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Ally 🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Co-host of @itsnotwhatyouthink_pod
MC 🎤 Advocate ❤️ NDIS worker
Former CEO of @standupeventsmelbourne

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Angie Greene’s OCD is not a fun little quirk.

It’s something that she wouldn’t wish on her worst enemy.

If you have OCD, or love someone who does, we hope this episode helps you to feel seen, and less alone.

Comment “OCD” and we’ll send you the full episode. by @gagagreene

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WE’RE BACK ON THE FRONT PAGE!! 🎉

Navigating love requires communication and compromise at the best of times, but what happens when your brain is wired completely differently to your partner’s? 🧠💓

For a long time, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder and OCD went undiagnosed and heavily stigmatised. But as Aussies are uncovering their neurodivergence later in life and speaking out more openly about their mental health, it’s also changing how we love.

It was my absolute honour to speak to five individuals and couples who are proving that having a “different brain structure” is not a barrier to love, but a blueprint for deeper connection. Thank you so much to @danielle_kutchel_journalist , @christinakeebleconsulting, @gagagreene, Dov and Katya (and your partners) for sharing your journeys and trusting me with such personal anecdotes from your lives.

Your lived experiences prove that love works best when we stop trying to conform — stories we could all use a little more of 🥰

And as always, thanks for your expertise and important insights @therelationshipspace, @blakemortimerrobyn, @adhd_mums and @instatebbey 🫶

Live now on @newscorpaus websites!

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#neurodivergent #loveonthespectrum #mentalhealthstigma #relationships #ocdawareness by @gagagreene

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4 months ago

Thank you @ruby_kranertucci for holding this interview with such kindness and consideration 💕

I know there’s a lot of chat around mental health and everyone is on their own journey with understanding it or experiencing it. One of the only reasons I am so open about mental health with articles like this and doing the @itsnotwhatyouthink_pod is because I will never forget the decades of truely believing that there was not one person who had a brain like mine, or experienced life like I do.

With that comes an all consuming feeling of fear, pain and loneliness.

Then my world changed when I heard @penny_moodie speak about her OCD and it was the first time IN MY LIFE (at 33 - I’m now 39) that I had ever heard someone present the way I did and for the first time IN MY LIFE - I felt validated, seen and hopeful. And it was life changing. And that’s it .. that’s why people share their stories. Because we know in our cells how lonely it can feel/be.

OCD is barely something people with OCD can explain - so we understand that it’s even harder for NON-OCDers to understand. And when you DO meet someone with OCD, you don’t have to explain anything.
You get it.
They get it.
There’s no shame.
No judgement.
No having to explain the depths and depths of how insidious this disorder is (and even if you do, you know that you haven’t even scratched the surface).

Enter a late diagnosis of Combined ADHD and honouring the grief of what you’ve missed because you’ve felt like your brain doesn’t belong in your body, or you can’t work out how to make it work for you … F*****g hell. I just never ever want people to feel alone in their experience.

Visibility - for me - is always for the people who are terrified that there’s no one else like them. It may be lonely at times but I absolutely promise you that you’re never alone 💕 and there can be / is so much joy in the cracks of life ❤️

To @samtlees Thank you for loving me exactly as I am.

#ocd #mentalhealth #combinedadhd #rocd #visibility by @gagagreene

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4 months ago

NUMBER 15 ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST 🍾🩵🍾🩵🍾🩵🍾🩵🍾🩵🍾

I MCd @camsullivanwrites book launch last week and KNEW this book was special. And then I got word this morning that he’s Number 15 on the NYT best seller list. This is insane for anyone, let alone an Australian first time publisher.

Doesn’t matter what realm/genre of book you’re into. This book has everything and I am just so so incredibly proud of you Cam. This is just INSANE!!!

I promise you - buy it, order it, recommend it to your book club. THIS is the book.

YYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY 🌈😭🩵

#theredwinter #books #reading by @gagagreene

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7 months ago

This could NOT have gone LESS like I wanted it to.

I wish I was savvy and knew how to create like a montage of all the beautiful memories and photos that have consumed my photo album for the last 11 years … to encapsulate what @standupeventsmelbourne was, the people we met, what we achieved/tried to achieve and the joy and passion behind all the celebrations that brought the LGBTiQA+ community and its allies together.

