The Different Minds podcast series

Sarie Taylor is a trained psychotherapist and coach who found herself going from attending university and travelling the world, to being hospitalised with severe anxiety. Sarie now helps others completely transform their relationship with stress and anxiety and fall back in love with life, as she did, in a fraction of the time, all through the understanding of three basic principles first described by Sydney Banks, a welder from Scotland who experienced a spontaneous and profound spiritual enlightenment: Mind, Thought and Consciousness.

Broadcaster John Offord chats to Dean Bragonier, the founder of NoticeAbility — a nonprofit changing the world for students with dyslexia. Bragonier is passionate about dyslexia not only because he wants to end the isolation and pain of kids who are excluded from our education system, but because he sees dyslexia as a gift. He will tell anyone who will listen about the fact that 35% of entrepreneurs are dyslexic. To watch Dean’s Ted talk “The True Gifts of a Dyslexic Mind”, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPyzFFcG7A

Broadcaster John Offord chats to Siena Castellon, an award-winning advocate for neurodiversity, an author, a student and the founder of the ‘Neurodiversity Celebration Week' – to talk about what being neurodivergent means to her. Siena classes herself as a ‘maths and physics nerd’ and claims her dog is the cutest dog in the world. Siena is also neurodiverse: She is autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic and has ADHD. Please see: https://www.neurodiversity-celebration-week.com/

Broadcaster John Offord chats to Aidy Smith, an award-winning TV presenter and journalist on living with Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder characterised by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalisations called tics.

Broadcaster John Offord chats to Michael Neenan, former Associate Director of the Centre for Stress Management and Centre for Coaching, Blackheath. Michael works in private practice as a cognitive behaviour therapist and coach. He is the author (with Windy Dryden) of Life Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural Approach.

Broadcaster John Offord chats to Rachel Star Withers, an entertainer, speaker, video producer, and schizophrenic. She has appeared on TV shows including: MTV’s “Ridiculousness,” “TruTV,” “America’s Got Talent” and is the host of "Insanity with Rachel Star" on Amazon Prime. She grew up seeing monsters, hearing people in the walls, and experienced intense urges to hurt herself. Rachel creates videos documenting her schizophrenia and lets others like her know they are not alone and can still live an amazing life. She has written Lil Broken Star: Understanding Schizophrenia for Kids and a tool for schizophrenics, To See in the Dark: Hallucination and Delusion Journal. See here for more details: www.rachelstarlive.com

Broadcaster John Offord, chats to Rebecca Heyes, managing director of The Inclusive Learning Academy, which provides dyslexia and dyscalculia assessments. Dyscalculia is a specific and persistent difficulty in understanding numbers which can lead to a diverse range of difficulties with mathematics. It will be unexpected in relation to age, level of education and experience and occurs across all ages and abilities. See here for more details about Rebecca: https://theinclusivelearningacademy.co.uk/about/

Imagine a kind of evidenced based therapy to heal from trauma without talking about it? Recent studies have taken place that show brain images have changed before and after EMDR therapy as well as showing clinical improvement and marked reductions in the Post traumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale Score (PDS). In this fascinating episode, Broadcaster, John Offord chats to Psychotherapist, Timothy Meyer to help break down EDMR and how this modality of therapy is used to identify and overcome past traumatic experiences. For more details about Tim, please see: https://www.lukincenter.com/about/#Timothy%20Meyer Produced by www.johnofford.co.uk

Natasha Naomi Rea, who has appeared in Coronation Street and Emmerdale, hopes to tackle mental health stigma with her book Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda. The #speakoutlikeBrenda campaign has seen former Corrie actress Catherine Tyldesley, Emmerdale's Joe Gill, Samantha Giles and Lisa Riley and Game of Thrones star John Bradley turn extracts from Natasha's book into powerful monologues. See www.bipolaruk.org/Blog/me-myself-bipolar-brenda for more details.  Produced by www.johnofford.co.uk

Broadcaster, John Offord chats to 44 year old, Susan Hodgkinson who has a dual diagnosis of ASC (Autism Spectrum Condition) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).  You can find support here: www.autism.org.uk Podcast produced by www.johnofford.co.uk