Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. I’m joined by Kit OMalley, author of "Balancing Act: Writing Through a Bipolar Life," Kit is a mental health advocate, public speaker, and former psychotherapist who lives with bipolar disorder. Her personal experience and clinical background inform her advocacy and enable her to help herself and guide others toward mental health recovery. We talk about Kit’s work volunteering with the US National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and how ...
Dec 29, 2022•43 min
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 24 I’m joined by Wild Creative podcast host Emma Kvetna who is a Canadian writer and poet with ancestry in the UK and Czech Republic, currently living in Nova Scotia on the traditional territory of the Mi'kmaq Nation. Her work has appeared in Filling Station, Planisphere Quarterly, Bell Press and FAYD Digital and her work has been shortlisted in UK writing contests. Born and raised in Ontario, Emma graduated from the University...
Dec 11, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 16 we have another brilliant guest.This week I’m joined from sunny California by Emily Schaules, a Transformational Coach who works primarily with women with invisible illness. Emily is a former attorney, professional actor, Lead Coach at Masterpath Coaching, Founder/CEO of The Canary Club, and creator of the 7-Day Virtual Retreat, ‘Shift Yourself’. Emily went from suicidal and on 25 pills a day by the time she was 30, to thriv...
Dec 11, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 25 I’m joined by Artist, illustrator and creative writer Joe Kiney-Whitmore, who is originally from Wigan, England but has lived and worked in Poland, Hong Kong, New Zealand and now lives in Montreal, Canada. He has experience teaching creative workshops for children, young adults and adults with mental health challenges and learning differences. He talks about his journey since getting sober over 2 years ago, and forging his o...
Aug 21, 2022•36 min
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 23 I’m joined by Jess Wiggins from glorious Devon in South West UK . She is a Transformational Coach who supports people with their mindset & confidence, helping them to overcome their fears, limiting beliefs & self doubt so they can stop procrastinating & feeling stuck & can finally start taking action to create the things they want in business and life. We chat about her experience of burnout and stress that c...
Aug 07, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 20 we have another brilliant guest this week calling in from Calgary, Canada. Dr Candice Staniak is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Spiritual Yogi, Speaker, Author, Social Marketer, and a huge advocate for people having the ability to reach their spiritual potential. She understands the trials and tribulations related to the struggle of choosing and gaining freedom from the ego (mind, body, pain body, and collective unconsci...
Jul 17, 2022•29 min
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 18 we have another brilliant guest.This week I’m joined from Richmond Virginia by Dr Amber Tichenor, founder of To Be, Coaching + Consulting® . Amber has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organisational Psychology and is a thought leader on the topic of female rivalry. Amber has 20+ years’ experience as an Organisational consultant and we also discuss her book, “Behind Frenemy Lines: Rising Above Female Rivalry To Be Unstoppable Togeth...
Jun 12, 2022•25 min
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 17 I’m on catchup after catching covid and letting the recordings slip for a few weeks as life got in the way! Hear all about the creative projects I’ve been involved with, as well as the exciting guests I've been busy recording for future episodes, and my reflections on a recent visit to Berlin with the family and all the creative inspiration from the museums as street art we saw there. I also share some insights from the Soci...
May 30, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 13 we continue the music theme with another amazing guest. This week I’m joined by Kirstie Costar, who is also known as Bower music UK and Nomad Soul song tutor. Kirstie is a singer songwriter and music tutor working holistically to create a learning experience that is student centred. Kirstie helps her students to improve musically and creates a safe and fun space for exploration of creativity, confidence and resilience. She i...
Mar 06, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. We have another brilliant guest to share with you. This week I’m joined by Liz Allan, a business improvement training consultant and mentor from Full Circle Continuous Improvement . She works with organisations to move them to a place where they can create more sustainable working habits by learning how to remove bottlenecks and blockers that have been getting in the way of achieving a better way of working, and how to treat everyone in th...
Feb 20, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Thanks for listening to episode 11 of the Creating Resilience podcast. For this episode we have a very special treat! This week I am talking to Heather Jean from the amazing Confidence Through Cabaret. Heather has worked in the global Corporate sphere and had a training and coaching business for over 25 years, but it was only when she found cabaret 6 years ago that she really started to understand what she only hardly knew before about herself, and it taught her many lessons for personal and bus...
