Mandy and Kate chat to play and filial therapist Kate Renshaw, an author, international speaker, university scholar and mental health consultant. 

She has a background in psychology, art therapy, play therapy, higher education teaching and learning, and currently works in her private practice Play and Filial Therapy.   

She’s also a Pea with two children with different medical conditions and has recently ‘delivered’ her third ‘child’ (her PhD!) for assessment after eight years of research. While working as a school counsellor and studying art therapy in the UK, Kate decided to pursue play therapy as she loved working with children and families, and was passionate about the power of play.  

Kate shares her journey through studying, practicing and teaching play therapy, including her experience in academic research. She’s developed evidence-based practices to support both parents and teachers in delivering play therapy at home and school. 

She’s passionate about working with teachers and families, working with groups of children in Group Play Therapy, training student play therapists, contributing to play therapy research, and offering clinical supervision and professional development to registered play therapists. She’s also self-publishing a book for play therapists in 2023.

Thanks for chatting with us Kate!

• Check out the Play and Filial Therapy website 
• Find Kate on Facebook 
• Connect with Kate on LinkedIn

Plus: 

• Kate was listening to Knowable Me podcast about online forms and Shagged Married Annoyed
• Kate was loving watching Vera
• Mandy was loving watching The Last Of Us - the third episode ‘took her breath away’ and loved the episode of Smartless featuring Wayne’s World’s Dana Carvey. 
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Mandy and Kate chat with the hilarious, honest and superbly talented Rosie Jones while she is in Melbourne for the comedy festival. Go buy tickets Melbourne Peas.

Get tickets here https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/rosie-jones

This episode is amazing, buckle in to hear about the award to top all awards, perfect vulvas and much, much more!

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Mandy and Kate are excited to chat with Grant and Chezzi Denyer, TV celebrities and producers, podcast hosts and Pea parents to three little girls. Their youngest daughter, Sunday, was born with hip dysplasia. 

After showing Mandy and Kate his Gold Logie (!), Grant and Chezzi talk all about Sunday’s experience needing surgery, a full-body Spica cast for 12 weeks and a brace to encourage her hip joint to heal and grow into place. But how do you change an explosive nappy while your baby’s in a full-body cast? And what happens if she’s just about to take her first steps, yet she’s completely immobilised?

For Grant, coming from the “pretend land and silliness” of breakfast television and game shows, Sunday’s health challenges forced a change of perspective. Used to faking it til he made it, and having to present a fabulous, flawless, no baggage, got-your-shit-together ‘look’ for TV, Grant honestly shares his experiences of dealing with the reality of life off-camera, including some post-natal depression and anxiety, and adjusting to a new and unfamiliar life as a Dad. Chezzi also talks about her experience of hyperememis while pregnant, all while Grant was off in the jungle (literally, for I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!), and the amazing support she’s found amongst the hip dysplasia community.  

Thank you for sharing your amazing story with us Grant and Chezzi!  

• Listen to Grant and Chezzi’s podcast It’s All True?
• Follow Grant on Instagram
• Follow Chezzi on Instagram 

Plus:

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• Melbourne forecast for Thursday 13 April - Partly cloudy, 21 degrees 
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Mandy and Kate chat with Monica, founder of Mimi Blankets - beautifully-made wheelchair and stroller blankets that won’t fall off!

Monica’s seven-year-old daughter Sophia is the inspiration behind it all. Sophia has a rare neurological disorder called Rett Syndrome which impacts her movement and speech. She’s smart, a much-loved little sister, has a great sense of humour, uses a wheelchair and communicates through eye gazing and her iPad.  

When taken out in her wheelchair in cold and frosty Canberra, Sophia would often kick off her blankets in excitement. Monica was forever adjusting the blankets to stay tucked in! So, with an interest in sewing and a desire to create something practical and stylish, Monica decided she’d try her hand at designing and selling blankets specifically suited for use with wheelchairs and strollers. 

After much trial and error with the design and manufacture, and thanks to the generous support of friends and supporters through the Kickstarter fundraising platform, Mimi Blankets was finally launched! Sophia was very involved with the process, choosing designs and helping to make executive decisions. Mimi Blankets offer a range of high-quality, warm, durable, waterproof, versatile and beautiful products, and Monica is very excited to be sharing them with the world. 

• Visit Mimi Blankets website and order one today. You can also fund a blanket to a person for a person in need. 
• Find them on Facebook: Mimi_Blankets_AU
• Follow them on Instagram: @Mimi_Blankets

Plus: 

• Kate’s been laughing at the Betoota Advocate
• Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
• Melbourne forecast for Thursday 6 April - Late showers, 26 degrees 
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Mandy and Kate speak to artist Clare Whitney, partner of Bean Dino and mum of Lexi, a gorgeous 10-year-old with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. Lexi also has a younger sister called Summer. 

