Recovery Stories

Julie’s Story Introducing Julie, one of our inspiring Ngulla Mia residents. Julie, a registered nurse, has spent the last 8 months at Ngulla Mia and plans to travel to Bali in the near [...]

Recovery House has given me my life back – by seeing and helping me see, my life and its value. It has taken me into my past, a place I had lived, but never wanted to face. It’s [...]

Robbie Robbie is 16 years old and was born with global mental development delay. Before the NDIS. he didn’t have much help or support in his education or learning life skills. Under his [...]

Tasharnie Tasharnie is in her final year of high school. With the help of her support worker, available to her under the NDIS, Tash can now do the things she loves – go shopping, play basketball [...]

There was a time when Katrina felt like she was ‘walking in dark’! She didn’t know recovery was an option, but today is looking forward to making a difference to many others. An extraordinary lady!

When I was 12 years old I began high school, I moved to a different school away from my friends, because my mother knew that a smaller school would suit me far better than a large high school. [...]

My life of 40 plus years had been full of ups and downs with each down being worse than the last. I had been hospitalised on psych wards on two occasions and after the last found myself homeless [...]

Rhys is a respectful, happy and interested young man! He has clear goals, a volunteer job, and is studying Horticulture at TAFE. Rhys, didn’t always feel this way, following four hospital [...]

Kadia’s Story I’m sitting in the meeting room having a chat to Kadia Brown about ‘Glitterby’, a painting that will be on exhibition from the 11th to the 17th of April, as part of ‘Art of [...]

Hi my name is Beck, I have a lived experience in living with a mental illness who believes recovery is possible;I feel I am living proof of that, as I am also a mother to two beautiful kids, a [...]