus on recovery and hope. Dieting approaches are the opposite of that! They disempower and get people stuck in an endless cycle. There are so many beautiful pathways to improving health that have bugger all to do with weight. Health professionals need a lot more training in mental health, particularly trauma informed mental health care and an understanding of concepts such as social justice and privilege. It is very important that our efforts to help people don’t traumatise them further. We need to really listen to people’s lived experiences, because everyone is unique. We can’t forget how much awful stuff has been done to people in the name of helping their mental health! I think weight management programs are our modern day equivalent of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” style therapy. Naomi Wolf said that dieting is a powerful political sedative. Maybe one day Equally Well can face off against Obesity Australia! Medication research needs to be done to improve the metabolic side effects, the answer is not to just add in another weight loss medication to the mix. Donate to Equally Well - they will definitely not have a push up challenge! Health is so much more than doing a push up. Resources: The Headspace Hervey Bay FB post which stirred controversy (scroll to July 10th) HAES Australia website Dr Carolynne White’s research profile on the Swinburne University page. The Perth article which talked about Nick Hudson and his reasons to do The Push Up Challenge where he talked about his heart operations. The Triple White article which talked about Nick Hudson & his dad’s depression being the inspiration behind the Push Up Challenge (get a load of the extreme Fitspo image they chose to use…) The Push Up Challenge website The Mission Australia Youth Survey 2018 The Headspace website Details on Headspace funding The Lancet paper on the physical health of people with mental illness The eating disorder point prevalence in Australian adolescents paper The Equally Well Consensus statement An awesome interview with Caro Swanson and Helen Lockett. From Equally Well.  

This week my guest is the fierce and wonderful president of HAES Australia, Dr Carolynne White! A Facebook post from Headspace in Hervey Bay fired her (and many others) up when it claimed that eating sugary food causes mental health problems! As a mental health expert and anti-diet advocate, Carolynne knows how much this kind of messaging oversimplifies, stigmatises, and downright does damage. The fact that the SUGAR IS EVIL message is being spruiked by one of Australia’s leading adolescent mental health organisations is a worry. Particularly when it’s part of “The Push Up Challenge”, a fund raiser for Headspace which raises awareness about youth suicide by forcing people to do over a hundred push ups a day. Has anyone at Headspace heard of eating disorders? Why is encouraging excessive exercise in teens ok? Do they know how hung up young people are about body image and health? WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY THINKING!? Join us as we rant about this extremely ill advised campaign. The truth is, mental health and physical health just can’t be separated, and we need to be doing a lot more critical thinking to avoid doing harm! CW: Discussions about suicide, mental illness & eating disorders.     Show Notes     My guest this week is Dr Carolynne White, occupational therapist and health promotion lecturer. Through her professional experience and her PhD research, Carolynne has formed the strong opinion that good mental health is absolutely necessary to support good overall health. Carolynne is also the president of HAES Australia. Carolynne got all fired up about a facebook post from Headspace at Hervey Bay in Queensland, about a ‘push up challenge’ to raise awareness about suicide and to raise money for Headspace. Headspace is a very well funded network of mental health treatment centres for adolescents and young people. Headspace enjoy a lot of government funding here in Australia, and also gather a lot of attention in the media. Their Mission is ‘to provide tailored and holistic mental health support to young people aged 12-25”. They focus on early intervention and prevention of mental illness, as well as focusing on physical health as well. According to the website, the ‘push up challenge’ was started by a ‘bunch of mates’ passionate about the topic. The challenge involves doing 3128 push ups over the month of August - one for each life lost to suicide in 2017. This is a LOT of push ups - over 100 a day. Louise’s first thought - why are headspace supporting an initiative that uses the symptoms of a major mental illness - ie the compulsive exercise aspects of an eating disorder - to raise awareness of mental illness? It just seems very ill advised. Particularly when you consider that eating disorder have the highest mortality rate, particularly from suicide, among young people. The man who started the push up challenge is Nick Hudson, he’s from Perth. He’s a white Aussie bloke in his thirties. Louise found 2 media articles about him which said slightly different things. One said he had heart surgery as a child, and when he got older his fitness declined and he realised he needed more heart surgery. This made him depressed, and one of the ways he came out of the depression was to start this push up challenge. But then another news article which came out about the same time (and was accompanied by a truly awful ‘Fitspo on steroids’ picture) said that his father had suffered from depression for many years but had never told him. When he discovered the depression, he ‘did some research’  on mental health. Then he and his mates, who do push ups as part of their regular fitness regime, decided to turn it into something more. So it’s odd to have 2 such different stories out there in the media, normally people have just one story, but