Dr Clinton Schultz

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But Are You Happy? · What First Nations People Know About Wellbeing That We Don't · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And connection to our ancestors, to be honest.

You know, we, again, some of the things that hold us so well in who we are and in our overall well-being are things that psychology would suggest are unreal or not present.

You know, I'm well documented for telling people that I spend a lot of my time talking to dead people in trees.

If I walked into most psychology practices and said I spend a lot of my spare time talking to dead people and trees, they'd probably want to send me off to a psychiatrist and have me medicated rather than seeing that as a fundamental piece of my well-being.

Yeah, a hundred percent agree.

And you know, some of the best lessons that I've had in my life have just come from things in nature that most people spend their days just walking past or would never bother to spend the time to and allow themselves to learn from.

I think

you know, at times as human beings and particularly within Western societies, we've allowed ego to get in the way of us actually seeing ourselves as part of, we see ourselves as more than, and that's led to this disconnect and our inability to really allow ourselves to learn from the everyday lessons that exist around us in nature.

psyche what actually what does psyche actually mean and i found that so interesting and i really want you to tell our listeners because i thought that was amazing yeah if we really take it back to old latin you know when we're talking about psyche we're actually talking about the spirit we're not actually talking about the mind so the field of psychology in its essence should be about maintaining the spirit rather than fixing mental ill health or or maintaining mental health so

that's, I guess, the reflection that I use in the work we do.

And it's a common sort of understanding or theme amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

You'll more commonly hear us talking about having a broken spirit than you will us talking about feeling mentally unwell.

I think the biggest divide that we actually have, and it's not just in the mental health space, it's in, I guess, the societal difference space, and that's that we live in one of the most individualised nations in the world, being Australia.

We're ranked as the second most individualist nation in the world, and people can look that up on the Hofstede website.

We have been there for several decades.

We were about third, and then we bumped up to second more recently.

And

So we've got a whole bunch of people living in Australia who function through a very individualistic lens of how to be.

And we have a whole bunch of systems that have been created through that lens.

So that has inherently led to a whole bunch of epistemic discrimination existing in our systems that

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