
2.1 - Tommy Moore
Robert Lewandowski
Description
<p>Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses.</p><br><p><em>In furtherance of this mission, The Mind Medicine Australia Podcast ‘Season 2’ aims to connect, listen and share the power of lived experience stories of mental health challenges and altered states that cultivate wellbeing and utilise the collective voices to inform research directions, policy and system change. This podcast will explore modalities including but not limited to altered states from the use of psychedelics, breath work, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, nutrition, sleep and exercise.</em></p><br><p><em>--</em></p><br><p>Tommy Moore is a qualified Nutritionist and Exercise Scientist, studying a Master's degree in Neuroscience (MNSc), and teaching at a Bioscience Education Centre. He also leads specialist educational programs that involve medical, health and biotechnologies to school students (ages 11-18), in the context of sport and human performance.</p><br><p>Tommy was the previous host of the Mind Medicine Australia podcast.</p><br><p>Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast host for Season 2 and has been a MMA volunteer, guides the weekly staff meditation, on the MMA <a href="https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au/lived-experience-panel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lived Experience Panel</a> and has a life-long relationship with mental (ill) health yet been able to navigate a fulfilling existence through various means.</p><br><p>She is deeply passionate about conversations related to wellbeing. She uses her own lived experience as well as the reality of having two family members who ended their life seeing no treatment pathway forward. One was her older sister who tried countles