there you go. There is a level of privilege reflected in the message that in order to come out of depression you need to do a few push ups. It’s great that this happened for him, but many people need a lot more help than just exercise to recover from something as complex as depression. Plus, particularly with people that Louise sees in her practice, the LAST thing they need is to focus on counting push ups! The Hervey Bay Headspace post was particularly problematic because he was posting about the evils of sugar as well. He claimed that high intakes of sugar increase the likelihood of developing mental illness, and more severe symptoms of depression. This of course caused a furore ! Having worked in mental health, Carolynne thinks of the impact a message like this would have on an adolescent who might be struggling with their mental health, and how unhelpful it would be. The person who made this claim was a personal trainer, and obviously way outside of their scope of practice or expertise making claims like that. This post did attract a lot of push back from mental health experts. Particularly considering the vulnerability and age of the audience of Headspace! Australian teenagers are really hung up on issues of body image, health, etc, and we are seeing very high rates of eating disorder symptomatology which is being overlooked in this ‘health obsession epidemic’ that we’re all suffering from. The latest Mission Australia Youth Survey (2018) found that 30% of young people reported feeling ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ concerned about their mental health and their body image. These were equal concerns. Younger women reported higher levels of concern than younger men. Gender dynamics play into this. Thinking of a bloke modeling the push up challenge and the impact that might have on a teenage girl…. A paper that has just come in in 2019 looks at the point prevalence of eating disorders in young people in Australia. Data from 5000 Aussie teens aged 11-19 showed that 22.2% met diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder. That’s 1 in 5 kids! 1 in 3 Aussie kids have high levels of concern about their body image and 1 in 5 have diagnosable eating disorders. In girls, the eating disorder rate is 33.3% and in boys it’s 12%. This is a huge concern and we need to centre this in our public health messaging. The push up challenge is an extreme fitness challenge. Looking through the Instagram for the push up challenge, a very narrow range (ie very muscular physiques) are represented. If we couple that with the facebook post which moralises food, it creates an environment which compromises recovery for those suffering with eating disorders. Are the people at Headspace really thinking this through? The Headspace demographic includes very young teenagers who are still very much black and white thinkers. If a 13 year old comes across the Hervey Bay page with its comments on sugar, they don’t have the cognitive capacity to see any nuance or think critically about it. This message is coming from an authority figure and they are highly likely to view it as: do not eat sugar under any circumstances. This is everywhere in Louise’s clinical practice at the moment: young kids developing eating disorders following exposure to well meaning messages about the nutritional value of food. Basically, no-one in high school should watch ‘That Sugar Film’. Adolescence is the THE highest risk time for development of an eating disorder. 14 years old is the average age kids can develop one. This is the exact demographic of Headspace’s audience and for these type of social media messages to be demonising sugar and pushing compulsive exercise, it’s really not on. Headspace have done a great job promoting themselves as a safe place for people with diverse identities to go. They need to incorporate body diversity into their messaging as well, many teens suffering from mental illness will be in larger bodies and need to feel safe and included. All of the eating disorder statistics from the paper on point prevalence we just discussed are higher in kids with higher body weights. People in larger bodies have eating disorders more often than smaller people, but if Headspace is full of gymbunnies doing workouts….hello!? Headspace’s own website discusses eating disorders & their symptoms, with sentences beginning with “Excessive exercise is a symptom of an eating disorder”…  The push up challenge has raised $2.5 million for Headspace, which is phenomenal. It’s a great job - but the methods of fund raising definitely need to be worked on! Headspace do a great job in our community, but they are well funded. There are 107 Headspace centres around the country. They get $95 million a year from the Government, and have just been given another $50 million. And when a psychologist at headspace sees a teenager, they bill Medicare for the appointment. Many of the psychologists are contractors, not employees of Headspace, so they take a % of the Medicare subsidised fee as payment. Headspace do great work, but they are well funded. In comparison we have a desperate shortage of hospital beds for people suffering from severe eating disorders. So many areas of mental health are severely underserviced. It seems that the ‘popular’ ideas get funded. So - if anyone listening wants to raise funds for mental health don’t give it to Headspace, they’re doing alright! This whole push up challenge for Headspace runs on the idea that exercise is always good for mental health. And there’s a real push in mental health to include ‘lifestyle’, or physical health. Carolynne started her career as an Occupational Therapist in a maximum security hospital - as did Louise! When Carolynne started, a report came out of Western Australia which found a huge disparity between physical health of people with mental illness and those without, and the gap in life