Open Journal

By Mike Douglas

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Category: Mental Health

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Episodes: 330

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Open Journal Podcast (part of the BlogCast) focuses on the many aspects of mental health; including illness, wellness, stigma and support and the lives affected by mental health. Mike and his guests discuss a range of topics including: health, relationships, education, local events and product reviews.

Episode Date
Ep311 Grief, Support Network and go on... with Dan (Part 2)
Apr 15, 2025
Ep311 Grief, Support Network and go on... with Dan (Part 1)
Apr 01, 2025
Ep310 Philosophical Anxiety Journey with Adam
Mar 18, 2025
Ep309 Prioritise Self Care with Bruce
Mar 04, 2025
Ep308 Bluffing Your Way Next? with Alex
Feb 18, 2025
Ep307 Starting 2025 & Time to Talk
Feb 04, 2025
Ep306 End of Year Break
Dec 11, 2024
Ep305 Reinventing Our Wellness with Janey
Nov 27, 2024
Ep304 Flexible Workplaces with Fiona
Nov 13, 2024
Ep303 Mental Health Blog Awards 2024
Oct 30, 2024
Ep302 Seasonal Changes with Alice
Oct 16, 2024
Ep301 Cosplay & Community with Olly
Oct 01, 2024
Ep300 Three Hundred Episodes (318)
Sep 17, 2024
Ep299 Pride Dinner with Dom
Sep 03, 2024
Ep298 Wellbeing Mindset with Bianca
Aug 20, 2024
Ep297 Ballet: From Park to Stage with Alex
Aug 06, 2024
Ep296 Prioritising Us with Margaret
Jul 23, 2024
Ep295 Stigma and Success with Yola
Jul 09, 2024
Ep294 The Unplanned Break
Jun 25, 2024
Ep293 Pet Day & Local Events
Apr 30, 2024
Ep292 Neurodivergent Mental Health with Emily
Apr 16, 2024
Ep291 Grayson Vale with Adam
Apr 02, 2024
Ep290 Breaking Bad Patterns with Simon
Mar 19, 2024
Ep289 My Whole Self with Mike
Mar 05, 2024
Ep288 Springing into Spring with Nafisah
Feb 20, 2024
Ep287 From Blogging to Twitch Live with Anna
Feb 06, 2024
Ep286 New Year Goals and Routines with Anna
Jan 23, 2024
Ep285 Match Fit with Johnnie
Jan 09, 2024
Ep284 A Refelective New Year
Dec 25, 2023
Ep283 Art, Comics and Wellbeing with Nomi
Dec 12, 2023
Ep282 Surf Therapy with Robyn
Nov 28, 2023
Ep281 Mental Health Blog Awards 2023
Nov 14, 2023
Ep280 Counselling to Coaching, with Chantelle
Nov 01, 2023
Ep279 Brave & Publishing with Sam
Oct 17, 2023
Ep278 International Podcast Day
Sep 30, 2023
Ep277 Paternity Leave
Sep 05, 2023
Ep276 Working, Warnings & Winning with Emma
Aug 22, 2023
Ep275 Expectations and Experinces with Albie
Aug 08, 2023
Ep274 Portsmouth Comic Con with Nick & Olly
Jul 25, 2023
Ep273 Representation and Thoughts with Aeron
Jul 11, 2023
Ep272 Wrestling with Aeron
Jun 27, 2023
Ep271 Expanding Horizons with Roger
Jun 13, 2023
Ep270 Mental Health Blog Awards 2023
May 30, 2023
Ep269 Pets, Partners, Projects with Tom
May 16, 2023
Ep268 Lived Experience Shared with Emily
May 02, 2023
Ep267 Digital Craft, Creativity & Community, with Bex
Apr 18, 2023
Ep266 Health and Exercise with Elspeth
Apr 04, 2023
Ep265 Living a life with Elspeth
Mar 21, 2023
Ep264 Music Meditation, Singing and Smiling with Xann
Mar 07, 2023
Ep263 Living Our Own Happiness with Alice
Feb 21, 2023
Ep262 Adore Dance with Joe
Feb 07, 2023
Ep261 Day Crafting with Bruce
Jan 24, 2023
Ep260 Our Online Community?
