EPISODE THE FIFTEENTH - ECZEMA - DRESSED

Well huzzahs - huzzahs to you for listening, huzzahs to anyone whose voice or sound effects or music or handiwork of some kind contributed to making this podcast - we are at the final episode of Season One.

And I DO hope to make Season two! What shall we do? What to explore / to highlight / help raise awareness of? Ping us if you know - [email protected]

Thanks again to the Pulse Award funding for enabling this fun and informative pod to happen.

In this episode Charlie is still in her panic bath, trying to hide from Gabby and Rachel - but Gabby has other ideas and appears at her window - things do however go....slightly awry.

In the main interview section I talk all things mental health with the condition, and things I have tried to help me over the years. Julie Wheeler tells us how and when to recognise that maybe we need to seek medical professional help, and kindly signposts further places to gain help and information to help you. 

This has been a superbly enlightening series to create - I know, I know it is ambitious, but I truly hope the format and info within helps someone gain confidence in themselves to be proactive and seek help, for listeners to reach out to pals or family, and for people to realise they are not alone in their suffering, they do not have to be, and there is help out there - even now, in this crazy.

SO. THANK YOU for your support - please do share this pod far and wide to help it get to the people I made it for, and, if that is you, hugs from here to there for whatever you are going through. You will get through this. You will rebuild yourself.

So Thank you for listening, and sharing.

And....to my cast especially -  Heartfelt thanks - to the regulars Diane Alexander, Lucy Shirley, Lara Parker, Kirstin Stansfield - I bloody love you - but you know that. And to my cameo players - Fiona Thraille and Paul Golding - couldn't have done this without you! Thank youp.

To all the extra work Fiona Thraille has put in - it deserves at least a medal - thank you - and please do check out her amazing fiction awesome on the Dashing Onions Website here.



Hope your day is a good one....and if you are having a crazy flare up right now, by reading this sentence, I am sending you glorious vibes of abundant good health and pure happiness and gentle healing. 
Drink water. Go moisturise and....look after yourself yeah?

If you want to support my quirky work, please do by becoming a Ko-Fi supporter here, or, jailing my wonderous band of amazing PATREONS who I adore via the link below.

Thank you-very much...

Wherever you are in the world, I hope your today

Is a goodun



Hope you have enjoyed this Season - would love any feedback or reviews - seriously - would make my day....

Hugs n stuff AND I will tryyyy to find funding for a season 2 - if you can help, do! Thank youp. 

Sarahx 

SOUND EFFECTS FOR THE LAST THREE EPISODES WERE ALL FROM www.freesound.org - do have a browse if you need sound effects - there are so many! Thanks to all who have contributed to that site to help Quirky Voices season happen without having to go into the red for finding SFX!





EPISODE THE FOURTEENTH - ECZEMA - PANICBATH

HelLo you fabulous fiction loving folks of audio loving joy

Hope you are having a groovy fun filled day in whatever way gets you through this current crazy.... 

On release day here in the Uk it is a beautiful sunny day, and the world turns with us still on it, I often think of myself sitting here typing something or editing something and then zshumm up to see me as a birds eye view, typing, editing, then up further to see my house from the sky, then up further to see the country from space, then up further to see the planet revolving, and then zshumm back down in mini speed bursts to each distance increment back to me typing here through my eyes. . And that's some mindfulness right there. You've just done it too.  Groovy...

So today's ep still focuses on elements of my life  journey with eczema. What treatments I have had, things I have felt and thought and felt through the eyes of Charlie in the audio fiction segment, as well as in my own words. 

The wonderful Julia Wheeler joins us once again to give top tips on how to help yourself if you have this condition. I do hope this is useful -do contact us via [email protected] if you want to feedback anything that has been helpful, or resonated with you in any of the episodes, or if you just want to say halloooo...doooo!

Thanks to Matt Hutt and Zak Lemon for the grooviest of music.

As usual, all links mentioned are on the Quirky Voices website (click here) for alllll the conditions explored in this season.

Thanks so much to my wondrous cast - today you only really heard from the fantabulous Lucy Shirley as Rachel and Lara Parker as Gabby, and Fiona Thraille as Jill, who also executive produces this podcast. You can also find her own audio fiction awesome on the Dashing Onions Website here.

Still gotta thank Diane Alexander,and Kirstin Stansfield for their general awesome and support. I am sure you will agree all the contributors are amazing for sharing their stories, and their courageousness in doing so has only been to help folks like you! As folks have continually told me, real life stories resonate the most...and use of verbatim moments and playing with dramatic fiction to highlight the reality of these conditions has seemingly been very effective to bring home elements of the true reality of living with these conditions. 

Thanks to my parents and fam for supporting me through my life’s crazy, and to my man and my kids who just lift me, make me laugh, make me proud, help me through my bad times and make my life so much more.

Hope your day is a good one....and if you are having a crazy flare up right now, by reading this sentence, I am sending you vibes of good health and happiness and healing. 
Drink water. Go moisturise and....look after yourself yeah?

If you want to support my quirky work, please do by becoming a Ko-Fi supporter here, or, jailing my wonderous band of amazing PATREONS who I adore via the link below.

Thank you-very much...

Wherever you are in the world, I hope your today

Is a goodun

Hugs n stuff

Sarahx 
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EPISODE THE THIRTEENTH - ECZEMA - ITCHYY

Hello YOU WONDEROUS people of my timeline...or of the future....hey!

How’s your world? 

