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’re entitled to, how much you’ll need to get through to whenever this thing ends?! In this episode Penny Terry takes a look at how this pandemic has …

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 to be a useful crisis buddy? In this episode Penny Terry takes a look at those little things that people are doing to keep an eye on others. We conti…

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 changed in our lives since we were first told to keep 1.5 meters distance and clean ALL THE THINGS…. there’s a fair old list! First up in this episode…

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 and our routines are all out of whack (cue pandemic), it's pretty easy to break those helpful habits and replace them with helpful ones. In this epis…

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! So how do we live well amongst the uncertainty of a pandemic? In this episode Penny Terry gets teary as she hears about dealing with the loss of co…

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 and in our own minds)! Penny Terry goes out into the community, into businesses and chats with experts to see what people are doing to 'deal' with thi…

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 in referrals or enquires from people with addictions. So what's going on? And how can we help? Stephen Hill from City Mission and Hilary Ivery from Re…

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 'confusing'. Monique is the Members President of Speak Out, which is both a membership organisation for people with intellectual disability and an advocacy s…

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 them in hospital. All those things just became more risky, than helpful. So how can we help people with compromised immune systems, without risking mak…

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 how having those things made us feel. In this episode of Health Speak, Penny Terry talks with Dan who is currently dealing with what he’s lost, and c…