In this episode we cover:

• The internal and external pressure on teenagers to excel in school
• The impact of family breakdown upon young people
• How parents can be there to support their young people going through mental ill health
• Breaking the stigma about seeking inpatient treatment
• How shame and self-judgment could be keeping us sick, and how hitting the ego’s breaking point and leaving pride behind can be the first step to healing
• The impact of those who die by suicide

Mitch Wallis speaks to Matthew Mitcham, Olympic diving champion on battling addiction and channeling that into winning.

In this episode we cover:

• Getting stuck in the cycle of shame and addiction.
• What it takes to get clean and stay clean after dependence on narcotics.
• The unstable landscape of attaching your self-worth to achievement and external validation.
• What comes next after you've become the best? Navigating the blues after loss.
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Trigger Warnings: this episode references sexual violence, suicidal ideation, paedophilia, sexual assault, intrusive thoughts including sexual, violent and homicidal.

Mitch Wallis speaks to Dr Lena who's brave disclosure of navigating her intrusive OCD encourages him to share the parts of his mental health story that he has never told before.

This episode covers:

• How OCD when experienced as sexual and/or violent intrusive thoughts can confront your morality and attack your sense of self.
• Her terrifying intrusive thoughts that we're trying to convince her to harm herself and others.
• The nature of Mitch's intrusive thoughts including the catalytic childhood event, and how it shaped his life, even to the point where he thought he could never have kids.
• Coping with the loneliness caused by the perpetual war between how we present externally and what we’re experiencing internally.
• How OCD and compulsive behaviours can provide some relief to neutralise the destructive and intrusive thoughts.
• How exposure therapy and acceptance commitment therapy helped bring some relief to the pain of OCD.
• When the doctor becomes the patient. Breaking the stigma that those who help others, don't suffer.

Mitch Wallis speaks to Amrei Marden, a German-Australian yoga teacher, with an amazing story of resilience.

This episode covers:

• Experiencing PTSD post war and the responses that haunted her.
• Losing material possessions & her safe space in the Australian Bush-fires.
• How to build resilience and disrupt the victim cycle by exploring, owning and releasing the pain.
• The death of ego - what happens when your identity is taken away and how do you rebuild?

Mitch Wallis speaks to Costa Zacharia, a well known Sydney barber with a huge heart, who shares a lesson for all of us on finding the courage to be who we really are.

In this episode we cover:

• Learning to love himself for who he is, as a proud gay man.
• The battle to express his true self in the face of religion and its views on sexuality.
• What it was like to experience the moment of acceptance from his father, and how he learned to dance with his demons.
• How to find courage to be who we really are, regardless of sexuality or lifestyle.