When your mind turns on you

130 stories.

Kintsugi Heroes

Transcending Drug Addiction & Finding Success in Community with Mandy Alexis

After sixteen years as a functioning cocaine addict — hiding her habit behind business success and a fabricated lifestyle — Mandy Alexis chose to break not just her own addiction but her entire family's intergenerational cycle, using community, neuroscience, and radical self-honesty to rebuild her life from the inside out.

Kintsugi Heroes

From Fight or Flight to Paradise: Neil Morley's Path from Liverpool Streets to the Northern Beaches

Neil left Liverpool at nineteen with nothing but an inner voice telling him he was destined for something different.

Kintsugi Heroes

The Founding of Kintsugi Heroes with Ian Westmoreland & Aveline Clarke

Thirty years after a handwritten note from Dick Smith told him to pursue his dream, Ian Westmoreland finally launched Kintsugi Heroes — a podcast network turning broken lives into gold.

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Rethinking Suicide Prevention with Hayley Purdon

A PhD researcher who once hid a suicide attempt as a headache is now dismantling the systems that made her too afraid to tell the truth.

Kintsugi Heroes

Karen Humphries' Unique Journey Through Chronic Illness

Facing Stage 4 cancer and a rare connective tissue disorder that nearly killed her twice, Karen Humphries chose faith over fear and transformed her lifelong suffering into a powerful platform for patient advocacy and community.

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Personal Trauma, Family Tragedy and Stage 4 Cancer with Martin Gillespie

After losing his mother, discovering a secret half-sibling, watching his sister die of cancer, losing his father in a freak accident, and navigating a marriage breakdown — all within two years — Martin Gillespie was then diagnosed with Stage 4 blood cancer, and chose to treat it as a new beginning.

Alpine Series

Reflections on Black Saturday: Empathy, Community & the Ladies of the Black Belt

After watching her home burn to the ground on Black Saturday with three teenage German backpackers beside her, Roz Addison helped forge a circle of women survivors whose weekly coffee catch-ups became a lifeline for an entire grieving community.

Grit Diaries

You're Not Alone: Menopause Uncovered with Sonya Lovell

A breast cancer diagnosis at 47 plunged Sonya Lovell into a medically induced menopause with no support — so she turned that silence into a national advocacy movement.

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Facing Death in Indonesia but Learning to Live for Now with Francois de Neuville

A Belgian commando-paratrooper who survived the 2004 Sulawesi tsunami — saving a five-year-old girl while trapped between a collapsing hotel and a deadly wave — transforms his brush with death and the loss of ten friends into a life philosophy that refuses to let suffering outlast the pain that caused it.

River Murray Recovery Stories

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When your mind turns on you

Transcending Drug Addiction & Finding Success in Community with Mandy Alexis

From Fight or Flight to Paradise: Neil Morley's Path from Liverpool Streets to the Northern Beaches

The Founding of Kintsugi Heroes with Ian Westmoreland & Aveline Clarke

Rethinking Suicide Prevention with Hayley Purdon

Karen Humphries' Unique Journey Through Chronic Illness

Personal Trauma, Family Tragedy and Stage 4 Cancer with Martin Gillespie

Reflections on Black Saturday: Empathy, Community & the Ladies of the Black Belt

You're Not Alone: Menopause Uncovered with Sonya Lovell

Facing Death in Indonesia but Learning to Live for Now with Francois de Neuville

The Levy: How One Council Director Held Back a River

Let's Talk About It: Loneliness, Racism, and Finding Belonging with Ochan Aba

Requalifying as a Veterinarian: Natalia Gomez's Journey From Colombia to Australia