Link to Written Blog Post:

https://innerstrengthcheck.com/2024/03/29/episode-21-from-2023-to-2024-a-review-of-just-about-everything-pt-i/

Content Warning - This article contains discussions about sensitive topics including mental health/mental illness, disability and discourse around socioeconomic disadvantage.

Please be mindful in engaging with this as you read this article.

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8 months in the making, and overcoming numerous personal and other barriers, I'm finally ready to release what is my most comprehensive podcast episode yet.

When I mention it as a review of 'everything', it can sound hyperbolic. And to an extent, it is.

This is a VERY important episode for me, as it's one where I firmly believe it is applicable and relatable to all of you. Every single one.

I get pretty animated during this episode, but it's only because I feel deeply compelled to speak truth to power, to vocalise things I feel we're all struggling with from our homes, to our online lives, and to the workplace and in the community, as humans trying to just. get. by.

In this episode, I discuss:

- Some candid and personal observations about what I feel is a massive elephant in the room only really being skirted around and avoided in social discourse, news media and everyday life re: the global readjustment from the shock of post-pandemic 'normality',

- Many of the large-scale and systemic barriers and challenges we collectively face, particularly with respect to Big Tech/social media, late-stage capitalism and the pandemic of burnout, the languishing and widespread strain on service delivery in almost every sector, etc.

- Definitions of burnout as an occupational and more generalised psychological phenomenon, widespread data from the WHO globally and multiple Australia-specific policy/research findings about how seriously impacted our workforce, labour pool, emerging students and workers is/are. As well, how these are more specifically affected by certain sectors, as well as the influence of age demographic, gender, etc.

-Impacts of the cost of living crisis,

- Recommendations given by specific governing and independent bodies about the state of mental health and social services in Australia as of 2023/2024 (and asking how/why these have gone largely unaddressed), etc.

There's a lot to unpack in this episode. A lot of sources, a lot of articles, a lot of statistics.

I've included visual depictions and infographics over at the written post if that helps your frame some of these numbers.

Overall, I believe my message is clear.

Let's stop putting our heads in the sand and playing happy families, now. Let's address core issues in our culture, our nation, global society, and let's do it soon.

Thankfully, the next long-form episode will be targeting specific ways we can and have done just that.

It's tough out there this year, I know. Take care of you, your loved ones and your community.

Peace, love and grindcore. xo