Jan 10, 2023
Ep259 Thanks for 2022
Dec 27, 2022
Ep258 Inequality of Service & Conversation, with Hazel
Dec 13, 2022
Ep257 The Self & Karate, with Abdul
Nov 29, 2022
Ep256 Psychology of the Psychologist, with Farya
Nov 15, 2022
Ep255 Mike's Fundraising
Nov 02, 2022
Ep254 Music & Motivation with Adam
Oct 18, 2022
Ep253 Self Accepance and Streaming with Dave
Oct 04, 2022
Ep252 International Podcast Day
Sep 30, 2022
Ep251 Competitive to Creative, with Paul
Sep 20, 2022
Ep250 Reframing Resilience, with Brooke
Sep 06, 2022
Ep249 Wellbeing in Leadership, with Ashlie
Aug 23, 2022
Ep248 MHBA Recap
Jul 26, 2022
Ep247 MHBA - This Week!
Jul 12, 2022
Ep246 The Different Sides of Modern Us, with Elle
Jun 28, 2022
Ep245 Music Expression, with Mike
Jun 14, 2022
Ep244 Managing Time, Life & Successes, with Alice
May 31, 2022
Ep243 The Self & Diagnosis, with Beth
May 17, 2022
Ep242 Forbidden Door, with Aeron
May 03, 2022
Ep241 Lived Experience in Projects, with Emily
Apr 19, 2022
Ep240 Tidying & Over 20 Minutes
Apr 05, 2022
Ep239 Retreat To Move Forward, with JoJo
Mar 22, 2022
Ep238 Services & Our Values, with Cara
Mar 08, 2022
Ep237 Anonymous Story Sharing, with Wizzi
Feb 22, 2022
Ep236 Awareness Incoming, with Mike
Feb 08, 2022
Ep235 Physical & Emotional Rehabilitation, with Phil
Jan 25, 2022
Ep234 Telling Derek To Do One, with James
Jan 11, 2022
Ep233 MegaCast Returns, with Wes & Matt
Dec 28, 2021
Ep232 Recovery & Trigger Warnings, with Emma
Dec 14, 2021
Ep231 Suicide Prevention Conversations with Philip
Nov 30, 2021
Ep230 Lockdown & Changes, with Jacob
Nov 16, 2021
Ep229 The Gap Between Knowing & Doing, with Casey
Nov 02, 2021
Ep228 Mental Health Blog Awards 2021
Oct 19, 2021
Ep227 Im Back & Whats Coming Soon
Oct 05, 2021
Ep226 Break Time
Jul 13, 2021
Ep225 HUND, with Max
Jul 06, 2021
Ep224 Clinical Trials & Research, with Kieran & Joe
Jun 29, 2021
Ep223 Podcast to Podcast
Jun 16, 2021
Ep222 A Conversation about Journeys
Jun 08, 2021
Ep221 Our Weddings
Jun 01, 2021
Ep220 Mental Health Gym
May 25, 2021
Ep219 Virtual Physical Therapy
May 18, 2021
Ep218 Mental Health Awareness Week - A prompt
May 11, 2021
Ep217 Too Many Topics To Summarise In A Title
May 04, 2021
E216 After the Storm
Apr 06, 2021
Ep215 Humanising our Bodies
Mar 30, 2021
Ep214 Donating Emotions
Mar 16, 2021
Ep213 WAIT
Mar 09, 2021
Ep212 Blogging, Resilience and Recognition
Mar 02, 2021
Ep211 Anxious to Happy, A Secret Garden of Understanding
Feb 23, 2021
Ep210 Twitter Chats, Campaigning & Therapy
Feb 16, 2021
Ep209 Awareness & Education Days
Feb 09, 2021
Ep208 Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatments
Feb 02, 2021
Ep207 Fatigue & Its Different Forms
Jan 19, 2021
Ep206 Wrapping Up 2020
Dec 22, 2020
Ep205 #KerriCyclesNude
Dec 15, 2020
Ep204 Audio Journaling
Dec 08, 2020
Ep203 Available, But Not Accessible
Dec 01, 2020
Ep202 Online Influence Awards
Nov 24, 2020
Ep201 Mindset, Confidence & Wellbeing
Nov 17, 2020
Ep200 Mental Health Blogging
Nov 10, 2020
Ep199 Redefining Self Identity
Nov 03, 2020
E198 Investing In Yourself
Oct 27, 2020
Ep197 Fresher & Healthy Service
Oct 20, 2020
Ep196 Prioritise Yourself
Oct 13, 2020
Ep195 Is Awareness Preventing Honesty
Oct 06, 2020
Ep194 International Podcast Day
Sep 30, 2020
Ep193 Well That Got Emotional
Sep 22, 2020
Ep192 World Suicide Prevention Day
Sep 08, 2020
Ep191 Crisis, Conversations & Confidence
Sep 01, 2020
Ep190 How Your Mind Works
Aug 25, 2020
Ep188 An Audio MHBA 2020
Aug 18, 2020
Ep189 Hypnotherapy at Home
Aug 11, 2020
Ep187 Leaving Lockdown Anxiety
Jul 21, 2020
Ep186 Life in 37 Therapies
Jul 07, 2020
Ep185 MegaCast Lockdown
Jun 30, 2020
Ep184 View From The Rooftop
Jun 23, 2020
Ep183 Wake Up To Better Sleep
Jun 02, 2020
Ep182 Optimising Independence
May 26, 2020
Ep181 Mental Health Awareness Week
May 19, 2020
Ep180 Lockdown
May 05, 2020
Ep179 The Mindful Baker
Apr 28, 2020
Ep178 The First Dementia Friendly Barber
Apr 14, 2020
Ep176 MegaCast COVID-19
Mar 24, 2020
Ep175 The MHBlogAwards Are Coming!