Today we delve into the lows of the life of an exzematic.....what it might well be like behind many a closed door, as folks cope with acute all over body pain and the reality of a true flare of the chronic skin condition known as eczema. 

I AM....ECZEMATIC..
        I AM...ASTHMATIC...
                 I'M HYDRATOLOGICAL, 
                           WHY I'M GREASED NIGHTLYYYYYY

In the audiofiction, Charlie can only function in bed. Oh c'mon, not like that. It’s a school day, a day she isn’t meant to work, and her neighbours have seen the kids to school, and her husband is away. Sods law of course. She talks from her bed about what it is like...those crippling days. She reflects on how eczema has shaped her, and her thoughts about herself....her relationships. And yes, aspects of this are autobiographical. And yes, I did want to share my angst about finding someone amazing and fun to show you can be loved, and to show that, no matter how low you go, there is hope to find that groovy someone, cos....if I can....you certainly can. And he - Paul - makes my everyday even more amazing. So.....the sage advice here is....just be you, and....go out and enjoy yourself. Life has its crazy surprises - go gettemmm....

The interview section is...er....slightly different for reasons that obvs I usually interview the guest. Hope what I’ve done works ok and isn’t too....ridiculous....and our wonderous expert is a Dermatology nurse, the fabulous Julia Wheeler.

I do want to point out that obviously, she is very much following the NICE guidelines in her recommendations, and that there are....a good number of other options of treatment available to us sufferers that we don’t go into as those are not her specialism. I would like to continue to explore the eczematic treatments of things in future podcasts, so, if you are an alternative therapist, or have tried something worth shouting about, do contact me on [email protected].

As usual, all links mentioned are on the Quirky Voices website (click here) for alllll the conditions explored in this season,

Thanks so much to my wondrous cast - today you only really heard from the fantabulous Fiona Thraille as Jill, who also executive produces this podcast. You can also find her own audio fiction awesome on the Dashing Onions Website here.

Still gotta thank Diane Alexander, Lara Parker, Lucy Shirley, and Kirstin Stansfield for their general awesome, and do hope you check out their episodes on PTSD, Anxiety and Depression, Post Natal Depression and Endometriosis......they’re all super heroes x

Thanks to Matt Hutt and Zak Lemon for the grooviest of music.

Thanks to my parents and fam for supporting me through my life’s crazy, and to my man and my kids who just lift me, make me laugh, make me proud, help me through my bad times and make my life so much more.

Hope your day is a good one....and if you are having a crazy flare up right now, by reading this sentence, I am sending you vibes of good health and happiness and healing. 
Drink water. Go moisturise and....look after yourself yeah?

If you want to support my quirky work, please do by becoming a Ko-Fi supporter here, or, jailing my wonderous band of amazing PATREONS who I adore via the link below.

Thank you-very much...

Wherever you are in the world, I hope your today

Is a goodun

Hugs n stuff

Sarahx 
EPISODE THE TWELFTH - PTSD / ANXIETY / DEPRESSION - RAPPED

WELL GOODNESS

How are you doing folks? Seriously? I do hope you are faring well in this time of crazy - and you have a good number of folks to zoom and chat and message and talk to - and if not, have a browse of the quirky links on our website...doooo reach out to other folks, if you want to...or find networks via the links on our Quirky Voices website links here...personally I get lost in a bit of tiktok these days...but that aside, I hope you are finding these eps useful, informative and real. I so appreciate every. single. listen xx

This is the third ep of three telling Diane's story / Flo's story....and looks at why she feels how she does, and finds some ways of helping cope with the worst of times. Diane has been simply amazing to be courageous and brave enough to share her story - and I would love to hear from anyone who has found her sharing useful or resonant with your story too. That goes for any of the ladies stories - they are real people, they talk frankly about their real lives, and this...is why....I  love em...

I must make clear that the traumatic event affecting characters and people in this show was a sexual assault, so please be aware of that before you listen if this will in any way affect you. Thank you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY CAST OF AUDIO JOY
Lucy Shirley as Rachel
Lara Parker as Gabby
Kirstin Stansfield as Freya
I play Charlie
and the amazing Diane Alexander as Flo, and herself in the interview.

The wonderful Kylie Salholm is our medical professional who is a practicing Psychological Therapist, (BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist, IPT Therapist, RMN and works for an NHS Trust in secondary care =More than qualified to help us fathom in this episode how folks can recognise they need to find help...

Please do email us to [email protected] to let us know what you think of this podcast, to contact any of the participants or to share any of your own story!

Thanks to Matt Hutt and Zak Lemon for groovy music

Thanks to James Hudson for Ave Maria played so beautifully

Aaaaand thanks to my executive producer Fiona Thraille who shines up my rough cuts! Please check out all her work on Dashing Onions Audio here. 

Thank all Of you for listening - if you have the time and inclination, we would truly love a review or rating on any podcast platform! Ah gwan! Thanks muchly

Thanks to the PULSE award funding from the WELLCOME TRUST and Britpod awards....v exciting to have had that support.....

The three brilliant fun podcasts - and I have been lucky enough to be in these - that I'd love you to check out and enjoy are:

Escape! - Robert Tinseley's space adventure using REAL AI voices from Amazon
Limbo - Antoni Olivieri is one of MY FAVE audiofiction folks and YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT ALLLL OF THEIR WORKS
The Descendents - Graz is one of the most supportive and brilliant of new audiofiction chums that makes groovy audio stories - was made up to be in this cave based all f cast horror - go listen. Maybe not in a cave.

