Our Mental Health Rocks Podcast

This week James and Jules ask the question “where do ideas come from?” As humans we get ideas every single day. Some we follow and some we don’t. But where do they even start from in the first place? And how do we navigate the ideas database without taking on too much?

After catching up on the latest season of Stranger Things, James and Jules reflect on how we never know where an idea we have is going to take us. Is anything pre-written? Do we really know the outcome of that idea without following it? If we never follow it will we ever know? Join us today for episode 39

We all experience drama in our lives. When we do, it can be helpful to have someone show up in our world to help us without them dismissing what we are experiencing. In todays episode Jules and James explore what we all really need when drama happens and how helpful it is when our needs are met.

This weeks Jules’ shares here recent aeroplane experience and how it’s not the plane creating her experience.

When we have a story to tell, we can sometimes really enjoy it when others join in with us and help us bring our story to life even more. Other times this isn’t always helpful and can lead to us making our fears even more real than we would like. In todays episdoe Jules and James explore this and how it can be more helpful to put our story of suffering to one side and look at something else in order to ease our discomfort

What if there’s more than story in every experience we have? After an interesting trip to a restaurant, James and Jules explore exactly what is going on when we interact with other people and how any experience we have of them and them of us is ALWAYS coming from the inside and directly from that person.

What if we just loved our life? How would that look & feel? This week James and Jules explore the world of labels and how we end up making them really stick to us to a point we think they actually define who we are. Is it time to take your own labels off and live a life you love?

This week, James and Jules explore loneliness. How it feels to be lonely, how to help others when they’re lonely, how we don’t need to have answers to their loneliness, we can just need one very powerful question.

Meet Sue, a West Yorkshire based OMHR Ambassador out in the world helping teens with their mental health. Having grown up with parents struggling with their own mental health she has literally years of experience and wisdom to bring into others’ lives. Today we catch up with Sue to find out more about her Amazing work, her childhood and her own childlike ability that connects her so easily to the young people she works with

Meet Well-being Coach Ivana. She has been helping people throughout her life with their well-being and is now breaking into the the world of young people with her brand new Changemakers project - an after school workshop for young people to bring change into their own lives and the lives of others. In todays episode we hear Ivana’s amazing stories of children who have been impacted by the work she does with them. If you’d like to find out more about Ivana and her changemakers project you can reach out to her here: https://webofwellbeing.org [email protected] Instagram: @ivanaculham