Come home to your true nature; Embody The Wisdom Of Your Menstrual Cycle, Heal Across Your Soul’s Journey & Unify Your Divine Masculine and Feminine.
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Welcome to "Consumer Health Partnerships”, the podcast where healthcare meets human care. Our show is a compelling journey into the heart of human-centred reform, showcasing the power of collaboration between consumers and healthcare professionals to forge a more empathetic and effective health system in Australia. Who should tune in? This podcast is crafted for digital health professionals, clinicians, practice owners, and anyone invested in the future of healthcare. Whether you’re a season ...
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Radical Relating Through The Natural Voice, with Anthony Johnston
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55:24In our conversation, Anthony shares the essence of Singing in the Wild, his five-day retreat that I've been on twice (17 years ago and more recently just a few weeks ago). I had such a transformative time that I invited Anthony onto the podcast to share the genuine magic of this work! Many of us were told, somewhere along the way, that we couldn’t …
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Why ‘Letting Go’ Doesn't Work and What Actually Does
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9:11have you ever tried to ‘let go’ of behaviors that no longer serve you, only to find yourself repeating the same patterns? You're not alone. The popular advice to ‘release what no longer serves us’ or burning our troubles away on the full moon simply doesn't work—and there's a profound psychological reason why. What we're actually doing when we try …
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A Guided Practice To Energise Your Womb Center
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22:29This guided practice serves as both a foundational womb healing technique to energise your whole womb center and a diagnostic tool to understand your current relationship to your womb. You’ll learn to direct energy to each part of your womb system – the ovaries, tubes, the womb itself, cervix, and yoni (sacred space). As you breathe into each area,…
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From Patient Stories to Clinical Solutions: A Journey in FSHD Patient Empowerment
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49:42In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Emma Weatherley, Managing Director of FSHD Global Research Foundation, and Kalvin Hopper, an advocate and world-ranked wheelchair tennis player, about the beginning and impact of the CURE FSHD registry, a groundbreaking patient-led initiative designed to support clinical trials for Faci…
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Building Bridges: The Impact of the MND Lived Experience Network in Australia
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39:27In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with MND Ambassador and Chair of MND Research Collective Lived Experience, Jane Simpson and Julie Labra, Project Manager - National Lived Experience Model at MND Australia, about their National Motor Neurone Disease Lived Experience Network, a pioneering initiative aimed at bridging the gap …
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9 Ways Unresolved Attachment Trauma Affects How We 'Hold Space'
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29:21The phrase 'holding space' is immensely popular with those in therapeutic, healing, coaching, wellness, and women's circles, but what's really happening? I've investigated this over the last few years with those I've worked with and colleagues, and it turns out to be mainly trauma-driven. Holding is the opposite of what we're trying to be as we hea…
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The Citizen Leadership Research Project: Debra Letica and Dr Viktoria Stein on Integrated Care
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48:30In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Debra Letica, former carer and citizen leader, and Dr Viktoria Stein from the International Foundation for Integrated Care, about the Citizens Leadership Research Project. They highlight the significant role of citizen leaders in co-creating integrated care systems and the impact of gen…
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In this episode I explore the concept of becoming a genuine adult, what it means to develop emotional maturity and a grounded sense of self, what that looks like and feels like, and how we can do it in a way that increases our range of experience and expression. Often, we equate adulthood with age, assuming that reaching a certain number automatica…
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Consumer-Centred Digital Health: Belinda Swan and Harry Iles-Mann's Approach to My Health Record
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30:31In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Belinda Swan from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care and Harry Iles-Mann, Consumer Representative Advisor to the Digital Health Branch who discuss their My Health Record project and the importance of consumer partnerships in digital health initiatives. Belinda …
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Collaborative Efforts in Preterm Birth Prevention with Melanie McKenzie and Dr Chayel Klein
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31:39In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Melanie McKenzie from Harrison's Little Wings and Dr Chayel Klein an Obstetrician at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, on the Preterm Birth Prevention Collaborative. Melanie McKenzie and Dr Chayel Klein explored the collaborative efforts to reduce preterm and early term births th…
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Power of Co-Design in Healthcare: Insights from Dr. Jeremy Kerr and Anja Christoffersen
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45:20In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Anja Christoffersen from Champion Health Agency and Dr. Jeremy Kerr from QUT Design Lab about the importance and application of co-design in the healthcare sector. Anja and Jeremy share their extensive experience in co-designing health services and projects, highlighting the need for ge…
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Patient Voices Matter: Communication, Respect, and Partnership with Tracey Johnson, Dr Suzanne Williams and Veronica
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46:54In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Tracey Johnson (CEO of Inala Primary Care), Dr Suzanne Williams (Senior Clinician at Inala Primary Care), and Veronica (a longstanding patient of Inala Primary Care) about the importance of collaboration and communication in healthcare settings, particularly in the context of patient-cl…
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The Power of Co-design in Mental Health: Emma Hart and Clay Fletcher at Jacaranda Place
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31:43In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Clayton Fletcher, Consumer Carer Senior Consultant, and Emma Hart, the Director of Nursing from Child and Youth Mental Health Service at Children's Health Queensland, about the impact and importance of co-design in creating effective mental health care systems. Emma and Clayton discuss …
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Recalibrating Our Attachment Template: Incarnation To Birth
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27:10Our attachment template primarily determines how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world, and to recalibrate it, we need to work where it was formed: from incarnation, conception, in our Mother’s womb, to birth and our first year. Our attachment template is formed by the time we get to about 1. Key events, memories, and ways of relating usual…