THANK YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE FOR LISTENING

You matter. Yes you do. Keep on truckin'....


Sarahx 


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EPISODE THE ELEVENTH - PTSD / ANXIETY / DEPRESSION - TRIGGERED

Well Hallo folks!

Do wear a mask in public places :)

So! We are on to episode 11 of this audio grooviness, ANYONE F'COFFEE - funded by the PULSE Award / Wellcome Trust and Britpod awards....this very aural delight is designed and built to be a useful insightful moving listen - encompassing real life story, medical professional advice on where and how to get help, and some verbatim and dramatised audio fiction on 5 different medical issues women - and some other folks - suffer from...daily....this pain often unseen. Hidden. 

We continue this week looking at PTSD / Anxiety / Depression. 

I must make clear that the traumatic event affecting characters and people in this show was a sexual assault, so please be aware of that before you listen if this will in any way affect you. Thank you.

Flo is found in hibernation mode at home, and tells of her gentle trauma at even seeing folks who remind her of the man who sexually assaulted her, and the girls rally round to support her. In Diane's interview she recounts thoughts and feelings about therapy, about being proactive and positive, and Kylie Salholm give us advice on how folks suffering this mental health issue can help themselves.. 

The WHOLE point of me and my audio pals making this is to encourage you to empower yourself to get help, to make the first steps in recognising that you need help if you need it, and to nurture friends and family and a sense of community, whatever your condition - healthy or otherwise. 

We are all on this crazy planet for such a short time....I feel we should be better at communicating and speaking and helping each other - especially now.
I hope you feel the same way too, and reach out to other folks, or to networks on our Quirky Voices website links here.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY CAST OF AUDIO JOY
Lucy Shirley as Rachel
Lara Parker as Gabby
Kirstin Stansfield as Freya
I play Charlie
and the amazing Diane Alexander as Flo, and herself in the interview.

The wonderful Kylie Salholm is our medical professional who is a practicing Psychological Therapist, (BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist, IPT Therapist, RMN and works for an NHS Trust in secondary care =More than qualified to help us fathom in this episode where and how to find help and information. 

Please do email us to [email protected] to let us know what you think of this podcast, to contact any of the participants or to share any of your own story!

Would also love you to share this show on all your social media and feel free to add @quirkyvoices to your friends list!

Thanks to Matt Hutt and Zak Lemon for groovy music

Thanks to James Hudson for Pachelbel's Canon in D played so beautifully

and thanks to my executive producer Fiona who shines up my rough cuts! Please check out all her work on Dashing Onions Audio here. 

Thank all Of you for listening - if you have the time and inclination, we would truly love a review or rating on any podcast platform! Ah gwan! Thanks muchly

Here’s those links to the audio fiction shows I mentioned today

Y2k - Awesome Romantic Drama
Bright Sessions - Supernatural Drama of awesome
Fall of the house of sunshine / Brushtown Stories - Awesome musical and quirky comedy and drama - don't miss it 

 
Sarahx 

EPISODE THE TENTH - PTSD / ANXIETY / DEPRESSION - RIPPLES

Hello all

I do hope this week has been a positive one in your world, and you’re getting some good support and cuddles where you need it...or at least air hugs at a distance...

We start our first focus on the impact of PTSD, Anxiety and Depression. Often experienced in self imposed isolation - before even all this mass imposed...isolation. We all can have low mood...right? Times when things are heavy and pressing or friendships or relationships Or finance or circumstance take a turn, and leaves us morose, feeling low and upset. Not wanting to do, to speak, to move. 

This episode looks at what happens when a traumatic event is the cause, and how the aftermath of that might make folks feel and behave, and feel sometimes overwhelmed, but how talking, how therapy, self care and love and friendship can help you mend and continue to live more...positively.

 I must make clear that the traumatic event was a sexual assault, so please be aware of that before you listen if this will in any way affect you. Thank you.

Diane Alexander is the focus for interview in the next few eps - she plays Flo in the audio fiction and this week we find her struggling on her own, feeling more than low and getting flashbacks to a traumatic event. We hear her in therapy and finding life too much in crowded places.

 In her frank interview, Diane details how the PTSD, anxiety and  depression manifests, and what she has done to help herself live positively. I am sure you’ll agree her sharing this aspect of her life is brave and amazing, with the soul reason to encourage others to seek help and guidance if they have had a similar event...male or female, trans or non-binary  folks....please talk..please seek help because this world needs amazing folks like you in it.

I have put many links to websites and places with phone numbers and hotlines for UK and USA on my website - [email protected]
Please ping me any other sites of use that i can happily add for folks to find. Thank you.

The wonderful Kylie Salholm is our medical professional who is a practicing Psychological Therapist, (BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist, IPT Therapist, RMN and works for an NHS Trust in secondary care =More than qualified to help us fathom in this episode where and how to find help and information. 

Thanks to my wonderful cast :

Kirstin Stansfield as Freya
Lara Parker as Gabby
Lucy Shirley as Rachel 
Fiona Thraille as the Therapist
I play Charlie
And the wonderful Diane Alexander as Flo

Please do email us to [email protected] to let us know what you think of this podcast, to contact any of the participants or to share any of your own story!

Would also love you to share this show on all your social media and feel free to add @quirkyvoices to your friends list!

Thanks to Matt Hutt and Zak Lemon for groovy music

Thanks to James Hudson for Pachelbel’s canon in D played so beautifully

and thanks to my executive producer Fiona who shines up my rough cuts!

