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!
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
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...

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...

S1E13 – Disability and mental health, with Professor Tom Shakespeare
twitterfacebook Are mental health problems a ‘disability’? We chat with Professor Tom Shakespeare about the relationship between concepts of disability and mental health. Tom is Professor of Disability Research at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has...

S1E12 – Speaking publicly about your mental health, with Kema Sikazwe
twitterfacebookKema Sikawe recently appeared in a BBC 3 documentary: Therapy: Tough Talking in which he gives viewers a front-row seat at a series of therapy sessions where he opens up and discusses his mental health challenges. Kema, who is also known as Kema Kay, is...

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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