Psychiatric survivors advocacy aotearoa newzealand

21/04/2026

21/04/2026

Prateeksha Sharma reflects on her own experience of recovery from psychosis with the help of music, family, and dogs, sheds lights on the treatment harms that often go unnamed and thus unnoticed, and discusses how to claim narrative, dignity, and voice.

22/03/2026

interesting

22/03/2026

Interesting, they have it in Libraries..

22/03/2026

22/03/2026

'Take It From Us' podcast episode 🎙️

Asha Munn is an art psychotherapist, EMDR therapist and founder of Breathing Space Charitable Trust.

At university, Asha got unwell and didn't think she'd return for her final year. Art healed her - she made work every day, figured out her future, and decided to become a therapist.

Asha's approach: no assumptions, no judgement, no analysis. Art therapy isn't about analysing work - it's about turning up, sitting alongside, and creating safe spaces where people can be seen without words.

Creativity is ordinary and human. It's accessible to us all.

🎧 Hear Asha's insightful story on Take It From Us with Kent Johns from Thursday 12 March.

🔗 Listen here ▶️ https://f.mtr.cool/rxarmbdpxx
📱 Or wherever you get your podcasts.

22/03/2026

Exciting announcement 📣

Lived Experience organisations Changing Minds, Te Kete Pounamu, Balance Aotearoa, and Thriving Madly will collaborate with tāngata whai ora, whānau and communities around the motu to design what a Mental Health and Addiction Lived Experience National Representative Body could look like.

Check out our website for more info and to get involved in the important mahi 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/bfatjdduks

22/03/2026

'Take It From Us' podcast episode 🎙️

Suzette Jackson has just submitted her PhD in social work at the University of Auckland, researching a unique drug treatment program for pregnant women and mothers at Higher Ground in Auckland.

Suzette is 13 years in recovery from drug addiction. Her research followed seven women at the apex of need: living in cars, multiple children removed, severe family violence.

Her big takeaway: be kind. See women as people first, not just mothers. Women who use drugs face double stigma.

Suzette would love to see these women given five years of support post-treatment with a system navigator to help hack the maze of housing, health, and Oranga Tamariki. Not a cost - an investment.

🎧 Hear Suzette's powerful story on Take It From Us with Kent Johns from Thursday 19 March.

🔗 Listen here ▶️ https://f.mtr.cool/rxarmbdpxx
📱 Or wherever you get your podcasts.

10/03/2026

from Thriving Madly

“HOPE IS A PRACTICE.
Hope is a philosophy of living. In this world, it is easy to feel hopeless, that nothing will change.
But we can choose differently.
We can believe there are more people who want justice - real justice - than there are people working against it.”

Quote by Mariame Kaba, an American activist, author and educator.

I.D: a stylised drawing of a raised hand shaded in alternating rows of lines. The text quoted above sits to the right of the page with Hope is a Practice capitalised in thick black font. Slices of yellow rays radiate outwards from the hand.
End I.D.

10/03/2026

For many people, yes..

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Dr Mark Horowitz, who is a psychiatrist, researcher and world-leading expert in psychiatric medication withdra...