THROWBACK EPISODE: How do we heal our broken world?
From Two Inconvenient Women by ThoughtBox Education
April 17, 2026 · 1h 7m
About this episode
The episode explores the challenges of mental and emotional wellbeing in a complex world, drawing insights from a major conference on healing and connection.
RE-LISTEN: This episode was recorded in October 2025. A painful truth in our current cultures is how much we are all struggling with our mental and emotional wellbeing. This is especially true in young people who are facing an increasing amount of overwhelm in their lives in this VUCA* world (*volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous). And yet the ways of suffering and the ways of wellbeing are actually two sides of the same coin... Holly and Rachel are just back from Europe's largest trauma, mental health and wellbeing conference hosted at Oxford University, under the title 'Healing our relational world'. Bringing together over 3000 educators, therapists, mental health practitioners and healers with world-renowned trauma and emotional health experts, the conference was an extraordinarily rich and deep insight and exploration of how to heal our connection with ourselves, each other and the wider world. In this episode we dive deeply into some of the 'brokenness' of our world (our inner and outer worlds) bringing in our own decade of research along with learnings from the conference. We look at some of the patterns in human behaviours that connect all of these elements of…
People in this episode
Hosts: Holly, Rachel
Topics covered
- mental health
- emotional wellbeing
- trauma
- attachment theory
- community healing
- disconnection
Keywords
- mental health
- emotional wellbeing
- trauma
- attachment
- community
- healing
- disconnection
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Oxford University
Places: Europe
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