Orangutans in the field — Merwe Steenkamp and Freddie van Rensburg

FREDDIE VAN RENSBURG | Podcast , ±43 min episodes every 1 week |

Two podcasts combine!! Freddie, from the Meet Me In The Field, joins forces with Merwe, from Talking Orangutans, for the vibrant, mostly lighthearted, yet hard-hitting, Orangutans in the Field podcast. A podcast between two friends talking about random life-stuff, and how these things affect their mental health. See if these things resonate with you. They even make suggestions about what works for them when it comes to their mental health and these life issues. These episodes are unedited and raw - as good as listening to it live!

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E20 Houston, we have a problem: How do you cope with stress?

44 min

We all have different coping mechanisms. Sometimes they change as we grow or get older. Firstly, Freddie and Merwe try to learn from each other what they do to manage their stress. And lastly, are these methods healthy or effective?

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E19. The Covid Judge: Self-critique and our behaviour during Covid-19 lockdown

35 min

Merwe and Freddie critically evaluate how they are physically, emotionally and spiritually behave during the covid pandemic and how lockdown have and are affecting them.

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E18 One Love @ Bob Marley oils. CBD oil and other psychoactive drugs in recovery

39 min

Freddie is experiencing a dilemma. He is Wellness Counsellor, embracing the natural route to health. Both he and Merwe are in recovery from drug addiction. The question they discuss between them is the place of CBD in any form of healing for people in recovery. They look at the difference between CBD oil and TCH oil and why one could be okay for recovering addicts while the other is a sure no-no.

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17. The Fabio Effect: When were you in your prime?

45 min

In sport, there is a clear time-frame when you were or should be in your prime - peak performance. As a human, when are you, were you or should you be in your prime? How to even determine if a human is in his or her prime? As a baseball player it can be home-runs, as a quarterback it could be touchdowns. As a person... Freddie & Merwe try to draw up parameters for this discussion and debate it.

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16. Do people freak you out too? Social anxiety - do we have it or is something wrong with society?

37 min

Many of us feel anxious when we have to go to large gatherings or even intimate dinners, either thinking it is normal to feel this way or totally freaking out because we think we are insane because people freak us out. Merwe and Freddie chat about their different levels and experiences of social anxiety, with Freddie never having realised that people freak him out.

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15. Army vs. Art

38 min

To be - or not to be? To be disciplined or to be spontaneous? Is one more important than the other? Freddie leans towards (extreme) structure, while Merwe wakes up every day at a different time. They discuss how each benefits their life and consider if they are effective. What do you think?

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14. High on life - is it possible?

51 min

Both Freddie and Merwe are really good at analysing and dissecting problems. We are not so good at taking a moment to appreciate and extensively talk about our good days. Freddie was having a cracker of a day and Merwe wanted to know why, what happened in the days leading up to it and what can we learn from it.

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13. I don't know where the pain is.

48 min

Merwe has suffered some horrible impact injuries with his schoolboy rugby and adult downhill-mountain biking. He was hit twice by a car when cycling on the road and had numerous other injuries. This podcast aims to understand how injuries have an impact the physical and emotional mind - how it changes the brain's capability and hormones and how this in turn changes your emotions. Freddie, as a young national South African medalist in athletics, fits wonderfully in with this discussion with his sporty background - not to mention his counsellor's perspective and knowledge.

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12. Life hack number fiteen: How to be a successful failure?

48 min

The inspiration for this podcast came from Merwe when he thought about how it is suggested in recovery not to compare yourself with others. He watches a lot of podcasts with very successful podcasters. He proposed this topic so that realistic goals for the average person can be set so that we don't strive for something that we are not willing to put the legwork in for.

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Lies, lies … all lies. But, it's okay. I forgive you

53 min

From the cheque is in the mail, I'll call you right back and I won't cum in your mouth, to I'll love forever and I swear I am not lying. We all know those are lies, but we don't exactly take this infliction on morality too seriously. In today's episode of Orangutans in the field Merwe and Freddie discuss the concept of lies that have become totally acceptable and debate what went wrong with society that we don't bring the perpetrators to task.

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2020

The Florence Nightingale Equation: The emotional cost of caring for yourself

44 min

Today in Orangutans in the field, Merwe and Freddie discuss the emotional price we, sometimes may, pay for caring for ourselves. They look at things like the uncomfortable feeling to set a boundary to keep oneself safe and other interesting twists in the tale of seeking the holy grail called mental health.

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2020

The spinach between your teeth and other uncomfortable truths

45 min

We all have people in our lives whom we care for, who are busy partaking in an activity that we perceive as harmful towards themselves. How do we tell a friend or a loved one a 'hard truth'? Is it our place to tell them? Are we correct in our observation that this activity is actually harmful? Freddie and Merwe try to unravel these questions in this episode of Orangutans in the Field.