Jan 30, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Thanks for listening to episode 10 of the Creating Resilience podcast. This episode is released in the middle of January, just before the day dubbed ‘Blue Monday’, when we are supposed to be feeling at our lowest after Christmas and in the middle of winter (in the Northern Hemisphere at least!). I share different ways of dealing with the difficult days including exploring poetry, and pay tribute to the great Rabbie Burns who is also celebrated later this month. Have you tried writing down your o...
Jan 16, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Thanks for listening to episode 9 of the Creating Resilience podcast. Happy New Year! This week I’m talking about what to do when you don't know what to do. It’s all too easy to get caught up in overwhelm, particularly as a new year begins and the pressure to make (and stick to) resolutions and healthier habits is everywhere. But when you get overwhelmed, you go into the stress response, which causes you to lose your creativity and ability to see all the options open to you. I share some tips on...
Jan 02, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Thanks for listening to episode 8 of the Creating Resilience podcast. In each episode, I'll be sharing easy ways to sneak some creativity into your life, whatever it may throw at you. I hope it will inspire you to make some positive changes in your life and work calmly through whatever challenges you might be dealing with right now. So this is episode eight of the creating resilience podcast. And this week I talk about dance as a creative art form that helps us become more resilient, because any...
Dec 22, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Thanks for listening to episode 4 of the Creating Resilience podcast . In each episode, I'll be sharing easy ways to sneak some creativity into your life, whatever it may throw at you, from my own experiences, and talking to some inspiring guests who will share how they used creativity to overcome their challenges and build their own resilience toolkit. Don't forget to subscribe and share with anyone you know who could benefit from listening. I hope it will inspire all of you who are listening t...
Nov 23, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to episode seven of the Creating Resilience podcast. Last week we heard from Elyssa Smith about how she used painting and creativity to help her through a really traumatic part of her life and how she uses creativity to help manage her time more compassionately. This week, it's back to me again and I wanted to share some experiences I've had that reminded me that creativity is something that makes me more resilient. I share two things that lifted my spirits this week- the first was compl...
Nov 22, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week I am so excited to welcome a very special guest, who runs the ‘ Stress less Lounge ’- a women-only group for busy ladies who are ready to take back their time and reclaim their lives. Elyssa Smith is a time strategist, helping clients overcome overwhelm, by helping them to pare down their schedules, and manage time so they can do what they love and focus on what matters most. She was featured in a recent Forbes article about compassionate time management which led to a Fox news appeara...
Nov 15, 2021•21 min
Thanks for listening to episode 5 of the Creating Resilience podcast . In each episode, I'll be sharing easy ways to sneak some creativity into your life, whatever it may throw at you, from my own experiences, and talking to some inspiring guests who will share how they used creativity to overcome their challenges and build their own resilience toolkit. Don't forget to subscribe and share with anyone you know who could benefit from listening. I hope it will inspire all of you who are listening t...
Nov 07, 2021•12 min
Thanks for listening to episode 3 of the Creating Resilience podcast. Don't forget to subscribe and share with anyone you know who could benefit from listening. In each episode, I'll be sharing easy ways to sneak some creativity into your life, whatever it may throw at you, from my own experiences, and talking to some inspiring guests who will share how they used creativity to overcome their challenges and build their own resilience toolkit. If you heard the show last week with my significant ot...
Oct 18, 2021•16 min
Thanks for listening to episode 2 of the Creating Resilience podcast. In each episode, I'll be sharing easy ways to sneak some creativity into your life, whatever it may throw at you, from my own experiences, and talking to some inspiring guests who will share how they used creativity to overcome their challenges and build their own resilience toolkit. Don't forget to subscribe and share with anyone you know who could benefit from listening. This week I'm talking to John Diment aka John D Revela...
Oct 10, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 2
This is the first episode of my new podcast. I'm Ann Diment, creative change maker and I'm passionate about helping clients create calm in their busy lives by having more creative playtime. In each episode, I'll be sharing easy ways to sneak some creativity into your life, whatever it may throw at you, from my own experiences, and talking to some inspiring guests who will share how they used creativity to overcome their challenges and build their own resilience toolkit. I hope it will inspire al...
Oct 03, 2021•12 min