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Partnering for Better Health: Co-Design Strategies with Anja Christoffersen and Adrienne Young
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25:22In this episode of Consumer Health Partnerships, we speak with Anja Christoffersen, founder of Champion Health Agency, and Dr Adrienne Young, dietitian researcher at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, about co-designing a co-design framework for Metro North Health in Queensland. They …
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Empowering Youth Voices in Healthcare: The Impact of Co-Design with Brianna McCoola and Jorǰa Campbell
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33:42Welcome to the first episode of Consumer Health Partnerships! We speak with Jorǰa Campbell and Brianna McCoola from Queensland Health about their collaborative experience in creating a Practice Guide to Adolescent and Young Adult Care. Discussing around the project's development, the co-creation process, and the importance of involving young people…
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Menopause, Hormones & Health with Salena Walker
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30:04Salena Walker; Herbalist, Naturapath and Nutritionist joins us to talk about what’s going on during menopause and how we can support ourselves with what we drink, eat, think and excrete! She talks us through what’s going on with our hormones, what we need to consider to take care of ourselves, plus herbs and supplements to support the transformatio…
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Healing Emotionally & Spiritually After Abortion
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26:55I want to set up the context for this episode because it’s so important that you know I’m sharing this from a place of love, years of experience working with women, compassion, understanding and no judgment. My perspective is non-religious, non-dogmatic, and most importantly – comes from an experience of working in an environment of respect. Here a…
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To heal our womb means to dissolve all the ‘stuff’ we’ve been holding in there, restore its true purpose and reconnect the whole womb centre with the rest of our system. To do this we need to consider six aspects: the physical womb the metaphysical womb gestation: time in our mothers’ womb the split of unified energy into masculine and feminine the…
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3 Core Issues That Hold Us Back & What To Do About Them
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45:27I explore 3 core issues that I see over and over again in my work, particularly with women. I describe how each particular aspect shows up, the root cause, and what to do about it. Perpetually Putting Others’ Needs Before Our Own THIS LOOKS LIKE A hypersensitivity to what others are feeling and what they possibly need. After very quickly and automa…
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The Hungry Mother: A Poem On Healing from Narcissistic Parenting
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6:53Have you ever felt an insatiable hunger for love and validation? In this episode, I explore ‘The Hungry Mother,’ a medicine poem that speaks to the experience of, and healing from, narcissistic parenting. Put simply, narcissistic parenting is where the parenting is all about the parent; the two main features of which are where the parent wants to b…
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We're excited to be launching the Consumer Health Partnerships Podcast! This is a show for healthcare stakeholders that spotlights the synergistic power of partnering with consumers to share a human-centred health system. We share inspiring stories and practical strategies from healthcare professionals at the forefront of embracing a human-centred …
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Reclaiming The Divine Masculine To Restore The Divine Feminine
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26:14Welcome to another episode where Kim and I discuss the growing divine feminine movement and its pitfalls… …as many women who are in this movement are struggling to turn ideas into reality, have a lack of internal authority and are using ‘the masculine’ as a dumping ground for traits that are not liked or deemed to be ‘feminine’. In the first half, …
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Ready to debunk some myths about your menstrual cycle? I talk about 6 of the most common myths in the realm of ‘womb work’ that are limiting our experience of what the menstrual cycle truly is, and get clear on what the antidotes are. PMS is not a foregone conclusion! Rather, it's an access point to our subconscious, a time to listen to and align w…
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The Root Cause Of Keeping One's Self Small
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26:33Many women I come across talk of keeping themselves small. It's one of the core wounds that women in particular struggle with. In this episode, Kim Barnard and I explore the 4 aspects that form the 'root system' that keep us living with tethers on our life force, and how to heal. There are several expressions of keeping ourselves small, which are (…
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It's Time To Shine: A Womb Medicine Poem Guided Practice
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5:54A short and sweet episode to share with you a Womb Medicine Poem to restore the beauty and wonder of the womb centre. It starts with a brief introduction, and then there's a guided practice to listen to the poem with your womb. I invite you to attune to the feel of the words, the energy, and the response from your womb. It’s a chance to dip your to…
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The Desecration Of The Word Woman Amidst Inclusivity
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11:42I applaud and welcome a more inclusive, accepting, loving world. To love each other in our unique expression is wonderful, it’s progress, it’s needed. However…I have noticed a very gradual eradication of the word WOMAN in women’s work. In reference to a woman’s cycle, I’ve seen the word WOMAN replaced with ‘menstruators’, ‘people with womb’s’, ‘peo…
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Kim Barnard @sacred.womban and I get together for a great chat about Perimenopause! I’m in perimenopause right now (at the time of recording) and share my experience and how it can be a time of accelerated growth and change to align with our deeper truth. Saying NO with no attachments The ability to respond rather than react The first signs of peri…
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Through oceans of time, women have been in some form of subjugated position and have looked outside of ourselves for our spiritual path and autonomy over our own bodies. This has resulted in a collective power imbalance that helps neither men nor women. Our collective dissociation from, general disgust with and medicalisation of the womb and menstr…
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Welcome back to the podcast after an 8 month break! I give an update on what’s been happening the last year, details of my move to Thailand and an update on The Sacred Womb Book. Below is a summary of THE Book 🙂 For millennia, women have been in a subjugated position. Handing on over our power for safety, protection, and money and care. And it’s no…
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What Is Dissociation? with Gordon Barclay
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45:15In this introduction to dissociation, Gordon talks us through: What is dissociation How do we know if we’re dissociating Starting to relate to what we have pushed away ‘Separating to connect’ & finding ways to respond to the patterns of reaction, rather than just reacting Low arousal dissociation and high arousal dissociation Why dissociation is th…
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