Thank all Of you for listening - we would love a review or rating on any podcast platform! Ah gwan! Thanks muchly


Here’s those links to the audio fiction shows I mentioned today

Oz 9 - Quirky fun space comedy
Edict Zero - Awesome Sci Fi drama
Subjective Truth - Mystery Sci Fi Quirky fun dramady
 
Sarahx 

EPISODE THE NINTH - FEISTY

Hellooo and welcome to our final one of our episodes on Epilepsy, funded by the lovely folks at the Wellcome Trust and Pulse awards. 

Hattie Hodgson-Crome - Media Officer at Epilepsy Action joins us to give further resources on where to find help and information....and we talk about what Epilepsy Action does! Do Call their helpline on 0808-800-5050 to speak to a person who can help too - yes = a real live amazing person...! 

In the audiofiction Rachel and Charlie chat about what Charlie remembers of the seizure so Rachel can fathom what happened as she doesn’t remember Anything. and are joined by Gabby and Freya showing their concern...they both comment on Charlie and Rachel’s matching black eyes and Rachel shares how she feels in the aftermath.

Lucy and me kept talking beyond where I’d thanked her for her awesome in the interview session and we covered her own mental health and thoughts about how epilepsy has changed her. 

Good luck to Hattie Hodgson-Crome and team with their new groovy podcast - please do have a listen to their show after you e binged all the AFC eps too! You can catch that here! 

I do hope you’re having a good week. Next week will be a surprise and I am so so excited to share the next season of. 3 eps on.....well....tune in and subscribe so you don’t miss next week’s awesome. it’s a HUGELY impactful few eps.....

All links we could find of a useful nature are on the shownotes which are here on the Quirky Voices website.

Thanks to Professor Matthew Walker for his awesome help on previous eps! And! His book - understanding epilepsy can be found everywhere and here!

If you would like to help Sarah make more for other conditions or look at a different angle of these ones feel free to become a patreon or pop any pennies in the KO-FI! All is HUGELY appreciated. fANKS! Love. My. Patreons!

Please can you help me out and fill in this survey to feedback what you think of the show, so that hopefully if enough people feedback, they consider doing this again! CLICK HERE to Please fill in this survey to be in with he chance to win a £50 amazon voucher and help more podcasts get funding from THE PULSE AWARDS! 

Massive thanks to my cast Diane Alexander as Flo, Lara Parker as Gabby, Kirstin Stansfield as Freya, and of course the wonderful Lucy Shirley as  Rachel and I play Charlie....it’s quite fun playing a more...grounded person than some of my usual audio fiction characters....do jump on and try these brilliant fun fiction shows for more entertainment and audio joy. 

The Amelia Project
SCP Archives 
The Orphans

As ever huge gratitude 2 the amazing Fiona Thraille who has Executive Produced this show. Find her works of Dashing Onions Audio awesome here!

All sound effects that I did not create are from freesound.org & are listed in the Quirky website shownotes!

Contact us doo if you have any groovy thoughts/thoughful grooviness 2 add to the pod! [email protected]

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK YOU LOVELY PEOPLES

Sarahx

EPISODE THE EIGHTH - HAZE

Helloooo and welcome to Episode The Eighth where we find RACHEL in hospital and awake, talking to CHARLIE about what happened. Do you think Rachel should have told her pals about the condition? Do you think Charlie's reaction was fair or selfish?

All these questions! We fathom from Rachel what she remembers of her first seizures in school and otherwise, and how she feels about it all, and also get Charlie's perspective - coming from a place of genuine love and concern for her pal.

Matthew Walker talks eruditely and more about the finer aspects of elements of the condition, and how folks can help themselves, as well as recognise signs and symptoms fo the condition. And we truly appreciate you listening - and hope that this has been a useful episode and has some resonance for you! 

All links we could find of a useful nature are on the shownotes which are here on the Quirky Voices website.

Next week, we speak to the lovely Hattie Hodgson-Crome from Epilepsy Action about their new Epilepsy Podcast, which has just started - catch that here! 

U can call their hotline anytime on 0808-800-5050.

This show - Anyone F'Coffee? was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Pulse award funding, so thank you so much to them for the opportunity to develop this show with this very much needed funding. If you would like to help Sarah make more for other conditions or look at a different angle of these ones feel free to become a patreon or pop any pennies in the KO-FI! All is HUGELY appreciated. fANKS! Love. My. Patreons!

Please can you help me out and fill in this survey to feedback what you think of the show, so that hopefully if enough people feedback, they consider doing this again! CLICK HERE to Please fill in this survey to be in with he chance to win a £50 amazon voucher and help more podcasts get funding from THE PULSE AWARDS! 

Massive thanks to my cast Diane Alexander as Flo, Lara Parker as Gabby, Kirstin Stansfield as Freya, and of course the wonderful Lucy Shirley as  Rachel -& U can tune in next week 2 fathom what happens when the other pals arrive at the hospital to see Rachel...and who is up for drinking the tins of g&t Charlie brought in. 

As ever huge gratitude 2 the amazing Fiona Thraille who has Executive Produced this show. Find her works of Dashing Onions Audio awesome here!

All sound effects that I did not create are from freesound.org & are listed in the Quirky website shownotes!

Contact us doo if you have any groovy thoughts/thoughful grooviness 2 add to the pod! [email protected]

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK YOU LOVELY PEOPLES

Sarahx

ALL SOUND EFFECTS USED IN THIS EPISODE WERE FROM FREESOUND.ORG and can be downloaded here. 



Thanks for listening!

