Mastering Change | The trauma, mental health & wellbeing podcast
Mastering Change | The trauma, mental health & wellbeing podcast
Podcast Description
Welcome to Mastering Change, a podcast co-hosted by Emma and Araminta, where we engage in meaningful conversations centred around healing. In this series, we bring together leading experts, innovative thinkers, and emerging voices to connect knowledge with real-world impact in the areas of trauma, mental health and wellbeing. Each episode features insightful discussions with respected figures as well as promising new contributors to the field. We explore a range of topics with a focus on making this knowledge available for anyone interested in supporting their own healing journey or that of others. At Mastering Change, we understand the significance of conversation as a means of fostering understanding and growth. Our aim is to create a ripple effect, facilitating the transfer of knowledge and establishing a community where impactful voices are heard. Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to the field, we invite you to engage in thoughtful discussions that can inspire meaningful change in your practice and personal life. Join us as we explore critical insights and perspectives, encouraging a shared commitment to healing trauma.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes related to trauma, mental health, and wellbeing, with episodes discussing varied topics such as the impact of early-life experiences on mental health, the intersection of psychotherapy and art, the complexities of sleep disorders, and ancestral trauma. For example, episodes cover the influence of NICU experiences on long-term health and the healing potential of creativity in psychotherapy.
Welcome to Mastering Change, a podcast co-hosted by Emma and Araminta, where we engage in meaningful conversations centred around healing. In this series, we bring together leading experts, innovative thinkers, and emerging voices to connect knowledge with real-world impact in the areas of trauma, mental health and wellbeing.
Each episode features insightful discussions with respected figures as well as promising new contributors to the field. We explore a range of topics with a focus on making this knowledge available for anyone interested in supporting their own healing journey or that of others.
At Mastering Change, we understand the significance of conversation as a means of fostering understanding and growth. Our aim is to create a ripple effect, facilitating the transfer of knowledge and establishing a community where impactful voices are heard.
Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to the field, we invite you to engage in thoughtful discussions that can inspire meaningful change in your practice and personal life. Join us as we explore critical insights and perspectives, encouraging a shared commitment to healing trauma.
Everything is connected. Diversity is essential for survival. And living systems have feedback mechanisms that tell us when something is out of balance.
What might happen if we applied these principles of ecology to mental health?
This week on Mastering Change, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Joanna Cheek introduces us to the idea of an “ecology of health” – a way of looking beyond the individual to understand our wellbeing in the context of our relationships, communities, social structures and wider environment.
One idea particularly stayed with us: distress can be feedback.
In trauma-informed care, we have learned to move beyond asking “What’s wrong with you?” towards “What happened to you?” Joanna invites us to widen the lens further. What is happening around us? What systems are we part of? And could some of the feelings we are trying to eliminate actually be signalling that something is out of balance?
It opens up a fascinating conversation about where individual healing meets collective wellbeing – and whether caring for ourselves can ever be entirely separated from caring for the world around us.
We explore:
- What the principles of ecology can teach us about mental health
- Why distress can sometimes be understood as feedback rather than dysfunction
- How “What happened to you?” can widen to include the systems around us
- Why focusing solely on the individual can leave important causes of distress unseen
- The relationship between our individual and collective wellbeing
- Why diversity and connection matter for healthy living systems
- What changes when we see self-care and collective care as interconnected
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