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WHT Podcasts

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Meditation with Valerie

Join mindfulness meditation practitioner, Valerie as she guides you through several different styles of meditation and helps you understand the neuroscience that makes meditation so good for us!

Meditation with Valerie is a program of Women’s Health Tasmania. 

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She's Out There

She's Out There is a podcast created for Tasmanian women about sexual and reproductive health.

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Speaking of Health

A guide for taking on the thorny issues in health care. 

We take a good look at the topics that health workers tell us are hard to navigate. Our first season is all about how we can make health care better for trans and gender diverse patients. 

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Episode 2: Introduction to Meditation

Here are some tips to help you make the most of your time on the cushion, chair or floor. This will help you to start well, and if you start well, you are more likely to continue.  Meditation helps develop your attention, but your intention is also important. 

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Episode 1: Short meditation and discussion

Valerie offers a short meditation with extracts from a discussion about what just happened inside your brain and body. The chatterbox mind is a story making mind with an inbuilt negative bias. Discover some of the physical and psychological benefits in learning how to unhook.

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Episode 7: Getting help when sex is painful – Dr Sue Mallett

In this final episode in the series, Dr Sue talks with Women’s Health Tasmania CEO Jo Flanagan about the things that can cause painful sex – vaginismus, vulvodynia or just not being into it.

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Episode 6: Getting help when sex is painful - Continence and Women's Health Physiotherapist Rachel Andrew

Women’s Health Tasmania CEO Jo Flanagan talks with Women’s Health Physiotherapist Rachel Andrew about the very hopeful news on treatment for women who experience painful sex.

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Episode 5: Termination of pregnancy in Tasmania

The termination of a pregnancy is a huge, difficult and sometimes frightening decision. In this episode, Women's Health Tasmania CEO Jo Flanagan and Launceston GP Dr Sue Mallett explain what is involved for any Tasmanian woman researching this decision.

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Episode 4a: Bivisability, the importance of community and some helpful advice for health professionals

Women's Health Tasmania Health worker Jen talks about bivisibilty, the importance of community connection as well as some helpful advice for health professionals wanting to be more inclusive in their practice.

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Episode 4b: Bonus - Advice from Dr Sue about safe sex and cervical screening if you are sexually active

Launceston GP Dr Sue Mallett has a special interest in sexual and reproductive health. In this bonus episode, she gives helpful advice about safe sex and the importance of cervical screening for anyone with a cervix who is sexually active.

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Episode 4: Bisexual women's access to health care in Tasmania

Sociologist Dr Ruby Grant takes us through what the letters stand for in LGBTIQ+ and shares insights from her research with young bisexual women into their experiences of accessing sexual health care in Tasmania.

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Episode 3: LARCs – contraceptives that will help you to sing on the wing

Mirena. Kyleena. Implanon. Girl’s names? NO! These are brand names for Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives. Implanon is a contraceptive implant under the skin in your arm.

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Episode 2a: Taking the power surge perspective on menopause

Women’s Health Tasmania CEO, Jo Flanagan is joined by Anna who is happy to share her experiences of entering into menopause.

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