Mar 23, 2020
Ep174 Toolbox Recovery
Mar 17, 2020
Ep173 Finding Your Own Self Worth
Mar 10, 2020
Ep172 Less Income, More Outcome
Feb 18, 2020
Ep171 Have We Done Enough Talking
Feb 11, 2020
Ep170 Who is Big Man Beard?
Feb 04, 2020
Ep169 Mental Health Themed Days
Jan 28, 2020
Ep167 Christmas & New Year
Jan 14, 2020
Ep168 A Good Nights Sleep
Jan 07, 2020
Ep166 500k In 2019
Dec 31, 2019
Ep165 Wellbeing At Christmas
Dec 17, 2019
Ep164 Hope With Lynn
Dec 10, 2019
Ep163 MegaCast - The Stigma Of Therapy
Dec 03, 2019
Ep162 Vuelio Awards 2019
Nov 26, 2019
Ep161 Open To Talk
Nov 19, 2019
Ep160 Time To Change Quiz
Nov 13, 2019
Ep159 Sharing Your Recovery
Nov 05, 2019
Ep158 Great South Run
Oct 29, 2019
Ep157 Hope Walk & Suicide Prevention
Oct 15, 2019
Ep156 Why I Love The MegaCast
Oct 08, 2019
Ep155 Finally Laura Gets A Turn
Oct 01, 2019
Ep154 Mike Waffles 13 Reasons Why 3
Sep 03, 2019
Ep153 Do Podcasts Have Teaser Trailers
Aug 27, 2019
Ep152 Your Wellbeing Recommendations
Aug 13, 2019
Ep151 Infinity Gauntlet & Snapchat Specs
Aug 06, 2019
Ep150 How Cool Was MH Blog Awards
Jul 29, 2019
Ep149 No Excuses, Live Your Best Life
Jul 23, 2019
Ep148 What Are The 5 Ways Again?
Jul 16, 2019
Ep147 What's In The Envelope
Jul 09, 2019
Ep145 Education Is Essential
Jun 25, 2019
Ep144 MH Blog Awards Preview
Jun 18, 2019
Ep143 Whats Coming Up
Jun 11, 2019
Ep142 Dump The Scales
May 28, 2019
Ep141 A Storied Mind
May 21, 2019
Ep139 Mental Health Awareness Week
May 14, 2019
Ep138 It Affects Me
May 07, 2019
Ep137 MOJO Meets Pigletish
Apr 30, 2019
Ep136 Faces Of Mental Health
Apr 23, 2019
Ep135 Is It Costing You More Than Money
Apr 16, 2019
Ep134 Life Saving Messages
Apr 09, 2019
Ep133 Sharing Your Story Can Lead To More Than You Think
Apr 02, 2019
MegaCast Ep12 - Being Mindfully Mindless
Mar 19, 2019
Ep132 The Privilege Of A Podcast
Mar 12, 2019
Ep131 Happy Hour Podcast vs Mental Health Advocates?
