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Hi, I’m Zowie

A mental health advocate for addiction and sobriety. Sharing from my own personal journey and empowering stories from others.

I was not born into your typical family of middle class, my mother was a heroin addict and my father wasn’t around, I have one sister who is ten years older than me. I was born in a very small town called Moe in Gippsland Victoria. We moved when I was a toddler to Fitzroy in Melbourne and from then on we lived in a sky-rise commission block living to survive and that was it. For those who are from the USA you would refer to these buildings as the projects and this is what I called home for what felt like an eternity.

My community was immersed in poverty, crime, domestic violence, prostitution, addiction and grief. A place where at least one or more family members had done a substantial amount of prison time for crimes that were only convicted in order to keep the family fed. Home invasions, raids and police attendance was considered the norm. Growing up we saw things that no child should ever see. Before I had even reached my fifth birthday I had already experienced sexual assault, neglect, the daily visit from our beautiful neighbour with her face black and blue from her so called loving husband, a murder convicted in our playground over a family court dispute if you could ever imagine hell on earth this is unit was it.

Follow me on Instagram @changetosurrender

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