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Connecting Seniors

Connecting Seniors

著者： Kintsugi Heroes
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Welcome to Connecting Seniors — a special series from Kintsugi Heroes, sharing the lived experiences of aging Australians to build understanding, connection, and respect across generations. Through honest, unhurried conversations, we sit down with seniors from across the country to hear the stories that shaped them — the losses, the loves, the lessons learned the hard way, and the wisdom that only comes with time. From navigating grief and reinvention, to staying connected in a rapidly changing world, to the everyday realities of aging in Australia today — every episode is a reminder that our elders are not invisible. They are essential. Connecting Seniors exists to bridge the gap between generations — to combat loneliness, challenge ageism, and celebrate the richness of a life fully lived. Whether you're a senior yourself, a family member, a carer, or someone who simply wants to listen and learn, this series is for you. Kintsugi Heroes is an Australian not-for-profit (DGR endorsed) dedicated to strengthening mental wellbeing through the power of storytelling. We believe lived experience is a gift to be shared, not a scar to be hidden. To find out more about Kintsugi Heroes and our other podcast series, head to KintsugiHeroes.com.au. Connect With Us: 🌐 Website: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes/ 👥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Kintsugi-Heroes-100084850387170/ ❤️ Donate (tax-deductible): https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate/#donateCopyright 2026 Kintsugi Heroes 人間関係 心理学 心理学・心の健康 社会科学 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • Twenty years numb: Karl Germann on complex trauma, queerness, and finding himself at 46 | Pride In Stories - Kintsugi Heroes

    Twenty years numb: Karl Germann on complex trauma, queerness, and finding himself at 46 | Pride In Stories - Kintsugi Heroes
    2026/07/30
    The 20-year fogKarl grew up in apartheid South Africa in a wealthy but emotionally distant Austrian-South African family, experiencing what he now understands as complex trauma rooted in his mother's narcissism and his father's clinical detachment. For decades he dissociated, unaware he was queer until his late twenties when he met a partner and came out to indifference from his family. He moved to London at 27, then Australia, but remained numb and disconnected from himself until the last two years. Only recently, after leaving corporate work and experiencing a workplace sexual harassment case, has he begun to reclaim his creativity, healing practice, and authentic self. He now writes, mentors others in isolation, and teaches people that the answers we seek live in the quiet spaces we're taught to fear.Karl Germann is a queer South African-born Australian now based in Port Macquarie. He spent two decades navigating dissociation and emotional distance from a privileged but cold family before recognizing his lived experience as trauma. He has since become a Reiki practitioner, author of the children's book The Land Where Unicorns Are Made, and community support worker dedicated to healing and connection.In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Dwyer, Karl shares the story behind the moments below.🎙️ IN THIS CONVERSATION:• Dissociation and small-t trauma can persist silently for decades without dramatic incidents, rooted in emotional distance and hypervigilance from childhood.• Coming out as queer or reaching any milestone does not instantly resolve the foundational trauma that shaped you.• Authenticity attracts more meaningful connection and professional success than conformity or self-censorship ever will.🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Welcome and introduction01:27 Growing up in apartheid South Africa08:00 Dissociation, trauma, and the Austrian father14:30 A narcissistic mother and emotional distance19:22 Coming out as queer at 2727:50 Leaving South Africa for London and Australia35:00 Corporate work, authenticity, and walking away41:00 Climbing Kilimanjaro and metaphors for life46:35 Writing, creativity, and The Land Where Unicorns Are Made50:14 Reiki practice and community connection through Ankali54:20 Building community, smiling, and winning people over57:51 Advice for younger selves and closing reflections🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode.📌 RESOURCES MENTIONED:Out of the Fog: outofthefog.websitecarlfox.com: carlfox.comLightunitedreiki.com: lightunitedreiki.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Welcome.We're glad you found your way here.Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most.Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another.This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan.Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens:• Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John Dwyer (launching 31 July 2026)Every story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected.Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here.New episodes are released weekly across our series.If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donateThank you for being part of this community.We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes💼 https://...
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  • Clinical depression, diagnosis, and advocating for struggling men with Wayne Wigham • Connecting Seniors

    Clinical depression, diagnosis, and advocating for struggling men with Wayne Wigham • Connecting Seniors
    2025/12/17

    Wayne's early years were filled with rugby union and league, providing him companionship and a mental outlet. Despite personal struggles with depression, sports helped him cope.

    From a young age, Wayne faced debilitating depression, navigating periods of despair unseen by others. Misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment marked his early experiences with mental health systems but did not define him.


