Do you really know how much COVID has changed your bank account?
How much thinking have you done about money since the pandemic started? How much you’ve got, how much you’ve lost, how much you’ve saved, how much you...
Health Speak
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This podcast is the fastest (and funniest) way to learn which health professionals you really need in your life. The statistics tell us that most Australians don’t know enough about “Health Speak” to properly look after their health. From Bum Doctors to Speech Pathologists, Dieticians to Exercise Physiologists, in this podcast Penny Terry rejects the health jargon, bans the big words and leaves the Latin alone as she finds out who these people are, how they can help, and what they do… to you. This project was funded by the Healthy Tasmania Community Innovations Grants through the Tasmanian Government.
Are you more 'in tune' with other people right now?
Does it take a crisis (or pandemic) for us to think a bit more deeply about what’s going on for other people? If so, what are the skills that we need ...
Are we coping with social distancing?
For many of us we feel like we’re just getting on with life, despite social distancing. But when we stop and think about how many little things have c...
Need some hacks to sort out your habits (or perhaps just become aware of them)?
Turns out we all have habits, that we're probably not even be aware of, that help us get on with... life! During a time when there is heaps of change ...
Are you waiting for 'it' to hit the fan?
One thing that’s certain, is that dealing with uncertainty is hard. Which really sucks right now as uncertainty seems a constant state during COVID-19...
We're BACK! Season Three coming soon...
In Season Three of Health Speak, we go beyond the hand hygiene to work out what other key skills we need to live WELL during a pandemic (with others a...
Why less people are accessing professional support for addictions during COVID-19
For some social and community services the demand for support has gone up during during COVID-19, however two local services say they've seen a drop i...
The big and little things we can all do to help people living with an intellectual disability during COVID-19
There seems to be a handful of common words we're all using to explain our lives right now. For Monique and many of her friends, that word is 'confusi...
Helping people who are unwell just got hard
When we hear someone is unwell or going through treatment, often our first instinct is to cook them food, or offer to look after the kids, or visit th...
Helping each other deal with our new lives, from our home.
What have you lost since...well, since COVID-19? Some things are really obvious, like job loss or a lost routine, but others are not so obvious, like ...