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EPISODE THE SEVENTH - FIT

Hallo, welcome, and Thank you SO MUCH for joining us for the first of three eps on EPIILEPSY focusing on the wonderous Lucy Shirley, who - if you've been listening along, plays the often hilarious Rachel in our Audio Fiction, and has in her real life been dealing with epilepsy since childhood. 

I have to point out at this juncture BLACK LIVES MATTER and TRANS LIVES MATTER to us at Quirky Voices VERY MUCH...I work and play with folks from all of these wonderous communities and, well, I have really been overwhelmed by the sadness and tragedy concerning Civil and Trans rights, my workload and world events and that of things closer to home as well as my own health of late, and so we had an unexpected mini break - to hopefully also leave room for other voices as well as find our own - but we're back and woah have we got some eps for you!...I would LOVE to hear from anyone in the Trans and or Black communities who have or are suffering with these conditions - share your story do!

Thanks also to our medical professional Matthew Walker whose list of job titles is longer than my body(!)  and works in many fields of public facing research and development in epilepsy. I appreciate very very much Matthew and Lucy's input into these next few episodes, and I'm sure you will too!

We mention both EPILEPSY ACTION AND EPILEPSY SOCIETY a lot! Please follow those links to research more for yourself! And all other links are on our show notes found on the Quirky Voices website here In a few weeks time we speak to the lovely Hattie Hodgson-Crome from Epilepsy action about their new Epilepsy Podcast, which has just started - catch that here! You can call their hotline anytime on 0808-800-5050.

We're having a chilled out evening Anyone FCoffee live chat on zoom on  SUNDAY 14TH JUNE - we would LOVE you to join us! Click here to fill in this form to be sent a link a few minutes before 8pm on Sunday and join me and the cast and crew to chat about elements of this podcast or,..whatever you like! 

This show was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Pulse award funding, so thank you so much to them for the opportunity to develop this show with this very much needed funding. Please can you help me out and fill in this survey to feedback what you think of the show, so that hopefully if enough people feedback, they consider doing this again! CLICK HERE to Please fill in this survey to be in with he chance to win a £50 amazon voucher and help more podcasts get funding from THE PULSE AWARDS! 

Feel free to contact [email protected] with any thoughts or comments on the show, or to contact Lara too!  Thanks so so much for listening. 

Massive thanks to my cast Diane Alexander as Flo, Lara Parker as Gabby, Kirstin Stansfield as Freya, and of course the wonderful Lucy Shirley as  Rachel - and you can tune in next week to fathom what has happened to her....and if Charlie has stopped panic eating squashed chocolate brownies....

As ever huge gratitude to the amazing Fiona Thraille who has Executive Produced this show. Find her works of Dashing Onions Audio awesome here!

All sound effects that I did not create are from freesound.org and are listed in the Quirky website shownotes!

As listed - HERE!

https://freesound.org/people/paulmessier/sounds/329774/ - Ambulance in Edinburgh

Sarahx

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EPISODE THE SIXTH - SPARKS

Hallo you wonderful folks! -'s me! Sarah Golding - hallooooo.

I do hope you’re wellllll! 

This is the last of 3 eps on Peri/ Post Natal Depression, focusing on Gabby’s made up and Lara’s real life story, with some medical professional advice from the fabulous Tracy Greenwood.

In our audio fiction today, Gabby talks about her experience of hyper-anxiety, comparing herself to other mums, being cross with her husband peacefully sleeping when she's wide awake...the girls rally round to show Gabby the best support they can - by listening and enabling Gabby talk - and Flo... in a state of highness from her anxiety drugs does something to make Gabby feel....special! This was SO MUCH fun to record! I cannot divulge if bra's were or were not burnt in this episode!

The wonderful Tracy Greenwood of The Blackpool Teaching Hospital’s NHS Trust talks about how folks - not just mums but dad's too - can start to recognise that they may need help - the signs and signals to look out for. I am hugely grateful to Tracy for giving up her time and sharing her fantastic expertise.....

In the last of her interviews, Lara Parker talks top tips coping once babe has arrived, talks of the importance of supportive partners and surviving poonamis. I am sure you'll agree, Lara is amazing...for sharing such a personal part of her life's journey to hopefully help others, and to make a difference.

We'll be holding an online chilled cafe at 8PM BST on June14th -on Zoom- and if you'd like to join us-me, the cast and Fiona Thraille, please fill in this form and we'll ping you a link to the zoom chilled coffee cafe a short while before 8pm on the 14th. If you've had or have any of the conditions we explore in this podcast, or just want to chat - we would LOVE you to join us! https://forms.gle/q2q5GQMAxtzGFnPi6

This show was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Pulse award funding, so thank you so much to them for the opportunity to develop this show with this very much needed funding. Please can you help me out and fill in this survey to feedback what you think of the show, so that hopefully if enough people feedback, they consider doing this again! CLICK HERE to Please fill in this survey to be in with he chance to win a £50 amazon voucher and help more podcasts get funding from THE PULSE AWARDS! 

If you are struggling right now with PND, in whatever form, or feeling lonely, out of sorts or just “not you’ and want to ‘get back to you’ as Gabby puts it, please utilise the links to the  people and resources on the Quirky Voices website here, where you will also find the full shownote links, and  please do talk to your partner and your pals who may well have gone through the thoughts and feelings you are too. Here's one of the links mentioned to give you some guidance in these crazy times...The Maternal Mental Health Alliance.

