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Clear the air

Clear the air

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Summary
 Hosted by Dr Angela Lim, Clearhead co-founder and medical doctor, Clear the Air is a mental health and wellbeing podcast covering those experiences in your life or questions you have that you feel too vulnerable to share with those around you.

We speak with experts to share the science behind what you’re experiencing and explore the answers to those questions. Together we get real and raw on the existential questions covering mental health and wellbeing that have puzzled humans for millennia.

Follow the podcast to get notified as we drop new episodes monthly.

Clearhead is an innovative employee wellbeing platform with a social mission to ensure personalised mental health and wellbeing support is accessible to everyone. Making it easier for you to build self-awareness and be guided to either digital self-help tools or book therapy on the Clearhead platform when and where you need it.


Have a burning question about mental health that you want us to answer?
Email us at contact@myclearhead.com, or visit our website: www.myclearhead.com
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Episodes
  • 50: Surfer’s Code - Riding life's waves with Shaun Tomson

    50: Surfer’s Code - Riding life's waves with Shaun Tomson
    2 Nov 2026
    We often take for granted our physical health and its powerful connection to energy and mental wellbeing. In this episode, we explore how to develop the right mindset in maintaining resilience, motivation, purpose, and high performance in the context of surfing.Drawing on decades of personal experience, World Surfing Champion Shaun Tomson will share insights on the key life lessons he has learnt being both a high-performing athlete and entrepreneur including how he deals with competitive pressures and grief.Shaun’s biography: Shaun is a former World Surfing Champion who has been described as one of the 10 greatest surfers of all time and one of the most influential surfers of the century. During his professional career he won 19 major pro events and is recognized as one of the world’s most innovative tube riders.He is the author of several best-sellers including the Surfer’s Code and an award-winning documentary film. Shaun is also a leadership expert and lectures widely on the Code Method, a high-impact and transformational self-development program that activates the power of purpose to improve wellbeing and performance. His simple mission is to help individuals activate their own personal Code to live a better and more purposeful life.In this episode, we dive deep into answering the following thorny questions. 00:00 – Introduction 02:10 – How did Shaun become a world championship surfer?05:05 – What did Shaun learn from his father’s shark attack?14:47 - What did Shaun learn about overcoming tragedy after the loss of his teenage son? 16:40 - Why Shaun feels the world is in a sad mind state?20:30 - How Shaun helps people change their negative mind state.29:55 - What factors were key in Shaun’s career success?38:50 - What did Shaun learn about resilience and becoming a high performing individual at work? 46:00 - Why is reading the code out loud such an emotional response?49:20 - How Shaun was able to overcome grief and find faith in overcoming tragedy?53:50 - Shaun’s one wellbeing practice.Learn more about Shaun / shaun-tomson-42a57213 Learn more about Clearhead https://www.myclearhead.com/
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    52 min
  • 49: Beyond the Mirror: Understanding the Connection Between Body Image and Disordered Eating with Dr Zali Yager

    49: Beyond the Mirror: Understanding the Connection Between Body Image and Disordered Eating with Dr Zali Yager
    6 Oct 2026
    From social media to diet and gym culture, messages about our bodies and the pressure to look a certain way are everywhere. Over time, these influences can shape how we see ourselves, how we eat and exercise, and even the messages we pass on to the next generation.

    In today’s webinar, we break down why body dissatisfaction is so common, where it comes from, and its connection with self-esteem, mental health and disordered eating.

    We will explore when seemingly healthy behaviours can become restrictive or obsessive, and the signs that someone may be struggling with an eating disorder. We’ll also look at how parents, schools and sporting communities can help young people develop a healthier relationship with food and their bodies and determine which prevention programs work, and which don’t.

    Dr Zali's Biography:

    Our guest today is Dr Zali Yager. An internationally recognised body image researcher with two decades of expertise in body image, eating disorder prevention and health education. She is an author and Co-Executive Director of The Embrace Collective, which she co-founded alongside 2023 Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt.

    Dr Yager has helped develop and deliver evidence-based body image programs and resources reaching more than one million Australian children. She has taken her mission to prime ministers, professors and presidents, from Parliament House in Australia to the White House in the USA and has advised organisations including the AFL.

