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Wading through wellbeing. Honest chat. Dubious banter.
A podcast hosted by @mr_crompers and @paulbeeson_mindcakepod

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Record Breaking Treks, Tackling Mental Health – both start with a single step.

We were fortunate to chat to the incredible Kit Birks, before she set off on her challenging trek to raise funds and awareness for mental health and suicide prevention.

She knows it won’t be easy. There’ll be days when she’s exhausted, questioning why she’s doing it… and that’s exactly why her journey is such a powerful mirror for mental health.

Because sometimes life feels like an uphill climb. And sometimes all you can do is take one small step forward. 🚶‍♀️

But that step might just change everything.

🎧 Listen to Kit’s inspiring story and find out how you can support her trek: [link in the comments] @calmzone @audhdukcharity

💬 Tell us: what’s YOUR “one small step” today?

#MindCakePodcast #MentalHealthAwareness #TrekForMentalHealth #OneStepAtATime #KeepGoing #SmallStepsBigChanges #FundraisingForMentalHealth #Resilience by @mindcakepodcast

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One day, even the people who changed history will be forgotten.

The Earth will disappear. The Sun will die. Given enough time, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, the Beatles, you, me and the bloke who had a perfectly pleasant Tuesday all arrive at the same place: obscurity.

And that can be strangely liberating.

You don’t have to become extraordinary.
You don’t need to leave a legacy.
You don’t have to turn every interest into an achievement, every hobby into income, or every hour into something productive.

Make something because you enjoy making it.

Learn something you’ll never monetise.

Help someone without changing the world.

Waste an afternoon doing something that makes you happy.

Nobody is keeping the cosmic leaderboard.

You don’t have to maximise the output of your tiny piece of the universe.

You get to experience being it. ✨

#MindCake #Perspective #MeaningOfLife #FourThousandWeeks #Life by @mindcakepodcast

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It’s strange to think that the atoms making up our bodies have been around for billions of years.

Some were born in the early universe. Others were forged inside stars, scattered across space, and eventually became part of this planet… and us.

And somehow, for this brief moment, all that ancient matter has come together into someone who can think, love, laugh, worry, wonder and look up at the night sky.

Maybe we don’t need to leave a mark on the universe.

Maybe getting to be here at all is extraordinary enough. ✨

#MindCake #Stardust #Perspective #Life #MeaningOfLife by @mindcakepodcast

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#worldmentalhealthday❤️ by @mindcakepodcast

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He did a handbrake turn to impress a girl. Then he hid in a hedge from the police. 😂

That's Jon Hannan, who in his own words says "the situation was ridiculous". A 1.1 litre engine, a police chase, airbags, a sprint through a hospital car park and a hedge with his name on it.

He's also the first to say it wasn't funny at the time. It was a symptom of a drink problem, and what happened next is the real story: therapy, grief, ayahuasca, a shaman in South Africa and a very different life.

It's all in the new Mind Cake episode. Link in the comments.

Content note: the full episode covers addiction, self-harm and suicide.

#MindCake #podcast #truestory #policechase #addictionrecovery #mentalhealth #spirituality #comedypodcast #healing #recoveryjourney by @mindcakepodcast

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Nice surprise this week: Mind Cake has been featured in the first @savills wellbeing newsletter.

Thanks to Dawn and the Savills team for the mention. It means a lot when a workplace wellbeing team picks up something that isn't self-help, just slightly more helpful than doing nothing.

If your team's wellbeing newsletter needs something a bit different, you know where we are. Link in the comments.

#mentalhealth #workplacewellbeing #wellbeing #podcast by @mindcakepodcast

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"I think Dad dying was actually the start of my spiritual journey."

Jon Hannan was 26 when his dad died. A couple of years later, a friend sent him to see a medium. A 15-year-old lad who, according to Jon, told him things only he and his dad knew.

I trained with Jon in the 90s and knew none of this. The new Mind Cake ep is about how someone I'd have called the loudest, most confident bloke in the room ended up working with a shaman in South Africa.

Out now. Link in bio.

Content note: the full episode covers grief, self-harm, addiction and suicide. Samaritans are free to call on 116 123.

#MindCake #Grief #MentalHealthPodcast #Spirituality by @mindcakepodcast

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Whoops! Who knew 🤷🏼

Should I stick him down as a “maybe”?

#fish #marillion #podcastguest by @mindcakepodcast

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He was 13. He knocked his two front teeth out, needed his stomach pumped and still told the doctor he'd only had "a little stubby of Heineken." 🍺

That's Jon Hannan. We trained together in the 90s, and he once chained me to a chair. Now he works with a shaman in South Africa and trains as a spiritual mentor. How he got from one to the other is the new Mind Cake, out tomorrow.

Not self-help. Just slightly more helpful than doing nothing.

Newsletter link in bio if you want the episode in your inbox first thing tomorrow.

Content note: the full episode goes to some heavier places too (self-harm, addiction, suicide). Samaritans are free to call on 116 123.

#MindCake #ComedyPodcast #MentalHealthPodcast by @mindcakepodcast

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Some conversations can’t be put off forever.

And apparently some things you write eventually have to be performed by actual people. In front of you. 😬

Gemma & Anne joined me for a special Mind Bite ahead of performing Inevitable at @ScriptsTheThing at @DorchesterArts on Saturday 10th October.

They performed 90 seconds of the play.

I discovered I am VERY uncomfortable listening to actors say words I’ve written while sitting approximately three feet away from me.

So I dealt with it professionally.

I doodled. ✏️

A lot.

Then we talked about Brian, Tom, dark comedy, what’s really going on underneath the play, and what happens when something you’ve written stops belonging entirely to you and starts becoming a performance.

🎧 Inevitable: 90 Seconds with Gemma & Anne
Out now on Mind Cake.

And if you’re near Dorchester, you can see the 15-minute version live on Saturday 10th October at the Corn Exchange.

#MindCake #Inevitable #ScriptsTheThing #DorchesterArts #NewWriting Theatre Podcast by @mindcakepodcast

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The smile is real

#cancer #cancersurvivors #anaplasticthyroidcancer by @mindcakepodcast

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Scientific research in from Dorset:

There’s a lot to be said for a bit of sun, sand between the toes, salt on the face snd the sound of the waves.

Is it the cold shock? The endorphins? The sheer smugness of telling people you did it? Who knows. Science is still out. All I know is I came out of that water feeling about 40% more sorted than I went in.

But @paulbeeson_mindcakepod still won’t try it.

#MindCake #Podcast #ColdWaterTherapy #Dorset by @mindcakepodcast

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