    Transitioning from sports to the real world, Wayne joined the fire brigade, discovering a renewed purpose. Nevertheless, he encountered setbacks and tough lessons in trust, which impacted his mental health journey.


    After years of battling treatment-resistant depression, Wayne found substantial help under Dr. Gordon Parker at the Black Dog Institute and his path to mental wellness began taking shape.


    After his 17 years at Black Dog, Wayne dedicates his life to men's mental health advocacy. His straightforward communication style and personal experiences break stigmas and foster open dialogues, inspiring countless individuals.


    Wayne champions a new view of masculinity, advocating that seeking help is strength, not weakness. He emphasises emotional health, being a good person, and family bonds over societal standards of material success.


    Wayne’s transformative journey impacted his family positively, inspiring his son to seek mental health help. Focusing on the present, he stresses self-forgiveness and using life's challenges as growth milestones.



    *****

    We hope that you enjoyed this episode of Kintsugi Heroes.

    Please take care: if you have been triggered by listening to this episode we recommend you get in contact with someone who can help keep you safe and give you the support you need. This may be Lifeline, AA, a friend, a counsellor, or some other support group.

    If you’d like to share your story on Kintsugi Heroes, please get in touch by contacting us via the website here - https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/contact

    We hope you continue enjoying the heroes stories!

    Warmly,

    The Kintsugi Heroes team

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    Theme Song: "Broken" by Colin Lillie

    This Limited Kintsugi Heroes podcast series was made possible with grant funding from the NSW Department of Communities & Justice Connecting Seniors Grant Program. To find out more about the program, head to https://www.nsw.gov.au/grants-and-funding/connecting-seniors-grant-program-2025.
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  • Building awareness and advocating for wildlife with Sandy Steers • Connecting Seniors

    Building awareness and advocating for wildlife with Sandy Steers • Connecting Seniors
    2025/12/10

    Sandy Steers is a biologist, energy healer, writer, and entrepreneur. With a degree in biology, she has led 14 trips to the Galapagos Islands; run the environmental educational nonprofit, Friends of Big Bear Valley, for 24 years; and written hundreds of high-engagement educational social media posts describing the lives of the local bald eagles.

    During her previous career as a computer systems analyst and software designer, she founded and ran for 13 years a computer consulting company, Lorien Systems, which had over 30 employees and $2 million in annual sales. She was given a Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the state of California.

    But her passion and life changed direction after healing stage 4 cancer utilising alternative techniques and learning about the tremendous power, we each have inside of us.

    Sandy was drawn to Big Bear and was captivated by its mountains, forests and the sense of calm it brought her. She became fascinated by the local bald eagles, helping watch over their nests and working with the Friends of Big Bear Valley organisation. Through the eagle webcam project, she shared the lives of these birds with the public and sparked a global interest in watching and protecting wildlife.

    As an energy healer, she has over 30 years of experience in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Shamanic Healing (Inca tradition), and other energy healing modalities, working with hundreds of individual clients and students to guide them toward self-empowerment and mastery.

    She has also had over 300 magazine articles and two columns published on a variety of subjects, including animals, nature and healthy living. She optioned two screenplays, was placed highly in multiple screenwriting competitions and ran a national screenwriting competition for 10 years. She also won 4th place in a Writer’s Digest contest for an as-yet unpublished children’s book called All by the Light of the Shiny, Shiny Moon.

    Her philosophy is that we are limitless beings, here to express our own uniqueness by simply being the fullness of who we are. Besides being a spokesperson and advocate for bald eagles and nature, she teaches NLP and Shamanic Healing and has developed a new healing modality called Equations of Life.


    *****

    We hope that you enjoyed this episode of Kintsugi Heroes.

    Please take care: if you have been triggered by listening to this episode we recommend you get in contact with someone who can help keep you safe and give you the support you need. This may be Lifeline, AA, a friend, a counsellor, or some other support group.

    If you’d like to share your story on Kintsugi Heroes, please get in touch by contacting us via the website here - https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/contact

    We hope you continue enjoying the heroes stories!

    Warmly,

    The Kintsugi Heroes team

    YouTube || Facebook || Instagram || LinkedIn || Website

    Theme Song: "Broken" by Colin Lillie

    This Limited Kintsugi Heroes podcast series was made possible with grant funding from the NSW Department of Communities & Justice Connecting Seniors Grant Program. To find out more about the program, head to https://www.nsw.gov.au/grants-and-funding/connecting-seniors-grant-program-2025.
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