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Lively Minds is a monthly podcast about mental health challenges that go beyond the ebb and flow of the everyday. Led by people with lived experience, the show looks at how developing an understanding of our mental health influences how we address the challenges we face.
Episodes are released on the first Friday of each month.
Find out more at www.anyamedia.net/livelyminds
Episodes are released on the first Friday of each month.
Find out more at www.anyamedia.net/livelyminds
Update frequency:
every 36 days
Average audio length:
29 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
64 episodes
since April 13, 2019
episodic
explicit content
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On the Lively Minds UK mental health podcast, Will and Ellie discuss a teenage episode of Will’s OCD from the mid-1990s, before he knew what OCD was.After an infatuation, Will developed intrusive harm fears about the person being hurt, followed by a dread that aliens were listening to his thoughts …
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It's easy to assume that proximity to greenery or stretches of water (rivers, lakes, the sea) is good for your mental health.... Not so fast... Ellie dismantles some of Will's assumptions in this episode!They discuss Ellie's new PhD at the University of Cumbria, funded through an NIHR-supported Men…
We are pleased to announce that we plan to start new episodes of Lively Minds again from next month!In the meantime, here is a re-run of another of our favourite episodes - this time from August 2023.Kema Sikawe recently appeared in a BBC 3 documentary: Therapy: Tough Talking in which he gives view…
Hello everyone, it’s Will here. We are still in the process of resuming normal service, but we’re aware that today is the first Friday of the month so we’d ordinarily be releasing a new episode.We are really pleased we managed to get out 2 new episodes over the past couple of months; this month we …
In late November 2025, Will was told that what was thought to be a lingering infection was in fact advanced testicular cancer.Within about 36 hours of being rediagnosed he had been admitted to hospital and was starting an intensive 12-week BEP chemotherapy regimen.Will describes shock, dream-like d…
Hosts Will and Ellie interview therapist and crocheter Olivia Dieterich about her book Random Acts of Crochet Kindness and the global movement she founded.After losing a friend, Natalie, to suicide, Olivia used crochet to cope with grief and set a 100-day challenge to crochet a flower each day and …
Hello everyone, it’s Will here.As you know, Ellie and I have had to take a break from the podcast due to some ongoing health issues. We are still hoping to bring you new episodes in late Spring or Summer 2026 but in the meantime, we thought we’d go back through our archives and bring you some of ou…
Hello everyone, it’s Ellie here.Thank you so much to all of you for following our podcast over the last few years. It has meant the world to us, and we’ve loved every part of the podcasting process so far.Unfortunately, due to various health issues, we are going to take a slightly-longer-than-plann…
What is a 'patient-centred approach'? What systemic challenges get in the way of making it a reality?What does the biopsychosocial model tell us about how to choose the best pathways for treatment?Alex Curmi, a consultant psychiatrist and trainee psychotherapist from The Thinking Mind Podcast discu…
In this episode we are joined by Dr. Elspeth Davies, a medical anthropologist from the University of Oxford, and Dr. Helen Salisbury, a GP and BMJ columnist, about their BMJ article: How do we talk about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions without dismissing people’s suffering?Our discussion …
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