Feel free to contact [email protected] with any thoughts or comments on the show, or to contact Lara too!  Thanks so so much for listening. 
Massive thanks to my cast Diane Alexander as Flo, Lucy Shirley as Rachel, Kirstin Stansfield as Freya, and of course the wonderful Lara Parker baring all as Gabby.

As ever huge gratitude to the amazing Fiona Thraille who has Executive Produced this show. Find her works of Audio awesome here!

All sound effects for these last three eps that I did not create are from freesound.org and are listed HERE>>> Thanks to the brilliant folks that made them!





Sarahx
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EPISODE THE FIFTH - POST NATAL DEPRESSION - COLLAPSE

Hallo folks!

Sarah Golding here. I do hope you’re wellllll!

This is the second of three eps. on Post Natal Depression, focussing on Gabby’s made up and Lara’s real life story, with some medical professional advice.

In our audio fiction today, Freya turns up, and obviously some sparks fly with Gabby's low mood and Freya’s reaction to Gabby's of-the-moment quite frankly awful words! We fathom why Gabby feels so worried about how to be and what to do because of the painful legacy of her previous pregnancy.....and she admits that it is so much better to be able to share these thoughts and not go it alone..

The wonderful Tracy Greenwood of The Blackpool Teaching Hospital’s NHS Trust talks about how folks can help themselves if the post or peri natal depression has started to take over. Thank you so much to Tracy for these signposting  and advice, and I hope you folks do look into mindfulness....it can be a useful grounding for you and your here and now rather than the whirlwind of your everyday.

Lara Parker talks frankly on the key aspects of the condition that took its toll during and after her pregnancy. I find it fascinating. Touching on the whole how others see you and that whole dark place of continually comparing yourself to others...hyper anxiety is a terrible thing. We talk breastfeeding, the hardships of socialising as a mum when you’re feeling low, and helping babe conquer reflux and Poo problems. I love that her husband engineered a stream of people coming to see Lara and babe to help combat the isolation.....maybe something for partners to think on if they feel their other half is having potential issues with their mental health and or depression. Pass it on!

                             ”As long as you’re happy, and your baby is safe 
                               and you are safe, you will have a happy baby”
                                                                                    Lara Parker 2020

This show was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Pulse award funding, so thank you so much to them for the opportunity to develop this show with this very much needed funding.

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If you are struggling right now with PND, in whatever form, or feeling lonely, out of sorts or just “not you’ and want to ‘get back to you’ as Gabby puts it, please utilise the links to the  people and resources on the Quirky Voices website here, and  please do talk to your partner and your pals who may well have gone through the thoughts and feelings you are too. Here's one of the links mentioned to give you some guidance in these crazy times...The Maternal Mental Health Alliance.

Feel free to contact [email protected] with any thoughts or comments on the show, or to contact Lara too!

Thanks so so much for listening. 

Massive thanks to my cast Diane Alexander as Flo, Lucy Shirley as Rachel, Kirstin Stansfield as Freya, and of course the wonderful Lara Parker baring all as Gabby.

As ever huge gratitude to the amazing Fiona Thraille who has Executive Produced this show. Find her works of Audio awesome here!

Do join us next week to fathom what happened when Flo decided to add her own fun and nutty loony happiness to the day in trying to cheer Gabby up!

If you’d like to support future Quirky work, feel fre to contribute to the Quirky Ko-Fi here, or become a Patreon with the link below.

MAHOOSIVE thanks to my current PATREONS for sticking by me and supporting my work through these crazy times. I do love every one of you very much!

Have a great week, in as much as that’s possible right now

thanks for listening x

Please share these eps far and wide so they can get to the people I made them for! 
Fanks xxx


Sarahx













EPISODE THE FOURTH - GROWTH

Helloooo! Sarah Golding here. Hope you’re doing ok in this....current phase of our quirky lives..... Cos. It is a phase isn’t it? Just as the body is flooded with hormones to make life, support life, to give birth? 
We'll get through this huh?
Like Gabby does. Like Lara has.

Our focus for the next few weeks is peri natal and post natal depression. The wonderful Lara Parker’s Gabby is the focus of our audiofiction, and finds out she is expecting again, and SHE IS NOT HAPPY AT ALL. We hear how her first pregnancy with Daisy nearly broke her, and just why she ‘doesn’t want’ to be pregnant with this baby. We hear the true life experience of Lara’s own post natal depression origins, and the wonderful Tracy Greenwood of the NHS Blackpool Teaching hospita’s NHS Foundation Trust gives a wealth of brilliant links and information, all of which can be found here on my Quirky website -  HERE is a link to the CAST BIOGS, allll references we make in the podcast ep, and to the sound effects I used in my original audio fiction PLUS full credits...on my Quirky Voices Website.

Thanks in many guises to the folks who helped fund this podcast Pulse Award at The British Podcast Awards and The Wellcome Trust. Please help me to give feedback on any impact this podcast has had by filling in this short survey - I would love at least 50 people to feedback if you have enjoyed this science based podcast and hopefully, with enough feedback, they'll happily fund some more! CLICK HERE to Please fill in this survey to be in with he chance to win a £50 amazon voucher and help more podcasts get funding from THE PULSE AWARDS! 

If you are struggling right now with PND, in whatever form, or feeling lonely, out of sorts or just “not you’ and want to ‘get back to you’ as Gabby puts it, please utilise the links to the  people and resources on the website, please do talk to your partner and your pals who may well have gone through the thoughts and feelings you are too.

Feel free to contact [email protected] with any thoughts or comments on the show, or to contact Lara too!

