This week Harriet speaks with Carissa Thomas: a Chinese Medicine practitioner and masseuse based in South East Queensland who specialises in women's health.  Carissa shares her journey and some of the central concepts of Chinese Medicine, as well as ways to support women's health across the lifespan. 

This week Harriet speaks with Carissa Thomas: a Chinese Medicine practitioner and masseuse based in South East Queensland who specialises in women's health. &nbsp;Carissa shares her journey and some of the central concepts of Chinese Medicine, as well as ways to support women's health across the lifespan.&nbsp;

Lainie gets raw and intimate and draws out some morsels of gold from people’s journeys of what made them determined and what steps they took, to get back in the driver’s seat of the decisions around their health, alongside their medical and alternative practitioners.

Lainie gets raw and intimate and draws out some morsels of gold from people&rsquo;s journeys of what made them determined and what steps they took, to get back in the driver&rsquo;s seat of the decisions around their health, alongside their medical and alternative practitioners.

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Heidi's bio:

Tell your story in the mental health system and you get medicated.
Tell that same story through the arts and you get celebrated.

I believe that mental health recovery is just one small part of a healing spectrum.
Things get better when we experience;
expression, voice, identity, community, wisdom, equity.

The best meeting place for all of these elements, is the arts.

Heidi Everett

Independent Producer; Artist; Writer; Mental health & arts advocate; Social Impact Innovator.

We unpack her experience growing up in the 1970's with Autism in Wales and how the influence of a family that believed in the negative side of Aliens brought her into the world of experienceing complex mental health trauma alongside how society shuns people who show neurological differences. In and out of psyche wards made Heidi determined to practice life throughthe lens of teh social model of disability that celebrates the mental capacity needed to be neuro spicy through the arts.

She founded Schitzy Inc which houses Creative projects and events centre artists with diverse complex mental health such as schizophrenia, bipolar, depression and other interconnecting realities relating to complex trauma, social barriers and disadvantage.
​Schizy Inc is an optimistic professional arts organisation that produces possibly the best and most fun public event in the entire world for World Schizophrenia Day (May 24).

Great interview.

http://www.heidieverett.com.au/

https://www.schizy.org/

 

Heidi's bio:
Tell your story in the mental health system and you get medicated. Tell that same story through the arts and you get celebrated. I believe that mental health recovery is just one small part of a healing spectrum. Things get better when we experience; expression, voice, identity, community, wisdom, equity. The best meeting place for all of these elements, is the arts.
Heidi Everett
Independent Producer; Artist; Writer; Mental health &amp; arts advocate; Social Impact Innovator.
We unpack her experience growing up in the 1970's with Autism in Wales and how the influence of a family that believed in the negative side of Aliens brought her into the world of experienceing complex mental health trauma alongside how society shuns people who show neurological differences. In and out of psyche wards made Heidi determined to practice life throughthe lens of teh social model of disability that celebrates the mental capacity needed to be neuro spicy through the arts.
She founded Schitzy Inc which houses Creative projects and events centre artists with diverse complex mental health such as schizophrenia, bipolar, depression and other interconnecting realities relating to complex trauma, social barriers and disadvantage. ​Schizy Inc is an optimistic professional arts organisation that produces possibly the best and most fun public event in the entire world for World Schizophrenia Day (May 24).
Great interview.
<a href="http://www.heidieverett.com.au/">http://www.heidieverett.com.au/</a>
<a href="https://www.schizy.org/">https://www.schizy.org/</a>
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In The Driver's Seat - 24 July 2026

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