Recovery Devon Podcast
What does it mean to be fully human? How can recovery principles support mental health? Recovery Devon and guests open the mic to views on mental health recovery. Established in the mid-2000s, we became a community interest company in 2012. Based in the South West of England, we support recovery as both a personal vision and an underpinning value base to promote radical change in mental health attitudes and provision. Our community of goodwill includes people with lived experience of mental health issues, their supporters, and families, alongside mental health practitioners.
Episodes
27 episodes
Podcast of Hope - Part 2 - Chronic Pain Coaching
Second Part of Recovery Devon’s Podcast with Chronic Pain Café.The first part can be found on Recovery Devon’s Buzzsprout, Spotify and Youtube channels.The first podcast focussed more on the journeys that Julie and Sean were on le...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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30:58
Podcast of Hope - Chronic Pain Coaching
Welcome to July’s Recovery Devon Podcast with Julie and Sean, directors at Chronic Pain Coaching.This will be part one of a two-part podcast. There was so much to cover.During part 1 we get to know Julie and Sean personally. We ex...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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35:37
Podcast of Hope - Talking to Tiffany from the D&C Directory
The premiere episode of our joint venture with Stephen Ball from Wellraver marks the beginning of our new podcast series titled 'Podcast of Hope!' In this first episode Steve is interviewing Tiffany from the D&C Directory. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:02:50
Podcast in the Pod - Part Two
This Podcast was recorded during out Mental Health Awareness event at Exeter Library in May. The theme for this years MHAW was Anxiety, so we recorded some conversations with organisations and those that have a lived experiance of anxiety.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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21:28
Podcast in the Pod - Part One
This Podcast was recorded during out Mental Health Awareness event at Exeter Library in May. The theme for this years MHAW was Anxiety, so we recorded some conversations with organisations and those that have a lived experiance of anxiety. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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32:08
Season 3, Episode 1- Happy 2 Share!
Welcome back to the Recovery Devon Podcast. We are kicking off Season 3 on Time to Talk day, to encourage people to get talking and sharing. To support Time to Talk this year we are relaunching the wonderful Happy 2 Share cards.
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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22:03
Season 2, Episode 11- The Importance Of Community
In this podcast we talk about what we mean when we say community.Two of our Community Development Workers, Sami and Jody, talk to Matt and Kerry from The Community Waffle House about what is a community, why is it so important and how b...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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58:40
Season 2, Episode 10 - Owning Your Narrative with Sam O'Hara Childs
Sam O'Hara Childs is an actor, writer, and photographer who's always chasing the next adventure. Sam contacted us following our Cosplay podcast; he's best known for playing
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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40:46
Season 2, Episode 9 - Let's Get Real About Bereavement
Bereavement. It touches everyone's life at some point - and yet, too often we find ourselves navigating this strange land with few people prepared to talk plainly with us about it. Besides the shock and sadness, it can be laden with expectation...
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1:05:15
Season 2, Episode 8 - Cosplay and Community
When Tom approached us a few months ago, he had a slightly unusual take on recovery in mind. Tom is a "cosplayer" - someone who roleplays in costume as a hobby - and it's a lot more popular than we realised. As word about Tom's idea got o...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:00:58
Season 2, Episode 7- Body Positivity- Embracing The Skin We Live In
Hayley McLean is a Devon mum of 3 children and author of the multi-award-winning blog, Sparkles & Stretchmarks. Hayley blogs about life as a home-schooling mum, gender stereotypes within society, as well as sharing open, honest and realisti...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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33:29
Season 2, Episode 6 - Music and Mental Health Recovery
It's a podcast to lift your spirits this time; we gathered some Devon musicians for a lively chat about finding solace in sound.We've a wide range of experiences in the Zoom room, from not knowing where to start, to making a living out ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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50:30
Season 2, Episode 5 - Lets talk about Perinatal Mental Health.
In this episode we are talking about perinatal mental health, for both mums and dads, and it goes live in support of Maternal Mental Health week. We explore the challenges of parenthood, what it's like to go through postnatal depression a...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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49:32
Season 2, Episode 4 - Courageous Conversations About Self-Harm
Recorded on Self Harm Awareness Day 2021, our courageous conversation reflects on the "prevention at all costs" model. We focus instead on why self-harm arises, how it manifests, and ask how lived experience can inform service delivery....
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51:25
Season 2, Episode 3 - Towards Recovery: Why Movement Matters
How can moving your body make a difference to mental health recovery? Often we treat mental health “from the neck up.” Creatively engaging with how our bodies feel, function, and move can help us better understand ourselves and our...
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49:55
Season 2, Episode 2 - Feel Bright At Home with Harriet Knock
North Devon Instagram sensation Harriet Knock joins us for a wide-ranging conversation to brighten a dark, lockdown night!Harriet set up @making_ahouse_ahome as a way to share how cleaning helped her recovery with anxiety. From a...
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34:59
Season 2- Episode 1 - Peer Supported Open Dialogue with Dr Tom Cant
Season 2 begins! We kick off season 2 with a talk from Dr Tom Cant about Peer Supported Open Dialogue. This episode was recorded from a live audience Zoom event as part of our Phoenix Nights. Dr Tom Cant talks to us about how Peer ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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47:53
Episode 10 - You've Got To Laugh! Does Humour Help Mental Health?
What part does humour play in keeping your mental health on track? Can a lighthearted joke lift you in difficult times, or does dark humour give you some relief? Is "losing your sense of humour" a useful early earning sign? Or could you even be...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:02:47
Episode 9 - It's All About You talk LGBTQ+
We're joined this time by Max Cohen and Rea Pearson to talk about sexual orientation and gender identity. Are there some particular mental health challenges for different LGBTQ+ communities, and how can organisations like It's All About You Wel...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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52:34
Episode 8- Andy's Man Club
In this episode Recovery Devon's Community Development worker, Sami Goulding, is joined by 3 of Andy's Man Club group facilitators. She talks to Craig, Anthony and Chris who all facilitate groups in Devon, more specifically Exeter, Torbay and P...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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46:19
Episode 7 - Men Reclaiming Recovery After Sexual Abuse
This episode’s conversation highlights the under-represented topic of men’s recovery after sexual abuse. We’re joined by Ian, who courageously shares his lived experience of sexual abuse in adulthood, and John Slater, founder of ...
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47:01
Episode 6 - Exploring Psychosis- A conversation
Episode 6- In this episode James, Recovery Devon's Managing Director, and Ashley, a Recovery Devon Board Member and Bridge Collective staff, have an explorative conversation about living with, and experiencing, psychosis. This conversation look...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:42
Episode 5 - Resilient Women
In this episode we talk about the resilience of women and how one Exeter based group offers women the space to focus on their strengths and connection with each other. We talk to Jeanie Lynch, who runs the Resilient Woman's group at CoL...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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50:10
Episode 4 - Mapping Recovery with ADoddle
This time we talk to devon based digital entrepreneur Jaki King, founder of ADoddle Community Mapping. Learn how Jaki’s lived experience sparked, in her words, "a big, hairy, audacious, plan!" ADoddle’s maps connect communities in a nu...
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33:14
Episode 3 - Out of our minds - Mike Smith
In this episode we have Mike Smith, a Recovery Devon board member and our tech wizard, talking about the positives of being 'out of our minds'. Mike talks to us about how being out of our minds can help us engage more with the worl...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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30:47