I've Got Questions
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I've Got Questions
The amazing Pio Terei talks to his 'brainy mate' Kathryn Berkett. They talk all things 'neuroscience', with a lot of laughs, and hopefully a bit of useful information thrown in. Please enjoy!!
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25 episodes
I've Got Questions About Our Adolescents Being Reckless and Defiant
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In this session we talk about some of those adolescent brain changes that cause quite major behaviour changes. Understanding might n...
I've Got Questions About Our 'Life Script" - is there a recipe for living life?
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Pio and Kathryn talk about those expectations we had on us growing up, and whether they were healthy, and whether our young people a...
I've Got Questions About Stress and Weight Gain
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We talk in this session about how pervasive weight gain can be for an individual. We also unpack some of the factors that can contri...
I've Got Questions About How Important Communication Is
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In this session we discuss non-verbal communication, why it is important, and how it is developed through the lifetime.
I've Got Questions About Prickly Politics
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In this long-awaited return to our podcasts (sorry for the long break) we discuss how politics might impact our views on equality. W...
#20 : I've Got Questions About the Effect Pornography is Having
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WARNING: This session talks about sex, pornography and a few other topics that might be hard to listen to for some people. However,...
#18 : I've Got Questions About How Technology is Impacting Relationships
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Pio and Kathryn talk about the good and bad of technology, how it is impacting our ability to form strong relational bonds, and of c...
#19 : I've Got Questions About Myself - What About MY Self-Care?
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A dysregulated adult cannot regulate a dysregulated child, or in that fact, anyone. So we need to start with ourselves if we want to...
#17 : I've Got Questions About 'The Darkness'
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NOTE: This session talks about the difficult subject of suicide. Please be kind to yourself and only listen if you are ready, replay...
#16 : I've Got Questions about Adolescent Anger
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Why is it that our adolescents can seem so angry. What creates that emotional space? What can we do about it?
#13 : I've Got Questions about Racism
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The way to change is through understanding. Conversation is so important for understanding. This is a conversation, discussion, disc...
#14 : I've Got Questions about The Impact of Neglect
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We want to talk about what happens when the brain doesn't get the inputs that it needs, this is what 'neglect' means. This is a disc...
#11 : I've Got Questions: What is trauma?
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The word trauma is used a lot. What do we actually mean by that word, and how can we recognise it in ourselves and others?
#12 : I've Got Questions about 'Keeping the Score' in games
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Should we keep the score? Is it okay to tell our tamariki if they have won or lost? It isn't as simple as 'yes' or 'no', so Pio and...
#10 : I've Got Questions about Rising Crime
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In our typically random way, Pio and Kathryn discuss why so many of our rangatahi are involving themselves in violent, disobedient b...
#9 : I've Got Questions about Exam Stress
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What is going on when we sit an exam? What impact does it have on the brain and what are we actually testing? We also discuss discus...
#8 : I've Got Questions about the Importance of Connection
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We korero about the importance of connections, how Covid restrictions can potentially impact and other subjects like jail time, fish...
#7 : I've Got Questions about Supporting our Adolescents Through the Whitewater Years
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Many of our rangitahi are engaging in worrying activities. Often we are asked "how do I stop them doing it?". In this episode we kor...
#1 : I've Got Questions about the Stress Response
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We talk about why we might sometimes 'lose the plot'. Unpacking sandpaper moments and the normality of stress.
#2 : I've Got Questions about Resilience
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What is resilience? How do we build it? Pio has a lot of questions around this subject, and Kathryn tries her hardest to answer them...
#3 : I've Got Questions about Intergenerational Trauma
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A big subject, and an incredibly important one. We do our best to work through some of the neuroscience, because through understandi...