Survival of the Kindest

Each week former palliative care doctor Julian Abel talks to his guests about what matters most, and how to find hope and compassion wherever they look.

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83: Alex Evans – Larger Us https://t.co/frUZp5R7BZ

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'We can become more
anxious traumatized depressed addicted over time in similar ways we can change for the
better' @drrhanson is our guest on this week's episode #sotk talking about health, the personal, the political, and the self https://t.co/6Spn2Q5JLu

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https://t.co/px868oIp2U Watch this! Dave is direct from our amazing cannon of interviewees (Episode 76 with Sarah and Dave Brave Heart https://t.co/ku3KF9wiFZ)

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This week Julian talks to Dr Kirsten Auret of @PallCareWA about the role of community in palliative care, and how compassionate communities are all around us, all of the time. The world is a better place than we are led to believe. https://t.co/k9KnOiy4v8

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78. Professor Danai Papadatou – Merimna & Childhood Bereavement https://t.co/1pfLZRYNAK

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77: The Value of Death – Prof Allan Kellehear, Dr Libby Sallnow, Dr Richard Smith, and Dr Julian Abel https://t.co/0Lk7ajzkhK

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'It was better to kind of become more like a white man than an Indian'
On this week's episode Dave Brave Heart talks about, amongst other things, the struggles he and his community faced (and continue to face) in understanding how society saw them and wanted them to behave.

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'You are responsible as a community member - for your extended family, for your extended community, and for the amount of support that you need to provide by having humility, by being generous, by being compassionate, by having fortitude'

Sara Brave Heart from this weeks' show

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We are all part of a community. On this week's episode Dave and Sara Brave Heart talk about what that means to them. Moments of loss and hardship can be when a failure of community hits hardest, and when it comes together when it can have the biggest impact.
#CompassionInAction

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"In Lakota tradition the next world, it's the same as this world with the same people and so wanting to build good relationships and be a good relative is really important in a Lakota worldview. There isn't so much a sense of individuality as community."
Dave & Sara on #sotk

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Our guests this week have a fundraiser to help make their home more accessible after Dave was diagnosed with ALS in September of last year. Hear them on this week's episode talking about what the good life means, & please donate and share their gofundme
https://t.co/rrErDXnJQA

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"Dave has foot drop on his right foot & one day he was walking & he decided instead to focus on his left foot that is still strong & he could walk so much better. Let’s focus on strengths, on what is working, whether that's physical, mental, emotional, spiritual"
#sotk this week

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'Dave and I, I think are very conscious that we're each walking our own journey and that we want to support each other and that our kids are walking their own journeys and that we want to support them.' Dave and Sara Brave Heart on this week's podcast.

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'Your responsibilities to others are more important than your own personal wants.' Dave and Sara Brave Heart are on this week's episode. They are a continuing story of love and kindness, and the conversation with Julian is not to be missed #sotk https://t.co/Gk7rRV2K5F

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'I have become more and more interested in community and nature as important ways of integrating not only psychedelic experiences, but just life experiences.' @drrosalindwatts clinical lead for the Depression Study is our guest on this week's episode #antidepressants #Psilocybin

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'There was no striving for anything, the dopamine rush came from being together and realising that the more people there were in this equal space of all just bringing in the energy, the dancing, the appreciation celebration, the better that feeling was.' #sotk @drrosalindwatts

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'The very idea of success and failure is human beings, what a preposterous idea, the idea that we could in any way be failures'. @drrosalindwatts on #sotk this week.

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https://t.co/8FPJFelngA @drrosalindwatts is on #sotk this week talking about 'interconnectedness and mutual appreciation', as well as the groundbreaking research on psychedelics, specifically psilocybin in combatting depression and the role that community has to play in this

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@sotk_pod @drrosalindwatts @drrosalindwatts & @drjulianabel around a table is a dream conversation 🤩

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'The very idea of success and failure is human beings, what a preposterous idea, the idea that we could in any way be failures' @drrosalindwatts on #sotk this week talks about her amazing research on psilocybin combatting depression, about interconnectedness, and about dancing💃