Episode Twenty two: WE ARE LIKE WAVES
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This episode I chat with Jordyn Romero, she is a award winning filmmaker from Santa Fe, NM. Her work aims to elevate the female narrative in the outdoor space.
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Episode Twenty One: Gender Equality In Sport: Playing The Long Game
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In this episode I have the pleasure of chatting with Bethan Taylor Swaine. Bethan is a PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London where she studies the representations and identities of women in ultra running. This episode we delve into what it means to be a woman in sport, the history of how we are encouraged to participate. How men are better facilitated to achieve success. That essentially men still dominate sport and are also the gatekeepers to it.
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Episode Twenty: Creative Nature for Wellbeing, SMHAF 2021
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This episode is a collaboration with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2021. I chat with Kate Stevens, the Creative Learning Co-ordinator, at the Beacons arts centre, a contemporary theatre and arts venue in the heart of Inverclyde. Kate's one of the workshop facilitators of a series called, creative nature for wellbeing that ran during this year's festival. I get to try out a couple of these exercises with Kate, exploring the connection between our mental health and our relationship with nature
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Episode Nineteen: ROOM ON THE BOARD FOR EVERYONE: International Surf Therapy
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In this episode I meet and share space with Kris Primacio, who currently serves as the CEO of the International Surf Therapy Organisation (ISTO), a Nonprofit she co-founded in 2017 in Cape Town. You are going to hear stories about sea otters, dolphins, the healing power of mother ocean, about how surf therapy can both heal and unite in a common goal. We also chat about belonging, access, equity and inclusion in the water including racism and historic segregation and why this needs to be addressed.
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Episode Eighteen: RACIST BRITAIN, Tales From a Small Island
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In this episode I chat with artist and activist Karlie Wu, her work delves into the identity of being British/Scottish-Chinese. Karlie is one of the founding members of besea.n, a non-profit, anti-racism grassroots organisation that tackles negative stereotypes and advocates positive media representation of East and South East Asian people in the UK.
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Episode Seventeen: Dermatillomania- PICKING RECOVERY
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Kirsty Alexander is a teacher on the Applied Gender Studies programme at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and a gardener at Ochil Tower School in Auchterarder. She talks with me about living with Dermatillomania. Otherwise known as Excoriation or skin picking disorder. Kirsty’s allows us to hear her journey from diagnosis to acceptance and parts of what came before and after. We talk about behaviours that are developed because of anxiety following catastrophic events as a way of coping.
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Episode Sixteen: Home School Dropout
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In this episode I chat to Viana Maya and Karsten Huttenhain both of pRESPECT, an organisation that through the ethos of Respect, Empowerment and Empathy aim to is to empower minority ethnic and other marginalised people into meaningful employment. This podcast episode will not tell you how to ‘home school’ properly, it's not about study tips and goal setting but, about giving space and time to acknowledge how we are approaching, surviving, not coping with this winter lockdown.
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Episode Fifteen: WE GO OUTSIDE TOO
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In the episode, I chat to Marlon Patrice founder of Wegooutsidetoo, a UK-based organisation that hopes to encourage, support, and inspire the black community into outdoor activity, exercise, and the multiple benefits of nature.
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Episode Fourteen: MENTAL HEALTH SWIMS
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In part five of a mini-series on wild swimming health and healing. I chat with Rachel Ashe the founder of mental health swims. A UK based organisation encouraging people to dive into outdoor swimming, supporting people gain the benefits of cold water and community.
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Episode Thirteen: DO YOU BELIEVE?
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In this episode you are invited to join my newly formed coven of amateur Edinburgh witches. I am fascinated by the practices of Witchcraft, Wicca, Shamanism, magic and the connection between nature and spirituality. I am curious if rituals in our daily life connect and or disconnect us from our spirituality. A group of friends and I experiment with ancient rituals. We perform a Celtic Cacao ceremony and a Fire ceremony and some tarot cards, you get to hear how some of our beliefs have been formed.
info_outlineIn the episode, I chat to Marlon Patrice founder of Wegooutsidetoo, a UK-based organisation that hopes to encourage, support, and inspire the black community into outdoor activity, exercise, and the multiple benefits of nature.
Marlon is a long-distance runner, mental health first aider, and owner of a natural health store.
Brought up in the city of Birmingham Marlon has always been drawn to the great outdoors and the benefits of nature, but it was the tragic passing of his son in a knife crime incident at the beginning of 2020 that lead him to create wegooutsidetoo. In honor of his son, Marlon set up a 22 waterfalls challenge and Go fund me page.
Marlon wants to encourage everyone outside and we discuss how this can help us through during times of lockdown and with the effects of COVID-19. He is especially passionate about taking people who have grown up in inner-city areas and have never had to opportunity to access the countryside.
Marlon and I chat about bereavement, connecting with nature, discrimination and being the only non-white person in some of the sporting events he participated in.
Marlon gives me some advice on how to use teas and tinctures for sleep, low iron, muscle, and joint pain, and the immune system and tells me about how he set up his store.
For Marlon, Wegooutsidetoo is about creating memories and experiences and creating solidarity and unity into the black community with nature. He wants to see people accessing the outdoors regardless of racial, socio-economic and physical barriers.
If you would like to check out Marlon's go fund me page you can here: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/wegooutsidetoo22waterfallchallenge
Or follow @wegooutsidetoo and @patreesherbsandwellness over on Instagram.