Thanks so so much for listening. 

Massive thanks to my cast Diane Alexander as FLO, Lucy Shirley as Rachel, Kirstin Stansfield as Freya (she didn’t appear in this one but...she’ll be back!) and of course the wonderful Lara Parker baring all as Gabby.

As ever huge gratitude to the amazing Fiona Thraille who has Executive Produced this show. Find her works of Audio awesome here!

Do join us next week to fathom what happened when Freya came to offer support not knowing what the issue was, and Flo surprises everyone!

If you’d like to support future Quirky work, feel fre to contribute to the Quirky Ko-Fi here, or become a Patreon with the link below.

MAHOOSIVE thanks to my current PATREONS for sticking by me and supporting my work through these crazy times. I do love every one of you very much!

Have a great week, in as much as that’s possible right now

thanks for listening x
Sarahx
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EPISODE THE THIRD - FUSED 

Hello and Welcome to Episode Three of Anyone F’Coffee🎉🎉🎉

Thank you HUGELY for listening to our focused eps on endometriosis - with KIRSTIN STANSFIELD sharing her own actual life experience, and also there's some great guidance as to where and how folks can get help from FAYE FARTHING of Endometriosis-UK! Thanks also for your feedback to [email protected] -we’ll read some of that out in future episodes! Please do feel free to write to us about any aspect of the podcast....we love to hear from you!

In this final part of the audio fiction focusing on endometriosis, Freya explores what it was like going into and coming out of the operation, and shares how her pain affects her, and what therapies she has tried to combat the pain. 

In her interview, Kirstin reveals how she felt about and coped with elements of going in for her operation and aftercare, and alternative treatments.

The last part of this 2nd episode answers question 3 with help from Faye Farthing, Campaign Manager of Endometriosis-uk.

           How do people with - or suspecting they have - this condition recognise
           that they might need help? 

Thanks so much to Faye for this useful and brilliant information. Next week, we look at  POST NATAL/PERI NATAL DEPRESSION through interviews with Lara Parker, and through the eyes and speeches of Gabby in the Audio drama, and Id like to welcome TRACY GREENWOOD to the Anyone F'Coffee team who give some unmissable advice on how and where to get help...

MEET UP AND CHAT !
Click here for the link to the google form to join Kirstin, Lucy, Lara, Diane, Fiona and me for a chat about all things Endometriosis and the podcast on Sunday 10 May as stated on the pod in a zoom chillout  session. Please feel free to share with pals who might want to join us too!

In this episode, I created all effects within audacity, and made some home Foley for the sitting on the sofa and tea and coffee sounds that weren’t recorded live in the mix to add to the soundscape of the lounge! Links to sound effects on the Quirky Website.

Music was by Matt Hutt and Zac Lemon - love it! Isn't it groovy...?
Battle cry music is by Airwolf and can be sourced here
Plus the gorgeous end music is by Kirstin's talented Father-In-Law Alec Stansfield - links to all information about 7-11 breathing can be found here in the IN-8 website. You can purchase the tracks too if you want! Thank you to Alec for giving permission for us to use one of the tracks - it plays out at the end of the episode so this is why the ep is so much longer but I am sure it will help to relax you!
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CAST - Diane Alexander, Lara Parker, Lucy Shirley, Sarah Golding, Fiona Thraille as anaesthetist, and HUZZAHS for KIRSTIN STANSFIELD. Thank you Kirstin for sharing so much of your personal experience and thoughts, and to all my cast - BLOOMIN' LOVE YA! 

Written Directed Produced and Edited by Sarah Golding. I even made a nice picnic lunch... 

Executive Producer and all round amazing person of helpful advice & moral support  - Fiona Thraille - thanks so much Fiona for taking on this mammoth beast of beauty!

Links to CAST BIOGS and some of the places and sites we mention in this episode are here on my Quirky Voices Website. 

Please do check them out, and feel free to share any other links or resources or good blogs with us via [email protected].


EPISODE TWO - ‘RAW’ 
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Hello and Welcome to Episode Two of Anyone F’Coffee. In the audio fiction segment, we find what it’s like for Freya to cope with her pain, and Rachel suffers an ‘absence’. A moment of confusion and disorientation that some folks with epilepsy experience - sometimes many times daily, sometimes sporadically, sometimes before a bigger ‘episode’, and often folks have no idea what they are. The pals all try and give ways of helping to deal with period pain and mention their own menstrual health....

In her interview, Kirstin reveals how she felt about and coped eith elements of going in for her operation and aftercare, and how endometriosis affects her day to day.

The last part of this second episode answers question 2 - 

           How can people with this condition or suspect they
           have it, help themselves? 

Campaign Manager of Endometriosis-uk -Faye Farthing gives some fabulous help and pointers so. thanks so much to Faye for this useful and brilliant information. Next week, we look at  Q3 - When do folks need to recognise that they need help?

In this episode, I created all effects within audacity, and made some home Foley for the sitting on the sofa and tea and coffee sounds that weren’t recorded live in the mix to add to the soundscape of the lounge!

Music was by Matt Hutt and Zac Lemon - love it! Isn't it groovy...?
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CAST - Diane Alexander, Lara Parker, Lucy Shirley, Sarah Golding, Fiona Thraille and introducing KIRSTIN STANSFIELD. Thank you Kirstin for sharing so much of your personal experience and thoughts, and to all my cast - BLOOMIN' LOVE YA! 