expectancy. Working in a prison hospital, you see people from all walks of life. People who have experienced extreme poverty, severe trauma, and mental illness, and all of that mixed up together has a huge impact on their physical health. In the past few years there has been increased attention to the physical health status of people with mental illness. The National Mental Health Commission drafted up a consensus statement, and the stats are just astounding. In Australia, 1 in 5 people have a mental illness, and 16% of Australians live with both a physical health condition and a mental illness. If you have both, your life expectancy is reduced by 15.9 years for men and 12 years for women. This is conservative: around the world, the gap can be as much as 20 years. It’s staggering - much more than cigarette smoking. A few years ago Carolynne took part in Partners in Recovery, an initiative for people living with mental illness. During this period, 3 of the people involved died. Carolynne initially thought it might have been suicide. On of them had taken their own life, but one had a heart attack and the other died in their sleep of ‘natural causes’. This is the general case: People with a mental illness who die early, usually die from physical causes other than suicide. The main causes are cardiometabolic: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. All of the issues often attributed to higher weight. In the search to improve health and mortality outcomes, the focus has unfortunately of course landed on people’s weight. Because this is just what people with mental health issues need - a good push up! People with mental illness are more likely than the general population to have a BMI over 35. And that’s not to do with not eating the ‘right’ food or not getting enough exercise! A lot has to do with medication related weight gain. People taking medication to take care of their mental health is really positive, and if a side effect of that is weight gain, focusing on that and ‘blaming’ people for poor lifestyle habits is unfair. Antipsychotic medications, bipolar meds, and some antidepressant medications can have weight gain as a side effect. Many people Louise speak with could benefit a lot from medication, but often hesitate because of fear of weight gain. Or, people choosing to go off medication which is benefitting their mental health because of weight gain. This really brings home the reality of weight stigma. The drive for thinness in our culture is valued above everything else. Carolynne had an experience of gaining weight after being put on medication for depression, which she found confronting as she had previously lived in an always thin body. It’s very understandable, but it makes her sad, as in our culture people’s mental health might be compromised because of that societal pressure. Imagine if we lived in a truly weight inclusive society how the experience of mental illness might be very different? There’s already stigma around mental illness. If you’re going to lump weight stigma on top of that it just compounds the disadvantage that people experience. If someone gets well from taking medication, but then comes to live in a larger body, and experiences weight based discrimination, it’s yet another experience of oppression, exclusion, and marginalisation which is extremely weathering to physical and mental health. Many of the organisations that champion physical health don’t think about mental health whatsoever. So they don’t think about the impact of their campaigns on people’s mental health. The idea of perpetuating weight stigma and the health impacts of that (both physical and mental) - it’s just not thought of. Given the numbers of people suffering with mental illness, it is not ok that they are not considered in these campaigns. Particularly when you consider that people with mental illness are more likely to get these conditions, mental health should be people’s first consideration. The fact that they’re not is another example of entrenched stigma. They’re just erased, not visible anywhere. It’s depressing. This concept of the mind and body being separate goes back to the 16th century, with French Philosopher Descartes who championed the separation of the body from the mind. This is known as Dualism. This is where it all started but we need to get out of the 16th century and into the 2000’s! Mind and body are not separate, and physical and mental health are not separate either. It is super dangerous when we do. Carolynne & Louise first met at an Eating Disorders and Obesity Conference in the Goldcoast, where Carolynne got told off for being ‘irresponsible’ for talking about her non-diet community intervention, and Fiona Willer got pointed at and shouted down by Prof John Dixon. At the conference they had a presentation on the “Live Lighter” campaign. They had a speaker from the Cancer Council talking about the campaign, and a speaker from an eating disorders organisation talking about how they could change their messaging to make it more supportive for people with eating disorders. They used a slide with a stick figure with its’ head cut off, and then another with the head back on, to talk about how a combined approach - one that included mind and body - was much better! This is pretty naive when you consider that people with mental illness will get cancer at about the same rate as people in the general population, but are more likely to die earlier of cancer - because they’re not screened early enough, or their surgeries either don’t happen or are delayed. This separation between mind and body has deadly consequences. There is awareness growing that we need to do something to mend this separation. The Equally Well consensus statement is a good example of this. Equally Well is an initiative which started in New Zealand, as a collective effort to get people on board to improve the physical health