    00:00 – Introduction
    02:30 – Why Zali became a body image researcher
    03:30 – Examples of disordered eating behaviours
    04:10 – What body image means
    05:45 – When healthy habits become compulsive or rigid behaviours
    08:15 – What healthy eating actually means
    09:30 – How someone develops a negative body image
    10:55 – How children as young as three learn what the ‘right’ body looks like
    11:55 – When children begin comparing their bodies with others
    12:15 – Body dissatisfaction in boys and men
    13:20 – How men and women experience body image pressures differently
    14:10 – The origins of the body positivity movement
    15:30 – Why weight-focused health promotion has backfired
    16:50 – Body appreciation vs body positivity
    17:20 – Why strength-based health promotion is more effective than fear or shame
    18:40 – The factors that influence our eating habits beyond personal choice
    19:00 – What an eating disorder-safe approach means
    19:50 – Why choosing food and movement based on enjoyment can be more sustainable
    20:35 – The difference between eating disorders and disordered eating
    21:55 – Signs you may need additional support for disordered eating behaviours
    23:50 – What to do when your child tells you they are fat
    25:10 – What children are really asking when they ask if they are fat
    27:20 – Why saying ‘you’re not fat’ may not be the best response – and what to say instead
    29:00 – Supporting your child when you have your own body image struggles
    30:10 – Why returning to work can be a particularly difficult time for new mothers’ body image
    32:40 – The role of workplaces in eating disorder prevention
    35:00 – Practical things employers can do to support positive body image
    37:40 – Can appearance-based compliments in the workplace do more harm than good?
    41:25 – Should we raise concerns about someone’s weight with them?
    43:50 – Why teaching BMI in schools doesn’t prevent eating disorders
    45:25 – Which school-based prevention programs do work?
    46:15 – The genetic component of eating disorders
    48:00 – Counteracting the impact of social media on eating disorder risk
    51:35 – Why educating young people about eating disorders isn’t enough to prevent them
    53:50 – Where to find evidence-based eating disorder prevention resources in Australia
    55:40 – Where to get help if you think you may have an eating disorder
    57:30 – How body dissatisfaction can lead to negative health outcomes
    59:35 – Zali’s personal wellbeing practice

    Learn more about Dr Yager
    https://www.bodyimagemovement.com/changemaker/dr-zali-yager/

    Learn more about Clearhead
    https://www.myclearhead.com/
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 48: First Nations Perspective on Social, Emotional and Mental Wellbeing with Professor Pat Dudgeon

    48: First Nations Perspective on Social, Emotional and Mental Wellbeing with Professor Pat Dudgeon
    8 Sep 2026
    Clearhead acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present.

    Suicide rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are more than three times those of non-Indigenous Australians. In this episode, we will explore First Nations approaches to developing indigenous models of psychology and suicide prevention projects and how they differ from Western models. We learn the importance of empowering communities to develop solutions that reflect their own strengths, knowledge, and lived experience, which includes the impact of colonisation, trauma and racism.

    Pat’s biography:
    Our guest today is Professor Pat Dudgeon AM, a Bardi woman from Western Australia. She is a professor at the School of Indigenous Studies at The University of Western Australia. She is also the Director of the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention, the lead Chief Investigator for the national Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing research project. Finally, she was also part of a group of Indigenous psychologists who developed the widely used Social and Emotional Wellbeing model.
    In this episode, we dive deep into answering the following thorny questions.

    00:00 – Introduction
    02:15 – Why Pat became an Indigenous psychologist
    06:20 – The emergence of Indigenous psychology
    07:25 – The Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project
    10:00 – The Australian Psychological Society’s apology to Indigenous people
    11:55 – The impact of colonisation on Indigenous mental health
    13:35 – Findings from Indigenous suicide prevention research
    15:15 – How Indigenous psychology differs from Western models
    17:35 – The Social and Emotional Wellbeing model and its determinants
    24:00 – How Indigenous-led models are used in clinical practice
    28:45 – What clinicians need to deliver culturally responsive mental health care
    30:15 – Creating inclusive workplaces for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees
    32:55 – The impact of racism on Indigenous suicide rates
    35:30 – The impact of the 2023 Voice referendum on Indigenous people
    37:20 – Programs that strengthen cultural identity and combat racism
    40:55 – Why cultural identity can be a protective factor
    43:40 – What happened to Indigenous populations following colonisation
    45:20 – The power of truth-telling in reconciliation
    47:15 – Co-design and upholding Indigenous self-determination
    50:20 – Indigenous suicide prevention projects that have worked
    52:50 – Learning from projects that have failed
    58:00 – Pat’s personal wellbeing practice

    Learn more about Professor Pat Dudgeon and her work:
    https://boorn.org.au/
    https://timhwb.org.au/
    https://indigenouspsyched.org.au/

    Learn more about Clearhead
    https://www.myclearhead.com/
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    1 hr
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