Welcome. My name is Lauren and this is my podcast A Mindful Life. In these episodes we chat, we talk about life, wellness, sleep therapy and

your mental health.

Some of the episodes are talks,

chats and others are my meditations on sleep therapy and wellness.

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Lauren Ostowski Fenton. Thank you to all of you who support me on Patreon.

Now, sit down or lie down comfortably and we will begin.

Hey, it it's nice to be here. It's just lovely to have this one-on-one time with you.

I have been working in the last few days as you know we went away for a week

which was wonderful and I've come back to the goal to create content full time but with the understanding I as I build

build this process and work towards this process. I am still working full-time in

mental health. So I have looked after a couple of clients this week and it's an interesting incredibly rewarding

reflective experience. I wanted to talk to you today about mental health and and recovery oriented

practice in Australia and I know all of you come from different countries, in Australia

we encourage a process called recovery-oriented practice and the idea behind recovery oriented practice is that we

support people experiencing mental health challenges by promoting what we call recovery. Now the word

recovery and the definition of the word recovery can be debated, discussed. What's important with recovery in mental health is that we have

a clear, clear unequivocal understanding that recovery doesn't mean cure.

It doesn't mean recovered.

Tick, close the door, done dusted. When someone experiences mental health issues, they may never recover or they may be unlikely to recover.

Or they may recover.

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