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Dr Tracy Westerman AM

@drtracywesterman.bsky.social

Nyamal woman; psychologist, marathoner, founder Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, cocker spaniel mum. Author.

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Politicians claim opinion polls don’t matter- yet their actions are always completely dictated by them.

23.11.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 676    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 3
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Honoured Jilya is Audible’s Top 20 Best of the Year (Aus) 2025!🌟
This story shares strength & resilience from our communities.
Thank you for the support❀️
🎧Buy/listen:
Audible: audible.com.au/pd/B0F48XK745
Amazon: amzn.asia/d/4LyL2fT
UQP: uqp.com.au/books/jilya
#AudibleBestOf

18.11.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5

Recommend buying Jilya and listening to Dr Tracy Westerman reading audiobook too! There’s so much depth to Jilya and many moving stories. #psychology #Indigenous #FirstNations #mentalhealth

18.11.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Honoured Jilya is Audible’s Top 20 Best of the Year (Aus) 2025!🌟
This story shares strength & resilience from our communities.
Thank you for the support❀️
🎧Buy/listen:
Audible: audible.com.au/pd/B0F48XK745
Amazon: amzn.asia/d/4LyL2fT
UQP: uqp.com.au/books/jilya
#AudibleBestOf

18.11.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

16.11.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 58869    πŸ” 36181    πŸ’¬ 1294    πŸ“Œ 2844

Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding.

Reporter: Was it your brain?

Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well. They said it was the best result they had ever seen.

Comedy has never been THIS easy

15.11.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Epstein thing has his malignant narcissism dialed up to 10.

15.11.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11916    πŸ” 2560    πŸ’¬ 1518    πŸ“Œ 302

Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding.

Reporter: Was it your brain?

Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well. They said it was the best result they had ever seen.

Comedy has never been THIS easy

15.11.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

A great leader should plan their own succession.
Poor leaders fear the growth of others instead of cultivating it.

14.11.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Beautiful

14.11.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A great leader should plan their own succession.
Poor leaders fear the growth of others instead of cultivating it.

14.11.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

People throw this cultural safety word around a lot.

So let’s make this really simple for the kids in the back stalls.

You need to listen more and talk less when you’re around Indigenous voices and cultural knowledge holders.

Not hard.

12.11.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

People throw this cultural safety word around a lot.

So let’s make this really simple for the kids in the back stalls.

You need to listen more and talk less when you’re around Indigenous voices and cultural knowledge holders.

Not hard.

12.11.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
CHRE Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025
YouTube video by Curtin University CHRE Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025

What an honour it was to deliver the Curtin University 9th Annual Human Rights Lecture: Celebrating 22 Years of Research, Advocacy and Teaching

πŸŽ₯ Watch the full lecture and opening address here: youtu.be/fcvF-6fQD8A

07.11.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
CHRE Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025
YouTube video by Curtin University CHRE Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025

What an honour it was to deliver the Curtin University 9th Annual Human Rights Lecture: Celebrating 22 Years of Research, Advocacy and Teaching

πŸŽ₯ Watch the full lecture and opening address here: youtu.be/fcvF-6fQD8A

07.11.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Racial trauma needs to be in the DSM.

06.11.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟 Finally!! The 2026 Training Calendar is here!
Join me β€” as I continue my mission to build culturally competent workforces across the nation.
I’m very excited to announce BROOME & MOUNT ISA for the first time due to high demand from these regions
πŸ“… scan the QR code at the end of video to register

04.11.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Absolutely brilliant

05.11.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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🌟 Finally!! The 2026 Training Calendar is here!
Join me β€” as I continue my mission to build culturally competent workforces across the nation.
I’m very excited to announce BROOME & MOUNT ISA for the first time due to high demand from these regions
πŸ“… scan the QR code at the end of video to register

04.11.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Very excited to announce that I’ve been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2026 Australian of the Year for WA!

Winners will be announced on November 13.

The platform this gives to critical issues is why it’s such an honour. So many worthy finalists. Thrilled to be included amongst them.

30.10.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 271    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 6

When children grow up with constant criticism, they don’t stop loving their parents β€” they stop loving themselves.

Love and forgiveness aren’t luxuries in parenting; they’re lessons in self-worth.

Kids don’t need perfect parents β€” they need repair, not rejection. πŸ’›

02.11.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Today’s good news.

30.10.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Very excited to announce that I’ve been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2026 Australian of the Year for WA!

Winners will be announced on November 13.

The platform this gives to critical issues is why it’s such an honour. So many worthy finalists. Thrilled to be included amongst them.

30.10.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 271    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 6

I’m about to announce my 2026 workshop calendar and Melbourne is on the list

Will post it here in the coming days

26.10.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brilliant to receive a standing ovation for my Keynote address this morning at the Rural Medicine Australia conference in
Perth this morning on β€œWhy close the gap is fundamentally flawed: why we are failing our most vulnerable”
It was a big room & the ovation went on a while #humbled
#RMA2025

24.10.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Brilliant to receive a standing ovation for my Keynote address this morning at the Rural Medicine Australia conference in
Perth this morning on β€œWhy close the gap is fundamentally flawed: why we are failing our most vulnerable”
It was a big room & the ovation went on a while #humbled
#RMA2025

24.10.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Can't believe RFK Jr didn't win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for finding that Tylenol and circumcision cause autism.
Decades of studies run by the most preeminent scientists in the world have failed to find what someone with no medical training discovered in a few months.
πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„
Yes this is sarcasm.

11.10.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just finished @drtracywesterman.bsky.social incredible book Jilya. Powerful narrative on her transformational work in mental health and trauma, and the failure of national system to support Aboriginal Australians in culturally appripoetae ways.

11.10.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suffering can paradoxically have transformative power.

Post-trauma the brain is most capable of making significant changes, reorganizing & recovering.

Post-traumatic growth is a psychological transformation that follows stress & finds purpose in pain.

11.10.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ Massive News! πŸŽ‰
The inaugural Jilya Indigenous Psychology Conference is happening 5 Dec 2025 in Perth!

✨ Keynote by Dr Tracy Westerman AM
🎟 Only 300 tix + livestream available

events.humanitix.com/the-jilya-in...

#IndigenousPsychology #DrTracyWesterman

30.08.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 21

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