Clare McKenna

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3,673 appearances 32 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Aug

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Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna · Dealing with acute mental health conditions · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

So why did you want to add these to your extensive medical qualifications?

And what would some of those techniques look like?

It's so challenging.

I try it all the time 'cause I'm a real person that would be picking up clothes, putting them in the wash basket, you know, half getting dressed all while brushing my teeth, instead of just giving myself that two and a half minutes to just be there.

And is there a Venn diagram of where mindfulness based interventions merges with Buddhism and and and what's in that middle piece?

Yeah, and I think what an amazing layer to have to you as a as a consultant to to to know about this or as a voice within uh the mental health system.

That it is multi layered, as you said.

Yes.

Um but for somebody that you're working with, I suppose, who is in a psychiatric ward, who is homeless, who has years of mental health, you're not saying focus on brushing your teeth.

I can really see that.

What's happening in the brain or the mind in the person where there's depression?

Yeah.

And as you said, everything is multi layered.

It can be environmental, um, there can be whole lots of things going on.

I don't want this conversation to end, but it's going to have to.

But I want to end on um you've written many books and many papers, but the science of happiness and happiness or happy is a strange concept, isn't it?

I remember when I was writing my own book.

Um it's would you be well cut through the overwhelm to find a happier you?

I want a healthier you, but I'm not a medical doctor, so that wouldn't be right.

And I fully accept that.

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