The Audio fiction segment was recorded in the Mysterious Movies Podcast and film studios in SEER GREEN, BUCKS. Please do contact [email protected] for info and bookings! They are truly lovely - and we could NOT have done the day without the amazing engineering of RAPHAEL DARLEY in the session,  who manoeuvred mics and made it a very cool and easy experience to get it alllll done! Thanks RAPH! 

BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK for the pod was by the AMAZING Kessi Riliniki who is a HERUGE talent - please find her work here and pay her handsomely to help you with your artworks!

Written Directed Produced and Edited by Sarah Golding. I even made some badges... 

Executive Producer and all round amazing person of helpful advice & moral support  - Fiona Thraille

Here are links to some of the places and sites we mention in this episode. Please do check them out, and feel free to share any other links or resources or good blogs with us via [email protected].
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Facebook Groups

NANCY NOOK FACEBOOK GROUP 

ENDometriosis FACEBOOK GROUP 

EndometrioSisters FACEBOOK GROUP 



Books

The Doctor Will See You Now - linked on Amazon - By Max Pemberton

Links from Bloomin Uterus’ Library of useful books

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Websites

Endometriosis.org

​Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - Website help

NHS...Uk


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Personal Experience Articles
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Endometriosis: 'Don't give up on getting help'

Best Endometriosis Blogs of 2020 - Healthline

Blooming Uterus - Blog by the amazing Lisa

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Links to Podcast Artwork - Kessi Riliniki

Kessi Riliniki artwork Link - Instagram 



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​EPISODE ONE - 'FLOORED'.

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Hello! And welcome to ANYONE F'COFFEE - A NEW Women's Health Podcast and a groovy PULSE AWARD funded must-listen-to pod - gently nurtured into this world by help from those amazing folks at The British Podcast Awards and The Wellcome Trust. 

Thanks for that folks!

This week's episode - and they are coming out weekly - focuses on Endometriosis. A condition we explore through the real life experience of real life Kirstin Stansfield....teacher, medieval historian, amdram pal and friend of mine. 

We explore in this episode what it is, how she was treated, how she felt as she went along and why it was so hard to get diagnosed. After the interview with Kirstin is a fun segment of audio fiction (written by me) exploring the relationship of 5 characters with the conditions this podcast explores, all connecting over a cuppa, and finally sharing elements of their personal journeys. This is part verbatim and part theatricalise and I hope it makes you love these people and characters as much as I do! The last part of each episode will be an interview with a person in the now - either a medical professional or someone working closely with folks with the condition. They will be answering three questions - 

1) How and where can folks with this condition or suspecting they have it find help and information?
2) How can they help themselves?
3) When do they need to recognise that they need help?

Today we explore Q1 WITH THE LOVELY Faye Farthing - CAMPAIGN MANAGER at Endometriosis-uk.

Below are links to the references we make in the podcast ep, and to the sound effects I used in my original audio fiction.

Music was by Matt Hutt and Zac Lemon - love it! Isn't it groovy...?
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CAST - Diane Alexander, Lara Parker, Lucy Shirley, Sarah Golding, Fiona Thraille and introducing KIRSTIN STANSFIELD. Thank you Kirstin for sharing so much of your personal experience and thoughts, and to all my cast - BLOOMIN' LOVE YA! 

The Audio fiction segment was recorded in the Mysterious Movies Podcast and film studios in SEER GREEN, BUCKS. Please do contact [email protected] for info and bookings! They are truly lovely - and we could NOT have done the day without the amazing engineering of RAPHAEL DARLEY in the session,  who manoeuvred mics and made it a very cool and easy experience to get it alllll done! Thanks RAPH! 

BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK for the pod was by the AMAZING Kessi Riliniki who is a HERUGE talent - please find her work here and pay her handsomely to help you with your artworks!

Written Directed Produced and Edited by Sarah Golding. I even drove the car. 

Executive Producer - Fiona Thraille

Thank you...sincerely to everyone who has helped me make this seemingly epic season of ANYONE F'COFFEE. There are two more episodes focusing on ENDOMETRIOSIS, and then we look at POST NATAL DEPRESSION, EPILEPSY, ECZEMA, PTSD/ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION. Please do share this with anyone who would need this in their life right now...and please do contact me on [email protected] if you want to about any aspect of this production...ah gwan....be lovely to hear from you - and....PLEASE DO RATE AND REVIEW THIS PODCAST WHEREVER YOU AHVE LISTENED. 

Thanks again to FAYE FARTHING of Endometriosis-uk for her time and expertise - I am certain you will find the information and links from the site highly useful and... she'll be back next week!

And finally thanks to all of my Patreon supporters for keeping me buoyant and motivated throughout this last year. If you feel you would like to support my Quirky Work and help fund new seasons of this pod and more, please ping over to my PATREON account orrrrr my Quirky KO-FI. Much and many happy jumpings up n down in gratefulnesses of your support xx

Here's some useful links as mentioned on the pod...

Endometriosis UK WEBSITE

Endometriosis UK FACEBOOK

Books

Period by Emma Barnett (follow Emma Barnet on Twitter at @Emmabarnett

Endometriosis: The Experts’ Guide to Treat, Manage and Live Well with Your Symptoms by Professor Andrew Horne & Carol Pearson 

Nice Guidelines for Endometriosis

Endo Writer Blog

Pain and Symptoms weekly diary from Endometriosis-uk

Endometriosis Friendly Employer scheme 
Talking to your employer about endometriosis advice 

SOUND EFFECTS USED IN THE AUDIO FICTION FROM FREESOUND.ORG


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