It’s official. My lived experience of Psychosis is live:
“Checkout Brainwaves to hear Suzie talk with psychologist Dr Louise Hansen. Louise shares her lived experience of Psychosis through a holistic lens, what led to this experience and how she was able to recover and go on to be a practicing Psychologist.
Louise has used her lived experience and research to help people and is well known on Twitter for sharing helpful information about mental health as an academic.”
https://www.3cr.org.au/brainwaves/episode-202107211700/dr-louise-hansen-lived-experience-psychosis
You can also listen to Dr. Cathy Kezelman AM, the president of Blue Knot Foundation, and I chatting together with Brainwaves 3CR Community Radio about the value of Trauma Informed Care here:
https://www.3cr.org.au/brainwaves
My lived experience of Psychosis has also been published in Mad In America: Science, Psychiatry and Social Justice (2021):
The Year Of Potentiality
Now you know the power of Trauma Informed Care. Let’s turn this framework into a mindset for personal, social and political change. If you are unable to, you might need help first, to get safe or become ‘unstuck’ from trauma. Reach out for trauma informed care. #YouBelong
It is time for a Trauma Informed World.
With love,
Dr Louise Hansen
Psychologist
PhD in Psychology
Human Rights Activist
#HealingTrauma #Justice4Australia #YouBelong
“You taught me the courage of stars before you left
How light carries on endlessly,
even after death
With shortness of breath
You explained the infinite
And how rare and beautiful it is to even exist
I couldn’t help but ask for you to say it all again
I tried to write it down, but I could never find a pen
I’d give anything to hear you say it one more time
That the universe was made
just to be seen by my eyes
I couldn’t help but ask for you to say it all again
I tried to write it down, but I could never find a pen
I’d give anything to hear you say it one more time
That the universe was made
just to be seen by my eyes
With shortness of breath
I’ll try to explain the infinite
How rare and beautiful it is to even exist
With shortness of breath
I’ll try to explain the infinite
And how rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist.”
#YouBelong
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***Since the creation of this website the Biloela family were released from detention, returned to Biloela and granted permanent protection in Australia. However, hundreds more people still remain stuck in a system that requires urgent reform.***
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You can listen my talk with Dr Cathy Kezelman AM, the President of Blue Knot Foundation on my own healing journey, training and study and how it has informed my work and advocacy for a trauma informed world here:
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