Episodes

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3 May 2026 33:54

The Invisible Architecture

How neoliberal ideology and the 2012 Health and Social Care Act produced the fragmented system practitioners live inside today — and why the cracks are not accidents but design choices.

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1 Apr 2026 13:54

Pain Comes First

The argument behind the book in short form. Introduces co-emergence as a way of understanding mental distress and substance use without splitting them into separate categories the system can sort.

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16 Aug 2025 21:08

Through the Cracks

Stories from prisons, streets, and crisis services — what it looks like, on the ground, when systems are structurally incapable of holding the people in front of them.

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7 Aug 2025 01:17

Trailer — Welcome to Layered Care

A short introduction: who the podcast is for, what it's trying to do, and the working assumption that pain comes first.

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