09/01/2026
Honouring the lives and stories of the people on our streets, and the incredible humans who walk beside them meeting them exactly where they are.
During my counselling training, I completed my placement at a male homelessness and outreach centre on the Gold Coast. It was confronting, humbling, and deeply moving.
To sit with men whose lives have been shaped by trauma, mental health challenges, loss, and systemic hardship was to truly see the unseen. Behind every story was a human being resilient, complex, and worthy of dignity, care, and compassion.
That experience stays with me. It continues to shape how I listen, how I hold space, and how I honour each person’s journey without judgement, without fixing, simply witnessing what has been carried and what is the bigger picture.
Everyone has a story. Everyone belongs.🧡
