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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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Shouting loud
A victim of childhood trauma and cultural abuse from a very young age, Saba went on to build her own life and to find her voice outside of her South Asian community. But that’s not been without its own physical and...
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Seeing change happen
Life has changed considerably for Marie Manley since 2012, when her husband of 25 years shared with her his desire to transition to becoming a woman. In this episode Marie shares what those years were like for her,...
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Bipolar - Undiagnosed for 9 years
After 3 rounds of the manic highs and debilitating, and suicidal lows, Mike Segall eventually got referred for psychiatric assessment leading to a diagnosis of Bipolar disorder 1. In this episode he talks about those...
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The sum of our parts
In sharing her experience of feeling ‘miss-fit’ leadership coach Anita Phagura talks about intersectionality and how we are so much more than all the different parts of us. Whatever our gender, race or personality...
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