Connection, Community and Resilience: Welcome to Kintsugi Heroes
Kintsugi Heroes share their real-life stories about overcoming adversity to provide hope and inspiration to people who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing similar challenges. Listen to the podcast to find out more about the Kintsugi Heroes mission, or head to https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au. #kintsugi #kintsugiheroes #storiesofresilience #mentalhealth #struggles #support #podcast #community #sydney #australia #lifeline ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ […]
“The bottom line between people connecting with each other is Music.” – How Choir Creates Community
Kintsugi Heroes share their real-life stories about overcoming adversity to provide hope and inspiration to people who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing similar challenges. Listen to the podcast to find out more about the Kintsugi Heroes mission, or head to https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au. #KintsugiHeroes #MusicTherapy #GroupChoir #Community #Resilience #Connection #Storytelling ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES […]
Unmasking Trauma and How Rapid Transformational Therapy Helps with Stacey Uhrig | Kintsugi Heroes
Stacey suffered from childhood trauma due to parental divorce and remarriages. This caused instability, hyper vigilance, and long-term emotional impacts on her self-esteem and behaviours. Her parents divorced and each remarried within a few months so her life changed rapidly. She explains once that trauma responses like Fight, flight, freeze, and appease are understood, it […]
Teaching & Mental Health Advocacy after Trauma, Addiction and Loss with Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is a father of a son who died by suicide in 2021. He has a history of suicide ideation, brought about by domestic violence and abuse in his early life. His experiences and events like these, drive him to share his story, with the hope that the stigma surrounding mental health and suicide […]
Being Local during Disaster and the Role of Magooney’s Coffee Shop with Melissa O’Toole
Melissa O’Toole, a well-respected Broke Village local, gives us her perspective on the floods both from her personal experience and from what is now a hub of the village, Magoony’s Coffee House, which plays an important part in village life. Melissa and her husband Paul moved to Broke nearly 30 years ago with their family […]
Transformation after Trauma & Abuse and Finding Resilience with Helen Ryan | Kintsugi Heroes
Helen Ryan’s story starts with her describing how she overcame her shocking childhood in Norway and early adult life challenges. She shares her traumatic childhood with an alcoholic mother and facing sexual abuse while detailing her mother’s risky behaviour. She recounts living a nomadic lifestyle after working in the district attorney’s office during the night […]
A Love of Wollombi, Volunteering in the RFS & the Historic Pub with Chris Books | Kintsugi Heroes
Chris Brooks, the proprietor of the iconic Wollombi Tavern during the July 2022 flood, is a resilient and community-oriented individual. In the early eighties, when Chris was in the army he discovered the tavern during regular trips to Singleton. Originally a builder from Sydney, in 2016, he and his wife decided to buy a small […]
Using Entrepreneurship to fight Neurodiversity & Disability Prejudice with Mathew Townsend | KH Pod
Mathew Townsend is a neurodiverse social entrepreneur based in Brisbane. Growing up with disabilities he faced discrimination and prejudice finding his pathways into career and passions. Being socially isolated he often had anxiety and depression, causing him to feel low and uncharacteristic. He wasn’t confident to speak up about himself to help people to understand […]
Where Art and Service Meet: How Voices for Veterans helps with PTSD with Mike Armstrong | KH Podcast
Mike Armstrong is an award-winning contemporary artist, author and veteran of the Australian Army for 23 years. He served in East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and was part of the Tactical assault Group East. He did his Master of Arts while deployed in Iraq, and now works in a variety of media from his art studio […]
Natural Disaster Trauma: What the Research Says with Rob Gordon | Kintsugi Heroes
Rob Gordon gives us a powerful and detailed explanation of the effects on the human psyche of trauma from disasters and describes strategies for healing. He is warm and compassionate and his examples which all come from his experience over many years illustrate the complexity of the human response to tragic events and explain why […]