My story: singing the blues away at my local pub choir
Two years of tragic events, trauma and illness in her family took away Gillian’s love for life and eroded her confidence. But when she worked up the courage to join a local pub choir, she began to feel her old self slowly returning.
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My Story: Why it’s cool to be kind
After her dream of becoming a mother disappeared for good, Naomi searched for a way of giving meaning to her life that would also bring happiness to others.
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My Story: Making art in the sand
David Hilliam (known as ‘Beach Tagger’) is not your typical artist. Instead of a paintbrush, he uses a rake. And instead of a canvas, he has the beach. If you’re lucky enough to stumble upon his work, it’s a sight to behold. His massive pieces of ‘earth art’ have transformed Auckland’s west coast beaches into breathtaking spectacles. We sat down for a Q&A with Hilliam to learn more about his unusual artistic craft.
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My Story: Darling Daniella
When Donna Meads-Barlow’s five-year-old daughter, Daniella was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, she had no real understanding either of the disease or of the potentially fatal risks associated with this incurable condition.
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My Story: Meet the small Kiwi business tackling big issues of poverty
When Nadia Key first left school, she was like many school leavers who didn’t know what to do. After taking […]
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Following in the family footsteps
After 64 years working at Kapuna Hospital in the remote jungle swamplands of Papua New Guinea, 93-year-old Dr Lin Calvert has finally stepped down. Now her daughter, Dr Valerie Archer, carries on the family tradition, and leads the hospital’s medical team caring for the region’s grateful residents.
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My Story: Behind the surgery screen
Jacqui Carter had never considered having plastic surgery, nor did she condone it. Then, despite her conflicting beliefs, she had little choice but to take a job working for a plastic surgeon. She reveals what she learned from the experience.
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The Power of a Secret
Sarah was just 14 when she was raped. Now in her 50s, this successful Kiwi woman is confronting her past to fashion a new future and demand changes in the justice system.
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Conquering PTSD with sport
This excerpt is one of several powerful personal stories of the Sydney Invictus Games participants shared in the new book ‘Unconquered: Our […]
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My Story: ‘I am the lucky one’
Dr Michael Wong was about to start work as a neurosurgeon one morning when an unprovoked knife attack left him clinging to life. Four years later, he has forgiven his attacker, adjusted his priorities and is agitating for reform.
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The Tolling Bells
A lifelong dependence on prescription medication transformed Claire McCall’s father from a charismatic salesman to an anxious addict. She recounts the journey of his life and his final decline, and the devastation dementia can bring to families.
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Out of the Shadows
Domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions, with incidents reported to police rising every year. After years of living with an abusive father, one reader knows only too well the pain, lasting damage and devastation such violence leaves in its wake.
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