Lively Minds

Led by people with lived experience, Lively Minds is a UK-based podcast about mental health challenges that go beyond the ebb and flow of the everyday.

We release a new episode every other Wednesday at 6am U.K time!

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Hosts: Ellie Page and Will Sadler present a fornightly show that is less about how we deal with our mental health problems, and more about how we understand them in the first place.

In our first season, we will be talking with Clinical Psychologist Karen Lowinger about High Functioning Mental Health problems, therapist and fellow podcaster Stuart Ralph about one of the most misunderstood of all mental health conditions: OCD, Professor William Tov about the definition of happiness, Jake Dunn about men’s mental health groups and the responsibility of communities to look after one another’s mental wellbeing, Dolly Sen about whether ‘mental illness’ even exists and Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen about how mental health intersects with spirituality and gender.

Will and Ellie speak about mental health entirely from their lived experiences. This podcast does not constitute medical or therapeutic advice and is not a replacement for seeking professional help. You can find signposting to support below.

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Latest Episodes

S1E15 – Mental Health Hospital (part 1), with Ellie Page

S1E15 – Mental Health Hospital (part 1), with Ellie Page

twitterfacebookWhat is it like to be admitted to mental health hospital? What does it mean to be “sectioned”?  Over the next couple of episodes, Will shall be chatting to Ellie about her experiences of both being admitted to and working in mental health hospitals. In...

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S1E15 – Mental Health Hospital (part 1), with Ellie Page

S1E14 – Trauma, with Amanda Marples

twitterfacebookWhat is Trauma? In today’s episode we are chatting to Amanda Marples, who is a writer, social worker and mentor with over twenty years experience in community mental health.  We will be discussing her new book: "The Healing Workbook". Published...

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S1E15 – Mental Health Hospital (part 1), with Ellie Page

S1E11 – Decolonising mental health, with Dr Arya Thampuran

twitterfacebookIn a world dominated by Western approaches to psychiatric health, what does the non-Western world offer in terms of alternative interpretations of our mental health experiences? In today’s episode we are talking to Dr. Arya Thampuran, a researcher from...

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Lively Minds is an Anya Media //// Still Ill OK co-production

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I make podcasts

I have co-produced and mixed programmes for the BBC. I help people and organisations to create their own shows.

I make films

I make video trailers for podcasts, events and websites and create short films to excite, educate and inform.

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