This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta is helping you through the best ways to reset, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.Throughout this Locked and Down: The Reset series, Cindy Poluta and her guests have spoken about reset, reset, rese

The Children

Nov 30th, 2022 23m 48s

This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta is helping you through the best ways to reset, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.Could it have been our children who took the biggest mental hit from Covid? Or were they already having to deal wit

Do we Need to Learn to Live with Anxiety?

Nov 24th, 2022 26m 22s

This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta is helping you through the best ways to reset, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.From one day to the next we were taken out of the lull of lockdown and thrust into the real world – forced to go ba

Resetting Changed Relationships

Nov 17th, 2022 23m 34s

This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta is helping you through the best ways to reset, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.Less than 2 years ago, we were all forced to live close together with some people - yet we were further apart from

Adjusting to work life

Nov 9th, 2022 23m 45s

This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta is helping you through the best ways to reset, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.Returning to work after lockdown has not been easy. For many, this process has conjured stresses and anxieties not

Coping with Grief and Handling Loss

Nov 2nd, 2022 16m 26s

This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta is helping you through the best ways to reset, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.Her special guest is clinical psychologist Chris Kemp to unpack the different forms of grief we might be experienci

Identifying Burnout

Oct 24th, 2022 15m 54s

This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta is helping you through the best ways to reset, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.Her special guest is Judy Klipin a Martha Beck certified Master Life Coach specialising in issues around burnout, a

The Best Ways to Cope with Change

Oct 19th, 2022 21m 45s

This Mental Health Month Cindy Poluta kicks off a brand new season talking through the best ways to cope with change, brought to you by Solal. Mind, body, Solal.Season 1 special guest Cassey Chambers from the South African Depression and Anxie

Considering the plight of educators

Jul 23rd, 2020 17m 26s

Educational psychologist Dr Gloria Marsay joins Cindy to talk through some of the challenges faced by educators during lockdown. Dr Marsay makes the case for educators to be acknowledged as frontline health workers.See omnystudio.com/listener f

On handling Grief

Jul 7th, 2020 13m 28s

Psychology Honours Graduate from Wits, Riyasat-Jaan Khana, joins Cindy Poluta to talk about grief in a time of lockdown. Khana is also a telephonic counsellor with The South African Depression and Anxiety Group and shares a unique experience fr

When remote working leaves you feeling worthless and angry

Jun 15th, 2020 12m 32s

Clinical Psychologist Dessy Tzoneva rejoins Cindy Poluta to unpack the range of feelings many of us are feeling right now while working remotely.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anxieties around kids returning to school

Jun 3rd, 2020 14m 11s

Cindy Poluta is joined by Educational Psychologist Viviana Schwendinger to unpack some of the likely emotional responses around children returning to school - and the anxieties that go with it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati

Turning troubled times into valuable lessons learned

Apr 16th, 2020 14m 7s

SADAG's Cassey Chambers joins Cindy Poluta to mark the day which WOULD have been the end of 21 days of lockdown - but which now serves as a reminder that so much is beyond our control. Thanks to lockdown, we're also learning to be ok with that

Tips for working during lockdown (from someone who knows!)

Apr 15th, 2020 14m 25s

Ian Bessarabia – an Experience Coach specializing in emotional intelligence linked to workplaces of the future - has been in a semi lockdown for almost a year. He shares his unique story with Cindy Poluta and also tips on how to make it a time

The power of staying positive

Apr 14th, 2020 16m 5s

Cindy Poluta is joined by Rudi Keil, CEO of BMoved Wellness to talk through wide-ranging wellness strategies over this time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Managing finances

Apr 13th, 2020 10m 50s

Craig Turton of Easy Equities shares practical tips with Cindy Poluta on how to reduce expenditure and improve management of family finances during lockdown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The role of Meditation

Apr 12th, 2020 14m 59s

Colinda Linde rejoins Cindy Poluta to share the benefits of regular mediation in managing exceptional and everyday anxieties and leads Cindy through a basic meditation as an illustrative example.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati

Emotional Eating

Apr 11th, 2020 16m 49s

Cindy chats to mindful eating and life coach Xenia Ayiotis about awareness around binge eating, mindless eating - and not eating at all. Xenia cautions that now is not the time to be dieting and worrying about your weight.See omnystudio.com/lis

Retrenchment

Apr 10th, 2020 20m 14s

A national lockdown is unchartered territory for everyone - including businesses, trying to survive in the face of massive economic uncertainty. Cindy Poluta is joined by behaviour change advisor and coach Zandi Mathe for advice on how to emoti

Supporting the sick or elderly

Apr 9th, 2020 10m 40s

Cindy Poluta is joined by Clinical Psychologist Dessy Tzoneva to talk about looking after a loved ones metal health - how to look out for them, what you should be looking for, how to navigate crucial conversations that can indicate issues.See o

Tips for handling teens (and Matrics!) in lockdown

Apr 8th, 2020 12m 39s

Clinical Psychologist, Liane Lurie chats to Cindy poluta about helping teens manage their mental health during lockdown (as well as tackling disappointment, change in school schedule, not being able to see friends, sports, etc.)See omnystudio.c

Lockdown: What it means to addicts and their nearest and dearest

Apr 6th, 2020 10m 35s

Cindy Poluta gets a rude awakening from psychologist Neil Amoore as he explains the mental health implications of lockdown on addicts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What about the mental wellbeing of our healthcare professionals?

Apr 6th, 2020 15m 35s

Clinical Psychologist and SADAG Board Member, Zamo Mbele joins Cindy Poluta to unpack mental health dynamics the general public are generally not exposed to, but which some people are living each day.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info

On Managing Homeschooling

Apr 5th, 2020 11m 16s

Feel like a novice at homeschooling - and the dyanmics that come with it? Clinical psychologist Candice Cowen, rejoins Cindy Poluta to share techniques to manage varying anxieties during lockdown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat

Handling children during lockdown

Apr 4th, 2020 13m 33s

Clinical psychologist Candice Cowen, who specialises in children and anxiety, advises Cindy Poluta on techniques to manage children during lockdown - but also on how best to frame COVID-19 to them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa