2.0 - MMA Podcast Season 2 Introduction

Mind Medicine Australia

Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses.

Mind Medicine Australia is a registered charity founded by Tania de Jong AM and Peter Hunt AM. We are supporting clinical research and working towards regulatory-approved and evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies. We operate as a peak body that connects medical practitioners, consumers, academia, government, industry, regulatory bodies, philanthropists, investors and other stakeholders. The charity is supported by a board, ambassadors, advisory panel and lived experience panel.

In furtherance of this mission, The Mind Medicine Australia Podcast ‘Season 2’ aims to connect, listen and share the power of lived experience stories of mental health challenges and altered states that cultivate wellbeing and utilise the collective voices to inform research directions, policy and system change. This podcast will explore modalities including but not limited to altered states from the use of psychedelics, breath work, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, nutrition, sleep and exercise.

Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast host for Season 2 and has been a MMA volunteer, guides the weekly staff meditation, on the MMA Lived Experience Panel and has a life-long relationship with mental (ill) health yet been able to navigate a fulfilling existence through various means.

She is deeply passionate about conversations related to wellbeing. She uses her own lived experience as well as the reality of having two family members who ended their life seeing no treatment pathway forward. One was her older sister who tried countless medicine combinations, therapies and facilities over 30 years.

Deb’s public health and academic professional background combined with executive roles in the private health care sector have enabled her to understand many facets of the service delivery system.

She has been a small business owner of a school’s based yoga company Yogabean which serves wellbeing programs to students and staff alike.

She has since sold her business and is now a sole trader of Dr Deb Roberts Wellbeing which was born out of a deep longing to share lived experience in various capacities through yoga, meditation, speaking and writing to individuals, groups and corporates.

Deb lives in the inner-city bayside suburb of Elwood, Melbourne (Australia) with her supportive and witty husband, teenaged sons and four legged companions Sparky and Indi.

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