of people with mental illness. Equally Well is very much led by people with lived experience of mental illness. In Australia, Equally Well launched in 2017, and many organisations have signed up in partnership with them. Earlier this year HAES Australia signed up. In terms of weight-neutral, non-diet content, Equally Well are not there yet, but we need to be in there in order to influence and give input, so that diet culture and weight centrism doesn’t sink its teeth in! The good news is, Equally Well is definitely NOT funded by Novo Nordisk, so there’s no Big Pharma agenda trying to sell weight loss drugs out of this! Caro Swanson is a champion of Equally Well and a person with lived experience of mental illness. Caro did a keynote speech at the first Equally Well Symposium in Melbourne earlier in 2019, alongside Helen Lockett (‘the other lady! - sorry!!). Caro spoke about her experience of having ‘experts’ come in and take away her power. She was worried that Equally Well would be just like other initiatives and leave people with lived experience out. Caro made the excellent point that people with mental illness are already under a lot of scrutiny, and with the introduction of physical health focus ‘now you’re going to scrutinise the rest of our lives too.’ Carolynne gives the example of a man with schizophrenia living in a group home, who was being judged for eating chips and drinking Coke late at night. But this was the only food available for him to eat after a night shift. We must hold back judgements about people’s choices, and make the effort to understand their lives. Eating ‘well’ is actually a privilege, which not all of us have. Lots of people are doing the best they can to just eat regularly, and everyone needs to just back off! It’s really annoying to hear the story of the man with schizophrenia being judged for his food choices (which is really a judgement about his weight). Taking anti psychotic meds means he could eat kale morning, noon and night and still gain weight! It is not a ‘choice’ and the gain is not under his control. He is doing well to take his meds and strive for improved mental health. No-one enjoys hearing voices, it’s terrifying. If taking meds means increased weight, that needs to be ok. Caro made the excellent point “monthly girth measurements don’t do anything for my mental health’. Equally Well is a collective, lived-experience led, aimed at helping people living with mental illness improve their physical health in an equitable way. Caro’s stand against the weight-centric attitudes is awesome. We really need to ensure that things like waist measurements aren’t just blindly given for no reason: people need to give consent, and have the right to say no if focus on their weight is not comfortable for them. It’s great that HAES Australia are part of Equally Well, so we can really fight for a weight-neutral, inclusive approach to improving physical health for people with mental illness. One of the Equally Well statements says: “obesity is a major contributor to a range of common diseases including metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. People living with mental illness should be offered tailored support for weight management programs as part of routine care”. It doesn’t matter how ‘tailored’ the program is, weight ‘management’ does not work! This approach just ‘ticks the box’, but we really need to apply critical thought. Why are we doing this - what’s the efficacy? If it doesn’t work in the general population to lose weight long term, why on earth would they work in those with mental illness who may suffer multiple barriers, be more disadvantaged and live more disruptive lives? In mental health over the past few years there has been increased focus on recovery and hope. Dieting approaches are the opposite of that! They disempower and get people stuck in an endless cycle. There are so many beautiful pathways to improving health that have bugger all to do with weight. Health professionals need a lot more training in mental health, particularly trauma informed mental health care and an understanding of concepts such as social justice and privilege. It is very important that our efforts to help people don’t traumatise them further. We need to really listen to people’s lived experiences, because everyone is unique. We can’t forget how much awful stuff has been done to people in the name of helping their mental health! I think weight management programs are our modern day equivalent of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” style therapy. Naomi Wolf said that dieting is a powerful political sedative. Maybe one day Equally Well can face off against Obesity Australia! Medication research needs to be done to improve the metabolic side effects, the answer is not to just add in another weight loss medication to the mix. Donate to Equally Well - they will definitely not have a push up challenge! Health is so much more than doing a push up. Resources: The Headspace Hervey Bay FB post which stirred controversy (scroll to July 10th) HAES Australia website Dr Carolynne White’s research profile on the Swinburne University page. The Perth article which talked about Nick Hudson and his reasons to do The Push Up Challenge where he talked about his heart operations. The Triple White article which talked about Nick Hudson & his dad’s depression being the inspiration behind the Push Up Challenge (get a load of the extreme Fitspo image they chose to use…) The Push Up Challenge website The Mission Australia Youth Survey 2018 The Headspace website Details on Headspace funding The Lancet paper on the physical health of people with mental illness The eating disorder point prevalence in Australian adolescents paper The Equally Well Consensus statement An awesome interview with Caro Swanson and Helen Lockett. From Equally Well.  

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