Thank you to everyone who believed in our mission. All we ever wanted to do was to create safe spaces, for anyone to be unapologetically themselves, without fear.

I met some of the most amazing people, who will be in my life forever. Thank you 💖

I thank those in the community who let me walk side by side with them. To those who shared secrets and stories with me - It has been a privilege to be someone you trust and I hope I can still be that person for people, whether I know you or not.

Too many people to talk about.
Too many people to thank.
I’m a bit overwhelmed right now and don’t really know or have the right words. But from the depths of my soul - thank you so much to each and every person who made Stand Up what it was. I wish it could have been more.

Being an Ally has never a profession for me. It is who I am. And that’s not going anywhere.

Love you all so much xx

Also - to NO ONES surprise - I wanted to put this on the Stand Up account but I can’t get into it since I went swimming with my phone a couple of months ago 👁️ by @gagagreene

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8 months ago

It is such an insane privilege to be a guest in the LGBTIQA+ space 🌈🩵

Listening to amazing panelists @mitchbrownie @lydsaussie13 Ellia Green (unable to tag him) this morning at the #AOpride breakfast brings me so much joy and hope for humanity and for my own children 🫶🏻

MCD by the beautiful @caseydellacqua who touched on her own story 🩷🩷🩷 #iloveyou

THE GLAM SLAM is THIS Sunday and is filled with community, allies, celebration and fun. 2pm at the AO.

#beyou by @gagagreene

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8 months ago

If I forgot about THAT, what else have I forgotten? Have I cheated? Am I an axe murderer? The joys of false memory OCD 🫠 by @gagagreene

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a year ago

What if? What if? It’s not what you think…
🎥 @alisoncosker by @gagagreene

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a year ago

First two episodes out tomorrow! The whole purpose of this podcast is to encourage open conversations around something that is too often kept in the dark. After tomorrow episodes will come out every Monday. by @gagagreene

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a year ago

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a year ago

Wait. What? OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK!!?!

My hero hero hero hero @penny_moodie and i have started a podcast @itsnotwhatyouthink_pod which will “drop” (is that the word) in June.

Penny saved my life when she spoke openly about her experience with OCD years ago and it’s an honour that she asked me to be her co - host 💕😭

Working with her, @alisoncosker and @paddyquay to bring this to life has honestly been so cathartic, scary and beautiful and my only hope is that someone else feels seen, validated, less alone and finds a sense of community.

#OCD Is so misunderstood. It’s so debilitating to the point that you ever wonder how anyone could speak about it. We want and hope to create a space where people with OCD feel held. We know the pain all too well.

Whether you are someone with OCD, a loved one of someone who experienced it or you’re just a little bit interested - this Pod may be for you xx

#obsessivecompulsivedisorder #OCD #ROCD #pureo #mentalhealth #podcast #obsessions #compulsions #intruisivethoughts #hell by @gagagreene

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Best book I have ever read @penny_moodie 🍭🐜 Next you’ll be seeing this on Oprah’s book club recommendations 🙋‍♀️🙌🏽❤️

This memoir on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder not only shares Penny’s journey with the cruel mental disorder but includes research, words from specialists, helpful tips, resources and incredible stories from others who experience OCD and it’s sub types.
Thank you @martindefinite @rickrdavies Emma, Beck, Harriet, Elana, Rosie and Eadie 🥹

IF I stumbled on this book when I was little - it would have changed the course of my world. And I will never be able to thank Penny and the @theimperfectspodcast enough for sharing her story on the podcast a few years ago.

I listened to the podcast at the age of 33 and Penny was the ONLY person diagnosed that I heard present the way I did (it’s not just washing and being tidy … like I wear odd socks and my clothes are often on backwards) and it’s the first time in 3 decades that I didn’t feel invisible and that maybe there was hope.

And because of her I got the right help and my life has started to shift. She is my hero. And my hero wrote a book.

OCD or not, this book is a magic read.

And this book will save lives.

#thejoythief #penny #benny #beyonce #ocd #rocd #pureo #harmo #pocd #together #visbility #mentalhealth #health #obsessivecompulsivedisorder #hope #erp #exposuretherapy #books by @gagagreene

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