Crossing Boundaries with a Mission: Sustainable Wellbeing After Trauma

When trauma enters the workplace, we can’t improvise.
We need a foundation to build on — one rooted in care, presence, and systems that don’t collapse when people do.

After my time at the Wellbeing-at-Work-summit Melbourne, whe...

From Trauma to Sustainable Wellbeing

On 13 November 2025, I’ll have the honour of speaking at the Wellbeing at Work Summit in Melbourne — a global event bringing together leaders, HR professionals, and wellbeing experts committed to reimagining the future of work.

But for me, this moment is more t...

From Book to Boardroom: When Trauma Enters the Workplace

After writing my book Stronger than Your Trauma - How to transform from victim to hero - something shifted in me.

I felt a deep urge to do more.
To not only support individual healing...
But to help organisations create environments where...

Trauma, HR, and Sustainability Reporting: Closing the Gap

When organisations think Why Trauma Belongs in Sustainability Reporting out sustainability reporting, their focus often lies on carbon emissions, energy use, or supply chain transparency. Yet the ‘S’ in ESG — Social — is equally critical. It...

 How do we carry post-traumatic growth into the heart of our organisations?

After months of reflection, writing and deep inner work, I’ve shared the five phases of post-traumatic growth.

I’ve told you how trauma reshaped my life —
How healing didn't come through forgetting, but through remembering...

A Place to Heal: Growing Together After Trauma

After moving through the five phases of post-traumatic growth — as we explored earlier through Dr. Edith Shiro’s model — a quiet longing began to grow within me.

A longing to do more than just share my story.
I wanted to support others in finding thei...

Everything is realised little by little.

Charles Baudelaire

After navigating through the shadows of trauma and the deep work of recovery, there comes a powerful shift—a transformation. This final phase, as described by Dr. Edith Shiro in her work on post-traumatic growth, is not the end of healing...

I no longer feed my trauma

 I now see what’s possible — because it no longer controls my life.

After awareness, safety, awakening and becoming…
comes integration — the phase where everything starts to land.

It’s not the end of the journey.
But it’s where things begin to settle.
Where fragments re...

Rewriting your story begins by reconnecting with your inner truth

Loss frees you — in the empty space left behind, anything can happen.
Something out of nothing.”
— Raynor Winn

From surviving to shaping: a new story begins

The third phase in the process of post-traumatic growth is a gentle ...

 Before we can grow, we must feel safe. Not just safe from the world, but safe within ourselves.

 

I believe
the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone
is to be seen,
heard,
understood
and touched by them.

The greatest gift I can give
is to see,
hear,
understand
and touch another pe...

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.

^{It is the one that is most adaptable to change”}

^{Charles Darwin}  

Awareness is not clarity. It’s the beginning of it. After a one-time traumatic event, the world may keep turning — but yours has stopped....