Feb 19, 2019
Ep130 Be You, Not Them
Feb 12, 2019
Ep129 Time To Talk Day 2019
Feb 05, 2019
Ep128 You Wouldnt Say That If I Was Diabetic
Jan 29, 2019
Ep127 Guest Postponements
Jan 22, 2019
Ep126 Launch of Men's Radio Station
Jan 15, 2019
Ep125 Year In Review (2018 And A Bit)
Jan 04, 2019
Ep124 Becoming 'Geek Magnifique'
Dec 31, 2018
MegaCast Ep11 - Progress & Acceptance
Dec 28, 2018
Ep123 Living Beyond the Borderline
Dec 24, 2018
Ep122 Discussion With Zoe
Dec 17, 2018
Ep121 Discussion with Charlotte
Dec 10, 2018
Ep120 Mind & Vuelio Awards
Dec 03, 2018
Ep119 Wellness & A Sustainable Environment With Sian
Nov 27, 2018
Ep118 Talking Men's Mental Health With Noel
Nov 20, 2018
Ep117 My 2019 Plans... So Far
Nov 06, 2018
Ep116 Dr Sheri And Harley Therapy
Oct 29, 2018
Ep115 Mindfulness Attempt
Oct 22, 2018
MegaCast Ep10 - Then & Now
Oct 17, 2018
Ep114 Discussion With Tom
Oct 15, 2018
Ep113 Abbie's Back
Oct 08, 2018
Ep111 Double Pride
Oct 01, 2018
Ep112 Just Perfect Kickstarter
Sep 24, 2018
Ep110 Adam's Campaigning
Sep 17, 2018
Ep109 World Suicide Provention Day
Sep 11, 2018
Ep108 Women's Mental Health with Wish
Sep 04, 2018
Ep107 Fantasy League, Pride & My Messy Brain
Aug 27, 2018
Ep106 Retro Gaming
Aug 21, 2018
MegaCast Ep9 - Faith & Mental Health
Aug 12, 2018
Ep105 Offstage
Jul 31, 2018
Ep104 MHBlogAwards
Jul 29, 2018
Ep103 Juice Box And Talking Sex
Jul 23, 2018
Ep102 Mental Health Books For 7 - 11s
Jul 16, 2018
Ep101 Discussion with Maddi
Jul 09, 2018
Ep100 Thank You
Jul 02, 2018
Ep99 Elite Sport & The FIFA World Cup with Dr Bunmi
Jun 26, 2018
Welcome
Jun 23, 2018
Ep97 Discussion With Amy
Jun 18, 2018
Ep98 Damo's MH World Cup Draw
Jun 14, 2018
Ep96 Discussion With Abbie
Jun 11, 2018
Ep95 Talking Mental Health Campaigns & Podcasts
Jun 04, 2018
MegaCast Ep8 - Religion... An Intro, eventually
May 28, 2018
Ep94 Mental Health Blog Awards - Nominations
May 10, 2018
Ep93 Discussion With Adam
May 07, 2018
Ep92 Discussion with Julie
Apr 30, 2018
Ep91 Male Mental Health & Walking For Awareness
Apr 23, 2018
Ep90 Sex, Consent & Amber's Rules
Apr 16, 2018
Ep89 Relationships Are Hard
Apr 09, 2018
Ep88 Wrestling & Wrestlemania
Apr 02, 2018
Ep87 Young Champions, Self Stigma & Talking
Mar 26, 2018
Ep86 Time To Change Young Champions
Mar 11, 2018
Ep85 Anxiety & Phobias With Christopher
Feb 26, 2018
Ep84 Discussion with Daniel
Feb 19, 2018
Ep83 Discussion with John
Feb 12, 2018
Ep82 Discussion with Rob
Jan 29, 2018
Ep81 Time To Talk Day 2018
Jan 22, 2018
Ep80 Podcast Recommendations
Jan 17, 2018
Ep79 Discussion With Sophie
Dec 26, 2017
Ep78 Mental Health & Body Image (Intro)
Dec 17, 2017
Ep77 Blogging, Burger King & Chloe Adams
Dec 09, 2017
Ep76 Discussion with Jesssica
Nov 27, 2017
Ep75 Discussion With Lydia
Nov 20, 2017
Ep74 Discussion With Bex
Nov 13, 2017
Ep73 Discussion With Jodie
Nov 05, 2017
Megacast Ep7
Nov 03, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep14
Nov 03, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep13
Nov 03, 2017
Ep72 Discussion With Beth
Nov 03, 2017
Ep71 Dyslexia, Mental Health And Education With Lennie
Nov 03, 2017
Ep70 Discussion With Amer
Nov 03, 2017
Ep69 Discussion With Rachel
Nov 03, 2017
Ep68 Miss Anxiety
