My Yawa

My Yawa A man's journey through mental health, depression, substance abuse, anxiety and suicidal ideation.

Recovery is possible and there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are here to tell lived stories and help save lives through lived experience

Great night at the Country to Coast QLD Clinical Societies Primary Care ALL IN for First People’s Health evening. Was gr...
29/05/2026

Great night at the Country to Coast QLD Clinical Societies Primary Care ALL IN for First People’s Health evening. Was great to get out, network naturally without agenda and meet .75 who grounded us with the Yidaki. Was really good to hear from some elders and traditional custodians of the land and learn all about what’s happening in the clinical space for First Nations people on the Sunshine Coast. My highlight was the future of birthing on country and what plans are happening in the background to ensure this option is available as it has been used for thousands of years before us.

07/05/2026

Day 8 of 10k steps a day in May for Mental Health. Why it’s important to have a good relationship with a GP and Mental health in the elderly and how we see it today’s community. RIP to the Aunty ❤️👣🌻

03/05/2026

Day 4 of 10k steps a day in May for mental health! Support your friends in business and get around them when they are doing something to better their lives! Thanks to Sam Hoy for the support on this mornings walk and yelling from the other side of the road, let’s go 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻👣

03/05/2026

Day 3 of 10k steps a day in May for Mental Health! How to help someone when they are getting help and a little touch on how to step in and when! This is a complex issue and I believe it’s a case by case scenario as mental health and or an addiction or complex. I also want to offer my inbox open to anyone who wants to discuss this and or is looking for some help! 🫶

01/05/2026

10k steps a day in May starts today! Get those feet moving and make a positive change in your life and for those around you to see. If you already do 10, do 15 or 20, the key is making a commitment to make a change to better yourself for your mental health! I want to see some videos and get tagged in some of people out moving there bodies, showing up like this might just help someone you didn’t know who was struggling, reach out and get some much needed help. Walk, get on a bike, so something positive for your mental health and tag

Massive thanks to Kendall Hatcher MP for having me along to meet and chat to Laura Ge**er MP Minister for Youth Justice ...
29/04/2026

Massive thanks to Kendall Hatcher MP for having me along to meet and chat to Laura Ge**er MP Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support and Minister for Corrective Services to talk about our experience with youth crime on the southern end of the coast and in particular the assault W* endured, during it, the police response and since being a victim of crime as a family. It was a really honest open conversation that was welcomed by all. For everyone that has been a victim of youth crime I tried to put forth our experience as best as possible so the people making the decisions and doing their best to change things, hear us. has been extremely great support through all of this and gone above and beyond!

So I've kept it a little secret but I am now studying a dual diploma in Mental Health and AOD's (Alcohol and other Drugs...
26/04/2026

So I've kept it a little secret but I am now studying a dual diploma in Mental Health and AOD's (Alcohol and other Drugs) to enable me to have the clinical knowledge to start the 'My Yawa Health Facility'. I'm wanting to create an amazing space where people struggling can have somewhere to go after seeing their GP or being knocked back from a mental health ward and not necessarily fitting the mould for a rehabilitation centre - I have plenty of ideas of how this can work but it doesn't work without funds! So to celebrate my study and taking the steps to get my life back on track as they say, I've started a fundraiser for "10k steps a DAY in MAY! for Mental Health". Get fit, join the challenge and follow along on the the My Yawa instagram or Facebook. (you can make it a smaller amount if needed)

If your competitive like me, you can start a go fund me for your own social followers to support you through this and raise some much needed money for mental health that will stay on the Sunshine Coast and help those in your community. I have started one for me and anyone else that would like to get involved or make a donation to the 'My Yawa Health Facility'. There isn't any admin fees or anything like that, these funds are going straight to the facility I am destined to create.

I have just done 11,261 steps a day for the last week to show you that if I can do it then you can too!

We have lost too many locals lately and alot of people are struggling so if you can, lets do our little bit to give back to something where we at My Yawa genuinely want to to be in the trenches with those in crisis.

Here's the link to the Go Fund me or please create your own so you can keep a track of where you are at and let's get walking!
https://gofund.me/f208f5a1d

On the night before we were supposed to be heading away on a cruise with my little girls I had drank so much after a lon...
15/03/2026

On the night before we were supposed to be heading away on a cruise with my little girls I had drank so much after a long weekend that I tripped over our dog and down the stairs snapping my collar bone in half right where it meets my shoulder. I went to emergency in the morning but had to be at the port in Brisbane at lunch time so I didn’t get to see a doctor in time and had to go on the 5 day cruise with no sling or pain management. That was not fun! I could feel it moving the whole time, but I knew at this point that my drinking had become a problem and was affecting those around me but I had booked the cruise for my daughters birthday so we went anyway and I just had to pay in pain. That was last Easter. Still drank straight for another 10 months even though I’d tell myself after every weekend ‘OK this is enough now’ - I didn’t stop, only got worse. Is your drinking affecting those around you? 👧👧

If I was heading out somewhere with friends or to an event I would have pre drinks before the actual pre drinks. So my m...
14/03/2026

If I was heading out somewhere with friends or to an event I would have pre drinks before the actual pre drinks. So my memory of most big social outings is limited due to the amount of alcohol I had consumed beforehand. Sometimes I feel like I lost so much of my life being powerless over Alcohol but I’m lucky to be able to sit here and remember how bad things got and know that the future is bright because alcohol no longer plays a part in my life. It’s taken many attempts but still you just never know, even now, but I have everything crossed that my last dance with alcohol has occurred.

Day 1/10 of how bad my alcoholism got.I was drinking up to and sometimes more than a 1L bottle of Vodka a day. I’d check...
13/03/2026

Day 1/10 of how bad my alcoholism got.
I was drinking up to and sometimes more than a 1L bottle of Vodka a day. I’d check every night to make sure I had enough to start drinking in the morning if I wanted or couldn’t sleep during the night. I would say that sometimes I was probably intoxicated for days at a time until I got the help I so desperately needed. That’s 29.2 standard drinks per day (or more - sometimes less also) but at the peak I was at rock bottom. There was days where my body was giving up and I was just continually vomiting (up to 50 times a day) and was happy to not wake up the next day with how low I was. Sometimes you just don’t know how to get the help you need. First thing was for me was to admit I had a problem and stopped hiding it as a secret to those closest to me. That’s when the recovery started. But it was 6+ months until I was able to get admitted into the mental health ward. Things had to get really bad. If I can do it, you can!!!

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