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Notes on the Mind

Beth Green & Tom Pollard

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Exploring the outer edges of human experience through conversations with people who have lived with severe mental health problems. Co-hosts Beth and Tom both have a life-long interest in mental health, they have experienced their own issues and now work as Mental Health Social Workers in the NHS. They interview guests about going through experiences such as hallucinations, hearing voices and feeling suicidal.
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Conversations with change-makers from eco-friendly, ethical, environmental, mindful, sustainable and social impact backgrounds. Each week interviewees talk about their inner circle, wider circle and what makes their world go round. A podcast about connection, community and how we all impact one another & the world we live in. This Circular Life is hosted by Melissa Bowden the founder of A Circle Back, the online market place for gifts that give back. www.acircleback.com
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We talk to Steve Gilbert about how his mental health problems emerged as a teenager and developed in his early 20s, culminating in his detention in hospital under the Mental Health Act. We explore how experiences of racism, both in and out of healthcare, contribute to and perpetuate mental health difficulties and the work that Steve has been doing …
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We talk to Jonny Benjamin about how mental health problems he experienced from a young age culminated in a suicide attempt in his early 20s that shot him to public prominence, and how he has coped with this attention since. We explore how and why his mental health problems developed, and how he has come to terms with how close he came to ending his…
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In our second episode, we talk to Rai about her experience of unusual beliefs and hearing voices. We hear how these experiences began in Rai's childhood and culminated with a period of frequent admissions to hospital in her 20s; how she found alternative approaches to managing these experiences through the Hearing Voices Network; and the work she n…
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Episode 5 is an extra long wonderful one (it honestly could've been a days worth of chatter) with the incredible Laura Wellington, Director of The Wunderkind Group. The Wunderkind Group is a group of businesses including: In Good Company, Duke Street, Duke Makes, Test Bed Leeds and Sheaf St. Laura and James founded these fantastic companies support…
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*** After recording this first episode, we changed the name of the podcast from 'Notes on Madness' to 'Notes on the Mind' - you can read about why we made this decision here *** In our first episode we talk to Social Worker and "psychosis survivor" Ian about his experience of being detained under section after an episode of mania. We discuss how hi…
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Episode 4 is a lovely interview with Alice, one of the co-founders of Origin Africa. Origin Africa is the UK's first 100% not for profit fashion brand selling sustainable clothing to fund social impact projects in Africa. Tom and Alice founded the business in 2018. They are committed, along with their network of support and project leaders in Afric…
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In this episode Bini asks how to bring the experience of going beyond boundaries and being quite expansive in Meditation back into a relative and relevant form and follows up with a second question around the enquiry into- "who you are"? Jonni unpacks both offering a different perspective on a question that many are seeking to answer.…
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In this episode Julie asks one of the most important questions of the season regarding feeling overwhelmed and isolated because of divisive news and information circulating the internet. She asks how to best wake people up and Jonni sheds light on the un-sustainability of taking our life cues from outside of ourselves particularly from the news or …
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Episode 3 is a great conversation with Ocean, founder of Ocean's Therapy. Ocean studied a Bsc in clinical psychology at Royal Holloway and a MSc in mental health studies at King’s College. In January she launched her Instagram platform Ocean’s Therapy where she focuses on enhancing the normality of mental health struggles and wants de-stigmatise pr…
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Episode 2 is a wonderful conversation with Antonia and Jonny the founders of Nursem Skincare. It was such a pleasure to interview two wonderful souls. Antonia and Jonny set up Nursem, a caring hand cream brand, from the start to have purpose built into the business. We chat about the business and the time it's taken to get it started, the impact th…
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Welcome to series two of This Circular Life. This series kicks off with a brilliant conversation with Lynsey, founder of Little Box of Books. I feel really lucky to have had a long chat with Lynsey a founder, force for change and fellow lover of literature. Little Box of Books is a children's book company selling inclusive and diverse books, making…
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Episode 4 is an interview with Alice Forrest a marine biologist and and wildlife guide, researcher, divemaster, freediver and brilliant being. Alice and I talk about the world beneath the surface of the ocean and how it impacts every part of our lives, plastic pollution and mirco plastics, small changes, tiny houses and the power in community. What…
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In this ep our guest Shaunn asks Jonni’s perspective on using substances for accessing higher states of consciousness. Jonni shares a view of the pro’s and con’s the need to be honest about why we would trade them. Then Shaunn asks a bonus question for Jonni’s take on meditation reaching a critical mass in the mainstream. Both answers may not be wh…
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Our guest Harriet asks how do we break the habit of getting caught up in the doing so that we can come back to Being. Jonni explains that going against the mainstream requires being uncomfortable and requires diligence to resist the powerful pull of that current. He then shares about the power of action that is driven from a state of Being and the …
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Our Guest Nat Brooks describes the challenge of being more conscious and aware in her workplace environment and questions if staying in her role in TV industry will slow down or stop her personal growth. Jonni points out that she is uniquely positioned to be a champion for change. Remaining in the place of need can actually accelerate and assist th…
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In this episode our guest Cimarra asks for some advice on maintaining a meditation practice while being confronted with the emotional turbulence that can come with working through past trauma. Jonni encourages Cimarra to remember the reason why we are meditating and points out that the first phase of healing and recovery can be the purging of emoti…
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Our guest Lindon has been using the 1 giant mind app for a few months with great effect and asks Jonni what to expect from deepening his understanding and experience of meditation by learning with a teacher and how to bring the family along. Jonni offers insight into the intelligence that is structured within our awareness. How meditation enlivens …
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Our show producer Dan explains his familiarity with the way our thinking can seemingly create fear in the body more easily than love chemistry and asks, why are we afraid of love? Jonni highlights that it isn’t necessarily thinking that creates the body sensations that we refer to as fear, nor absolutely body sensations that create fear based think…
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Our host Skye Tipler asks “Why do I avoid my second meditation”. Jonni asks her to explain the reason she thinks she avoids it which reveals an underlying fear that becoming all that is possible might render her irrelevant in her role in life. Jonni unpacks the reasons why we self sabotage and place an upper limit on our potential such as fear of r…
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Episode 3 is an interview with Anna Brightman Co-Founder of Up Circle Beauty. Up Circle Beauty is an innovative, forward thinking beauty brand sourcing and rescuing by-products from other industries – the food and drink industry in particular - to make their products. Their ultimate mission is to leave the world better than they found it by transfo…
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Our guest Sam asks if we need to cultivate a level of non-attachment in response to the amount of suffering in the world. Jonni speaks about the need for us to stay connected and practice compassion in place of detachment, understanding that the individuals acting in ignorance are part of a larger problem and not the source of it. He also points ou…
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Rachael asks if her ability to witness her experience and quickly move through emotional difficulty with a knowingness that everything is going to be ok is preventing her from feeling on a deeper level. Jonni offers the perspective that if we are “doing the work” any suppression of emotion will be short lived and that if the intelligence of the bod…
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Episode 2 is an interview with Des Bowden, a Kenyan based founder of Kuruwitu Conservation and Welfare Association and the Ocean's Alive Trust. Kuruwitu is the first locally managed marine area in Kenya. Des works to protect and enhance Kenya's oceans by strengthening coastal communities through education, conservation and entrepreneurship. Des and…
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