How to Help Siblings of Brothers and Sisters with Additional Needs with Linda Owen, Information Officer for the charity Sibs
Sibs is a charity which supports children and adults who grow up with a brother or sister with additional needs or a long term health condition. And Linda Owen is the rather brilliant, compassionate a...
29 Sep 202345min
Everyone's a Narcissist (apparently) with psychotherapist Mark Vahrmeyer
Welcome to episode 1 of Series 6A good few years ago, I started becoming aware of a term I'd hitherto not really heard much before, outside of my classics lessons: narcissism. Aside from all the s's m...
22 Sep 20231h 2min
Understanding Toddlers with child psychotherapist Rachel Melville-Thomas
A lot of people struggle with the toddler stage. Where have their lovely, compliant babies gone? I think it's got worse the later we leave parenthood and the more used we are to living in a world wher...
24 Apr 20231h 6min
Planning a Good Funeral with progressive funeral director Louise Winter
This is not a subject many of us discuss is it? Birth plans, maybe, weddings, definitely, but we will all die and we all need a send off, however small and modest.This episode isn't really about plann...
17 Apr 20231h
The Mechanics of Birth with Lead Research Midwife Amy Sutton Cole
The way labour and birth is depicted on film and TV has bugged me for some years and, I think, does little to make women feel empowered. This episode isn't about how or where to give birth - that's yo...
10 Apr 202354min
A Question of Trust with psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal
This is our first listener requested episode. "Joanne" (not her real name) asked us if we could do an episode on trust, after her husband had an affair. Although Joanne asked some specific questions (...
3 Apr 202341min
Talking about Rape and Sexual Assault with SARSVL CEO Katie Russell
This is a difficult subject, but an important one. I still get letters from people unsure whether they've been the survivor of sexual violence.My guest is Katie Russell, former media officer for Rape ...
27 Mar 202352min
What It Means To Belong with psychotherapist Mark Vahrmeyer
What does it mean to belong? What does it feel like? And does it even matter?I started asking myself this a few years ago, possibly because, as a child of immigrants, I wasn't sure I ever felt like I ...
20 Mar 202343min
