Mental Health in the Middle East: The Mentl Awards
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CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Unlocking the vault of generational pain can be the first step toward healing. In this episode, Scott Armstrong, founder of Mentl and the Mentl Awards, shares his deeply personal journey, shaped by his father's struggle with depression and his own experiences with trauma. Scott emphasizes the importance of creating safe emotional spaces for children and the transformative power of therapy. He highlights the progress in addressing mental health stigma in the UAE, advocating for empathy, compassion, and open conversations as key to societal change.Tune in to learn how you can support and connect with Mentl’s initiatives. Stick around for the wrap up where Jer and Bri talk about a recent accident in death valley due to some poorly constructed flip flops. Big ouchie.
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| 0:00.0 | The Powering Politics Podcast is available six times a week, but you might not be. |
| 0:05.9 | If you want to catch up on what happened this week in politics, join me, Laura Dangelow and some of Canada's most tuned-in political strategists to break down the week that was. |
| 0:15.8 | Short on time, the weekly wrap has you covered with a new episode every Saturday. |
| 0:21.5 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | Hey, folks. |
| 0:35.7 | All right, this week on the podcast, we sit down with our friend Scott Armstrong, |
| 0:39.7 | who is an ex-pat living in Dubai. |
| 0:43.6 | And he is the founder of Mental and the founder of the Mental Awards. |
| 0:50.3 | Now, you might recognize the name Mental or or the Mental Awards, because we had a |
| 0:56.5 | guest on recently, your friend Addle, who was the recipient of the Mental Award last year. |
| 1:05.9 | Scott's work is deeply invested in mental health advocacy. |
| 1:12.4 | And also he is a podcast host himself. |
| 1:16.6 | And we had a absolutely lovely conversation with him |
| 1:20.2 | about his experience in navigating mental health |
| 1:23.9 | from navigating mental health within his family growing up to navigating his own mental health from, you know, navigating mental health within his family growing up to, |
| 1:29.8 | to navigating his own mental health as he is now a father. And it's a beautiful conversation. |
| 1:35.5 | We really appreciate Scott for being so vulnerable and so open to chat with us about |
| 1:42.7 | all things mental health and especially coming |
| 1:45.2 | from the UAE. A very, very interesting perspective. So shout out to Scott. Stick around for the |
| 1:53.3 | end of the episode. Brian and I dive into an unfortunate story that came out of the news, considering it's the summertime and it's very hot. |
| 2:04.2 | And, you know, we heard about a story of a man who got a little ouchy on his feet |
| 2:09.2 | because he burned them walking through the desert. |
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