This IS My Brave Australia Mental Health Podcasts: Recent Episodes
Tim Daly
This Is My Brave Australia is dedicated to breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness one story at a time. Our podcasts are stories from the community of lived experience of mental illness and recovery.
Shane Rattenbury is the Greens leader in the ACT Legislative Assembly and amongst his many portfolio's he is also the ACT Minister for Mental Health. We talk with Shane across many areas of the mental health environment in Canberra. How the bush-fires, hail storms and Covid-19 have affected Canberran's, the recent ACT Mental Health spending package, the Office of Mental Health and Wellbeing, social derteminants of mental health, peer workforce's, ACT Recovery College, the establishment of Safe Haven centres in Canberra and the first national meeting of mental health ministers in Australia.
Tara Apps works for Marathon Health as a Care Co-Ordinator and Social and Emotional Well Being Officer for aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in Yass NSW and the Australian Capital Territory. Tara indentifies as an aboriginal woman from Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal country.
Our guest today is Lisa Mossman
I first met Lisa when she auditioned for our Central Coast TIMBA show last year. Lisa shared her story of her lived experience on stage dressed as an Armadillo. I will let Lisa explain that one.
Lisa has gone on to start the J&B Foundation on the Central Coast and established the Therapuetic Garden Space at Epicentre at San Remo on the Central Coast
After over a decade as a paramedic, Lisa experienced PTSD, Anxiety and Depression which prematurely ended her career. Lisa's recovery and subsequent post traumatic growth has profoundly changed her life, for the better.
Lisa founded Freedom Mindset Training in 2018 She shares her expertise in areas of mental health, self-care and Neuro-Linguistic Programming both Live and online.
She is also a regular guest presenter and has a successful working relationship with Victoria Police as a Community Encounters volunteer and other organisations particularly related to her passion for front line mental health care.
Lisa is a contributing author in the Amazon Number 1 Bestseller, ‘Changemakers: IWD edition’. Changemakers and her e-book “3 Keys to Outgrow Trauma: an alternative perspective from lived experience” are available via her website lisawestgate .com