Nov 03, 2017
MegaCast Ep6 Diversity In Blogging
Nov 03, 2017
Ep67 Discussion With Rhianna
Nov 03, 2017
Ep66 Discussion With Hannah
Nov 03, 2017
Ep65 Discussion With Rebecca
Nov 03, 2017
Ep64 S.A.D Portsmouth Event
Nov 03, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep12
Nov 03, 2017
Megacast Ep5
Nov 03, 2017
Ep63 A Year Of Podcasts
Nov 03, 2017
Ep61 Szen Zone
Nov 03, 2017
Ep62 Hollywood Bowl Re - Brand Event
Nov 03, 2017
Ep60 TalkMH Recovery
Nov 03, 2017
Ep59 TalkMH Medication
Nov 03, 2017
Ep58 UKBA17 & TalkMH
Nov 03, 2017
Ep57 13 Reasons Why
Nov 03, 2017
Megacast Ep4
Nov 03, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep11
Nov 03, 2017
Ep56 TalkMH, Music And MH
Nov 03, 2017
Ep55 Francesca Interviews Me
Nov 03, 2017
Ep54 Discussion With Sam
Nov 03, 2017
Ep53 Beth And Liv Invade Chat With Marc
Nov 03, 2017
Ep52 Discussion With Richard B
Nov 03, 2017
Ep51 Discussion With Laura
Nov 03, 2017
Ep50 Discussion With Marnie
Nov 01, 2017
Ep47 Discussion With Laura
Nov 01, 2017
Ep48 Mikes 2016
Nov 01, 2017
Ep46 Daily Focal With Marc
Nov 01, 2017
Ep45 Discussion With Marc
Nov 01, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep9
Nov 01, 2017
Ep43 Discussion With Nafisah
Nov 01, 2017
Megacast Ep3 - Christmas
Nov 01, 2017
Ep43 Discussion With Tom
Nov 01, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep8
Nov 01, 2017
Ep42 Trigger Warning - Self - Harm & TalkMH
Nov 01, 2017
Ep41 Mental Health & Social Media
Nov 01, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep7 - Manchester
Nov 01, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep6
Nov 01, 2017
Mobile Mike Ep5
Nov 01, 2017
Ep40 Discussion With Hannah
Nov 01, 2017
Ep39 Discussion With The Mental Health Blogger (Not Doris)
Nov 01, 2017
Ep38 TalkMH - OCD
Nov 01, 2017
Ep37 TalkMH - Medication
Nov 01, 2017
Ep34 Casual Chat With Kay
Nov 01, 2017
Ep36 TalkMH - Stigma
Nov 01, 2017
Ep33 Getting Casual With Rich
Nov 01, 2017
Ep32 TalkMH - ED
Nov 01, 2017
Ep35 Mobile Mike Ep2
Nov 01, 2017
Ep30 TalkMH
Nov 01, 2017
Ep31 Mobile Mike
Nov 01, 2017
Ep29 Friends And Family
Nov 01, 2017
Ep26 Discussion With LivNizzzle
Nov 01, 2017
Ep28 Surviving The Rising Journal
Nov 01, 2017
Ep27 Me And Twitter
Nov 01, 2017
Ep24 Films And Wrestling
Nov 01, 2017
Ep23 Discussion With Laura
Nov 01, 2017
Ep25 Working And Events
Nov 01, 2017
Ep20 Discussion With Jess
Nov 01, 2017
Ep21 The Lost Ep With Rich And Kay
Nov 01, 2017
Ep22 Catch Up With Mike
Nov 01, 2017
Ep19 Discussion With Michelle
Nov 01, 2017
Ep18 Kay Returns (Part 2)
Nov 01, 2017
Ep16 Discussion With Danny (Part 2)
Nov 01, 2017
Ep17 Kay Returns (Part 1)
Nov 01, 2017
Ep15 Discussion With Danny (Part 1)
Nov 01, 2017
Ep14 Discussion With Rich
Nov 01, 2017
Ep13 Discussion With Joy
Nov 01, 2017
Ep11 Discussion Time With Kay (Part 2)
Nov 01, 2017
Ep6 Suicide
Nov 01, 2017
Ep12 Pre - Show
Nov 01, 2017
Ep10 Discussion Time With Kay (Part 1)
Nov 01, 2017
Ep9 Pokemon Go
Nov 01, 2017
Ep8 Birthdays
Nov 01, 2017
Ep7 No Car
Nov 01, 2017
Ep5 NXT
Nov 01, 2017
Ep4 Mens Health Week
Nov 01, 2017
Ep3 Medication
Nov 01, 2017
Open Journal E3 Pre - Show
Nov 01, 2017
Ep2 iTalk
Nov 01, 2017
Ep1 Open Journal
Nov 01, 2017
Open Journal Pilot
Nov 01, 2017