Afleveringen
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An interview with Margot Smith who is a registered counsellor trained in Equine Assisted Therapy (EAT), a specialised health and wellbeing modality that includes horses and nature to help people learn, grow and heal.Margot speaks about her own journey with loss, and how her horses offered a path to healing, that she could not have imagined possible. Margot offers on farm therapeutic sessions with connection with the horses in a way that feels safe and right. She says that people from all walks of life are drawn to EAT, sometimes through curiosity initially, but she says it can really help with issues like depression, anxiety, grief, loss, trauma, mental illness, neurodivergence, addiction, relationships and general self-improvement. If you want to check out Margots offerings or talk to her personally, you can contact her via www.pegasuswellbeing.com.au
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A wonderful conversation with Rose Sexton and Nicole Parker from End Stage Matters. They are both End of Life Doulas, and we're talking about Death As a Rite of Passage. Nic and Rose both speak about their own experiences with death, their professional background, what moves them to do this profound work, and the actions they are taking 'on the ground' in North East Victoria to improve death literacy. Death Cafes, Dying to Know Days, a Play - they're doing a lot of change work, opening up spaces for people to get educated about their choices. Rose is also a Palliative Care Nurse and Nick is both a Health Coach and a Counsellor. I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with these women and feel a lot more informed about what is possible. They touched on how poorly our culture handles education around death as well as the importance of preparing for the transition from this life to the next. I imagine we could go a lot deeper down some of the paths we touched on in this particular conversation.If you'd like to know more, you can contact Rose and Nic via www.endstagematters.com.au
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A fabulous chat with Lisa Patten, who is co-owner of Sud-Woofa's Dog Wash in Wodonga and also Ascent Health.
Lisa speaks about her personal experiences as a dog groomer and how she integrated essential oils into her work with her 'tricky' dogs, and ultimately moved to swapping out chemical products in her home with aromatherapy based ones for her families health and wellbeing. There's a side story that goes with this too, an auto immune disease that Lisa deals with ongoing, that is deemed to be connected with chemical build up in the system.
Lisa says, "That is my non-negotiable with Young Living, it's the cleaning products that I use Young Living for every month." She goes on to talk about specific essential oils she used to boost her immune system and treat her skin condition. "It (the oil blend she speaks about using) did more for me, did more for my skin in a month than every doctor had done for me in six months."
https://ascenthealth.com.au/
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I had a long chat with Nutta about self responsibility; being prepared for the unexpected, and being able to take care of yourself, feed and care for your family in the case of a natural disaster or something along those lines, instead of sitting around and waiting for the government to come and save you or fix it for you.We spoke about uncertainty, the dramatic nature of the news, the creation of fear through dramatisation, and touched on topics like;
the preparedness mindset generational differences family and community making do and going without fighting bushfires sustainability eating what's in season and sharing your bounty water and survival gender roles and the sacredness of family the fragility of the supply chain green energy and reliance on the electric grid"We had to take time off school to move through Ash Wednesday to protect the house. Droughts come and go, things happen. But as a young man in the 80s and 90s on a rural farm in Australia, nobody was coming to help you. Like nobody came to help you. You relied on yourself and your neighbours... That taught me that if you can't put your hand on it and you need it, you don't have it. That's right. And so the way of life of a small holding farmer, and it's always been the way, is you don't know what's coming in the future. So it's like that adage that I always use about hunting. You're going hunting for rabbits, but you're armed for bear because you don't know what the future holds...We have two generations that have no concept that you don't actually get to eat strawberries in the middle of summer. It's only because of globalisation and the fact that we can fly these things in from who knows where, to here so that we can have it... I remember as a kid, when there was that glut of fruit; the jams being made, the preserves, all the things. And if I've got it, I'm going to make, apple puree, apple pies, all that... Preparedness was instilled in rural communities."A long meandering chat that covered many 'hot' topics. Nutta has strong opinions about some things and you may not agree with him, and he is absolutely fine with that. By the same token, you may hear some things here, that cause you to take action that might hold you in good stead at some point along the way.