Clare reflects on Lexi’s birth, after which she was hospitalised in NICU for three weeks. Lexi had suffered a stroke in utero and was soon after diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Claire then found herself on a mission to ‘cure CP’ and threw herself into research and trying multiple therapies, trying hard to provide Lexi with all the support she could find for her in those crucial first three years. 

Given there was no NDIS and limited other support and funding at the time, Clare and Dino tried fundraising in order to pay for her therapies. They created this gorgeous appeal video and asked 140 people to join ‘Team Lexi Gem’ and pledge $1 a day for 365 days. Within 48 hours, they’d fundraised $80K!! 

Clare is also an amazing artist and discusses her return to her visual arts practice some years after the birth of her daughters. Thanks for sharing your story with us Clare!

Check out her artwork on Instagram and her website and revise 10 years worth of the delightful Facebook page Loving Lexi-Gem

Plus: 

• Mandy’s been laughing over Alanah Sabatini’s TikToks and Shrinking
• Kate’s been loving Queerstralia
• Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
• Melbourne forecast for Thursday 30 March  - morning shower or two, 19 degrees 
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Mandy and Kate chat to Sharon and Keeley from Keeley’s Cause, an Australian charity that provides iPads for children diagnosed with autism and intellectual disabilities. Keeley founded the charity following her own experiences of school bullying and exclusion and her strong belief that everyone deserves the right to an education. Sharon, Keeley’s mum, is the CEO. 

After struggling to get the funds to purchase an iPad following her own diagnoses of autism and intellectual disability, a tool that would help her learn, Keeley decided she would change things for other kids so that no one would have to go through the experiences she went through. She’s now raised a huge $250,000 and provided over 300 iPads to kids all around Australia. 

Thanks for sharing your amazing story with us Keeley and Sharon! 

Find out more about Keeley’s Cause via their website, Facebook Instagram and TikTok   

Plus: 

• Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
• Melbourne forecast for Thursday 23 March  - shower or two, 24 degrees 
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For World Down Syndrome Day today, Mandy and Kate chat to Sally, Pea mum to Jana, a little girl with Down Syndrome, and author of Jana’s Brightly Coloured Socks. 

Sally talks about her life with Jana, a happy little girl who is currently in her first year of school. Sally was inspired to write her book after reading another book about Down Syndrome to Jana's classmates. She found the children to be so receptive, open and accepting that she went home and wrote a new story about Jana, featuring themes of kindness, inclusivity, friendship, celebration and socks!  She then partnered up with illustrator Alexis Schnitger, who also has a child with Down Syndrome, to self-publish her gorgeous picture book. The book’s ‘sock’ theme also connects with the World Down Syndrome Day ‘Lots of Socks’ campaign that aims to raise awareness about the condition. 

Aussie Peas, Sally is running a giveaway to win a signed copy of the hardback, signed by the author and illustrator, plus a little bag of goodies!  

To enter, please:

1. Like and follow @sallyfetouh on Instagram

2. Comment and tag 2 friends in this post

Entries close on 21 March! Open to Australian residents ( only because there’s cookies inside the goodie bag 🍪).

If you’d like to stock Sally’s book in your bookshop or library, please get in touch with her via her website. You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram and Goodreads 

Thank you Sally for sharing your story with us! 

Plus: 

• Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
• Melbourne forecast for World Down Syndrom Day - showers developing, 21 degrees 
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Mandy and Kate made it through the 60's and have recorded snap pea 70!

Melbourne's Forecast 24 and cloudy.

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Mandy and Kate chat to Ondine Sherman, cofounder and managing director of Voiceless, the animal protection institute, author and Pea mum of identical 16-year-old twin boys with rare genetic disorder MCT8 deficiency. Ondine is our friend Mia Freedman’s cousin and is calling in from her home in Israel.  

Ondine’s boys have severe disabilities as a result of their condition. She chats about the challenges of their birth and diagnoses in Israel, where she was also managing her toddler daughter plus her unwell newborns far from her family's support, while also not speaking the local language of Hebrew. The boys were eventually diagnosed with the very rare disorder after a long search for help and answers that was spearheaded by Ondine’s dedicated dad.  

Ondine reflects on the challenging and often lonely journey of being a twin mum with kids with special needs. The family moved back to Australia for a while to be closer to family, but ended up returning to Israel as it was a better fit overall for the family’s needs.

In the last few years, Ondine’s been able to focus on her life and career again, and has written several books, including her memoir The Miracle of Love, Vegan Living: A simple guide to a cruelty-free, healthy plant-based life and the Animal Allies YA Series Sky, Snow and Star.  She also founded Voiceless with her dad to promote an equitable world where animals can flourish.

Thank you for sharing your story with us Ondine! Find out more about Ondine’s books, life and work on her website 

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