A weekly look into the stories of someone who has been diagnosed with a condition/illness and the choices and changes they have made in their lives when they learn that how to live with dis-ease, condition or illness.
A diagnosis can be seen as a gift if you look at it as a second chance to get to know and treat yourself in a more loving way. 
Lainie gets raw and intimate and draws out some morsels of gold from people’s journeys of what made them determined and what steps they took, to get back in the driver’s seat of the decisions around their health, alongside their medical and alternative practitioners.
24 Jul 2026, 10am In The Driver's Seat This week Harriet speaks with Carissa Thomas: a Chinese Medicine practitioner and masseuse based in South East Queensland who specialises in women's health. Carissa shares her journey and some of the central concepts of Chinese Medicine, as well as ways to support women's health across the lifespan.
26 Jun 2026, 10am In The Driver's Seat This week Harriet interviews long-time Northern Rivers resident Brad Thrupp: kinesiologist, remedial masseuse, Iyengar Yoga teacher, and musician. Brad leads a short grounding meditation to begin. He shares how yoga was a chance discovery for him on a surf trip, how music supports his emotional wellbeing, and how kinesiology can support the nervous system. He also shares how fatigue is an early warning signal for burnout, and how he responds to protect his health.
19 Jun 2026, 10am In The Driver's Seat I did a show mainly focused on anger and how that represents in the body. Talk about choices of reaction vs responding and play music that reflects anger and calm. There are no professionals in the industry talking on this show, I just reflect on it through my lenses.
12 Jun 2026, 10am In The Driver's Seat Nat was diagnosed with AVM, arteriovenous malformation, epilepsy, and depression, anxiety, and dermatomyositis. AVM is when the arteries going into the veins, they don't have capillaries. So the blood is going too fast into the veins. So it starts pooling and then it too much pressure. So it ruptures causing a big blood clot and that blood clot became the size of a baseball in a very short time. We delve into her life needing to be humbled by the big part her brain played in what she could and couldn't do.
5 Jun 2026, 10am In The Driver's Seat Dr Max Gulhane is a practising family medicine MD and health-optimising physician with a passion for root-cause analysis of human chronic disease and longevity. Dr Max's current academic and clinical interests focus on photobiology, circadian rhythms and mitochondrial health in metabolic health, aging, and longevity. Clinically, he is focused on visceral fat identification and reversal through targeted strategies including circadian regulation, chrononutrition, nutritional ketosis and exercise. He is also passionate about food system decentralisation, regenerative farming and Nguni cattle as means of delivering robust supply of high quality human nutrition. He explores these topics in depth on the Regenerative Health Podcast, interviewing world leading doctors, researchers and health practitioners. https://www.drmaxgulhane.com/
