Fighting Loneliness and Separation with The Chatty Cafe with Glenys Reid | Kintsugi Heroes
Glenys Reid is the CEO of the Chatty Cafe Foundation in Australia, an initiative focused on addressing loneliness and social isolation through facilitating conversations in coffee shops and cafes. Glenys has a background marked by resilience, shaped by her family’s experience, particularly her father’s time as a prisoner of war. Her family’s attitude towards life […]
Bringing Irish Community to Australian Mental Health Advocacy with Alan Earls | Kintsugi Heroes
Alan’s personal experience with homelessness and mental health challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, informs his empathetic approach to peer support work. He transitioned from a career as a financial advisor to a peer worker position in suicide prevention, where he co-designs and implements vital services to support those in crisis. Alan is an inspiring […]
Art, Advocacy, and Ending Child Slavery through Destiny Rescue with Tracie Eaton | Kintsugi Heroes
Tracie Eaton is an Internationally-renowned & award winning Australian artist with an artistic career spanning over 17 years. Tracie’s studio is located on the Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Her personal experiences with burnout propelled Tracie to transition from corporate to creative pursuits, emphasizing the importance of listening to one’s inner needs and embracing purposeful change. […]
Domestic Abuse as a Child Empowering her to Advocacy with Jas Rawlinson | Kintsugi Heroes
Jas describes her experiences with domestic violence as a young teen, which included she and her mother running through the bush to seek safety and then spending 9 months in a safe house. Jas’s experiences with her father’s emotional abuse, led to self-esteem and body image struggles, highlighting the deep impact of non-physical forms of […]
A Multicultural Dinner in Storey Park – Creating Community Connections with 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. #multicultural #sydney #hornsby #kintsugiheroes #community #connection #mentalhealth ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES […]
“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 […]
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 […]