Health and Wellness
Episode 88 – Becky McKeown – The resilience of a single parent
At the age of 16, Becky McKeown met her first love. Before long she discovered she was pregnant. The relationship ended with her baby’s father and Becky was left to raise her baby boy as a single parent. Although she was living on welfare she still found a way to continue with her education. That…
Read MoreEpisode 87 – Chris Wildeboer – Surviving on the basics of life
At the age of 17 Chris Wildeboer was handed $40 and asked to leave her home by her mother. She found herself in the big wide world all alone and even though she was relieved to leave the family home given the stress she was living under, she was surviving on the basics of life; with no…
Read MoreThe story of Baby Doe – Noelle Rose Andressen
“In the darkness, a silent frightened cry is heard, it is that of an infant struggling to stay alive in the surroundings of refuse, a mother has just abandoned her baby in a trash bin…” Those were the opening words of an Emmy nominated film my husband and I created from scratch with no budget,…
Read MoreEpisode 86: Is your home affecting your health – Nicole Bijlsma
Nicole Bijlsma is a Building Biologist which means that she finds the connection between built environments, like our homes, and health problems. Her fascination with this area and subsequent expertise, came about when she experienced 10 traumatic miscarriages. Specialists could not pinpoint the underlying problem and it wasn’t until Nicole heard of the work of…
Read MoreThe Question That Changed My Life – Alisa Bryce
You’d think that getting a melanoma, losing half your hair, and almost losing the plot would be enough if a sign that something needed to change. But it wasn’t these events that made me buck up and do something. It was a simple question, asked in passing nearly two years later, that I had never…
Read MoreEpisode 84 – Stacey Copas – How to be Resilient
At the age of 12 years, Stacey Copas’s life changed forever. She dived into a swimming pool, hit the bottom and was unable to resurface. Holding her breath for as long as she could she eventually blacked out. Her 10-year-old brother realised that something was seriously wrong and managed to pull her from the pool…
Read MoreOvercoming chronic pelvic pain – Tara Langdale-Schmidt
I have Vulvodynia and Endometriosis. These chronic pain conditions in my vulva region make sex painful, if not impossible, and for many women can lead to not only physical but emotional and mental problems. My problems began when I was 11-years old. I had extreme abdominal pain and underwent exploratory surgery. They ended up removing…
Read MoreHealing from depression – Leigh Johnson
In 2012 my life imploded as I struggled to come to terms with the loss of my oldest, dearest friend to pancreatic cancer. Around the same time, my mother began a very heart-wrenching, five-year journey with dementia, then my business faced a major crisis that threatened everything I’d built. Despite having great support, I made…
Read MoreThe Stolen Peach – Leanne Mulcahy
Her father found her. She was blue. His 3-month-old daughter was helplessly choking to death on her own vomit. Panic-stricken, she was rushed to intensive care. One week later she was back home. Her parents relieved and very, very grateful. I can’t imagine how frightening that time must have been for my parents, but I…
Read MoreEpisode 80: Alysha Bentley – What does success mean to you?
“When we understand our values and what makes us happy or upset we then have insight into why we might respond in a particular way and that’s when we have the power to change the outcome.” What do I want to do in my life? That’s the question that led Alysha Bentley to discover that…
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