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The Other Stories Podcast

The Other Stories Podcast

Hosted by: Rachel Maunder

The Other Stories Podcast is a collection of honest, open and sometimes candid conversations with people from a whole range of marginalised, under-represented and unheard groups who share their stories about feeling...

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Episodes

Neurodivergence: Living life on the outside looking in.

Karen Kodish was diagnosed Autistic at 47, ADHD at 48, as having Irlen Syndrome at 49 as well as self-identifying as having PDA.  In this episode she shares the sheer relief and grief she felt at hearing the news....
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Childhood Sexual Abuse: when normal isn't normal

When childhood sexual abuse takes place behind closed doors the child has no point of reference so often doesn’t know that what’s happening shouldn’t be happening. All they know is that they want to avoid being left...
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A Bipolar Journey: Navigating Choppy Waters

Because Catherine Stratta was ‘doing alright’ at school and then at medical school, her periods of depression were thought to be nothing more than normal hormonal issues. In this episode she shares her story of how...
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It’s Time to Acknowledge Grief

Having experienced 4 major losses in her early 30’s within less than 3 years, Jeanette Fornwalt learnt a lot about grief the hard way. In this episode she shares her story of floundering her way through grief to a...
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EDS from a Parent's Perspective

On a mission to raise greater awareness and understanding of connective tissue disorders and the impact they have on the person, their family and carers, in this episode business owner Tanya Gaffon shares her story of...
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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: connecting the issues

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a connective tissue disease with 13* different manifestations or types. The most common of these is the hypermobility type, with stretchy and fragile tissues creating havoc throughout...
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Passing through the grey zone of alcohol

In this episode Ann Gilkes shares her story of how her so-called social drinking eventually caused her behaviour to go beyond her own principles, at which point she made the difficult decision to quit. While many...
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Living between the moments: insights into Sickle Cell Disease

If being a black woman working in a predominantly white male industry, feeling she has to continually prove herself wasn’t enough of a daily challenge, Afiyah Chohollo also lives with the unpredictability of Sickle...
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Gurrl, you ain’t crazy: life with schizophrenia

Imagine discovering at the age of 12 that the people you’d always believed to be your parents were actually Foster Parents. Add to that the trauma of being placed in a family so culturely different from what you were...
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Why don’t you just…?

Recognising herself in some of questions during her daughter’s assessment for Dyslexia, Niki McGlynn could finally make more sense of herself and her past. As a neuro-development therapist herself, in this episode of...
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Leverage

Born in Bangladesh, raised in East London, within the Bangladeshi Muslim Community, at the age of 18 Sajna was married and a teen mum. She started work at the aged 21 as one of few people of colour working as a...
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Existing, not living

Pollie Rafferty’s pathway out of her continuing journey with depression and anxiety showed up when she discovered storytelling. Having found something creative that she could lose herself in she started to live, not...
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