The Art of Authenticity
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Do you ever feel like who you are on the inside is different to the way you perform for other people on the outside? You should listen to this episode. M did beautifully moving artwork for a journal article that I was part of, called Barometers of the City. Published in Human Arenas, it is qualitative research using poetry by psychologists as cultural data. M reflects on the process of producing art, which for her is about personal expression, for an audience. She describes being hyperaware of what’s expected of her in the world and feeling that she does not match the expectations of others,...
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People Not Gender
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What would you ask a feminist psychologist? Dave asks about confidence in decision-making, and the ways we can all fall into traps of gendered normative behaviour.
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Asylum Seekers on PNG
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Cathy McGowan, politician, talks about the opportunity right now for Australian citizens to ask the government what their plans are for the remaining asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea and what it would take to have them transferred to New Zealand.
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Feminism and Counselling
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Sahra O'Doherty and Ruth Nelson talk about Tanya's question regarding how you weave feminism into counselling, about being a values-based therapist, and the embodiment of values.
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Patriarchy and mental health
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What would you ask a feminist psychologist? Ruth Nelson and Sahra O'Doherty respond to Jess's question about the effect of patriarchy on women's mental health, and how many problems stem from inequality?
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Uncomfortable Feelings
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Psychologist Sahra O’Doherty talks about mental health, emotions and counselling. Society teaches us to fear failing. Shame and guilt feel painful. Vulnerability is frightening. So to come and talk to a psychologist can take a lot of courage.
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Ballot Boxes and Witness K
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Elizabeth Biok, a legal monitor of the 1999 East Timorese Independence ballot, talks to the Creating Space Project about Witness K and his lawyer, who exposed Australia’s corrupt exploitation of Timor-Leste. Imprisoned, they face an unjust trial.
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Cultivating Openness
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The crisis of climate emergency faces us all and time is being wasted on fuelling hatred between religions. Cherie Heggie declared as a Bahá’í in 2015. What drew her to the faith is its belief that all the major religions of the world are from God.
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Midwifery
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One in three women in Australia giving birth experience labour as a traumatic event. Grace Jeffery, student midwife, talks about the importance of continuity of care throughout pregnancy, and helping women feel safe and empowered in labour.
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Midwifery
Creating Space Project
One in three women in Australia giving birth experience labour as a traumatic event. Grace Jeffery, student midwife, talks about the importance of continuity of care throughout pregnancy, and helping women feel safe and empowered in labour.
info_outline“I am the fourth generation of incredibly strong women.”
When Julia was four years old, she was run over by the family car and pronounced dead. Somehow, she was revived and recovered from the incident without lasting harm.
Julia Baird is the daughter of Nea Worrell, the amazing woman integral to the Drought Pantry at the Baradine Country Women’s Association, and previously interviewed on the podcast about the ways this drought, the worst in living memory, is impacting rural NSW, Australia.
Cut from the same cloth, Julia talks to the Creating Space Project about the strength of the women in her family, from her grandmother down to her own daughter.
She also talks about the faith that sustains her mother and sustains her, one that is linked to Mary MacKillop and the charism of the Josephite Sisters, also women of great strength.
“She [mum] just has this attitude – you just get on with life.. I think she got that from my nan.”
The intergenerational transmission of values is a process that I am very interested. Listening to Julia reflect on her family provides fascinating insight into the ways that families pass down an ethos of hard work, kindness, and never giving up.
“Mum always said “You just get on with it, you’re my daughter, you know what to do, get on with it.”
Family is one of the places where we shape a powerful sense of who we are, of our own identity, and this can be one of the forces that generates resilience in us.
“Through the telling of these stories and the acceptance of who we were as women, I really took on, “I’m Julia, I know who I am, I have this strength, I have this power.”