The Mind Medicine Australia Podcast aims to connect, listen and share the power of lived experience stories of mental health challenges and altered states that cultivate wellbeing and utilise the collective voices to inform research directions, policy and system change. This podcast explores modalities including but not limited to altered states from the use of psychedelics, breath work, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, nutrition, sleep and exercise.
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The Mind Medicine Australia Podcast aims to connect, listen and share the power of lived experience stories of mental health challenges and altered states that cultivate wellbeing and utilise the collective voices to inform research directions, policy and system change. This podcast explores modalities including but not limited to altered states from the use of psychedelics, breath work, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, nutrition, sleep and exercise.
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TW: Suicide
Dr Ruth Gawler
Dr Gawler is a General Practitioner with a specialised interest in Mind-Body Medicine and Psychology. She is the President of the Meditation Association of Australia (MAA), a Medical Practitioner and Meditation Teacher at The Gawler Foundation Managing Director of Insight Health Services
She worked at the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and was Medical Director of the Family Planning Association of Central Australia from 1991-1997 and worked for most of this period as a GP in Alice Springs.
Ruth is a doctor and therapist at The Gawler Foundation - working in residential programs, where she led and presented in the cancer retreats, multiple sclerosis programs, Health Practitioner retreats, conferences and meditation teacher’s trainings.
Ruth currently works with her husband leading meditation retreats and trainings, and integrative medicine cancer programs in Australia and New Zealand.
Your Host
Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast host for Season 2 and has been a MMA volunteer, guides the weekly staff meditation, on the MMA Lived Experience Panel and has a life-long relationship with mental (ill) health yet been able to navigate a fulfilling existence through various means.
She is deeply passionate about conversations related to wellbeing. She uses her own lived experience as well as the reality of having two family members who ended their life seeing no treatment pathway forward. One was her older sister who tried countless medicine combinations, therapies and facilities over 30 years.
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Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses.
In furtherance of this mission, The Mind Medicine Australia Podcast ‘Season 2’ aims to connect, listen and share the power of lived experience stories of mental health challenges and altered states that cultivate wellbeing and utilise the collective voices to inform research directions, policy and system change. This podcast will explore modalities including but not limited to altered states from the use of psychedelics, breath work, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, nutrition, sleep and exercise.
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Thank you for listening to the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast.
You can support Mind Medicine’s work by making a tax deductible donation to us and more specifically you can support the Patient Support Fund. Your donation will support research, access and affordability for psychedelic medicine.
The information provided in this podcast is for general information purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine or other professional health care services including the giving of medical advice.
The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional and medical recommendation, diagnosis or treatment. The use of information in this podcast is at one’s own discretion and is not an endorsement of use given the complexity inherent in this medicine under the current viable widespread illegality of their usage.
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