Real Voices
Personal stories and profile interviews centring lived experience, resilience and the many meanings of rebuilding a life.
A recipe to rebuilding life in a university kitchen
After countless mental health battles culminating in an ADHD diagnosis, life for university student Sebastian Chodyko was in turmoil. Aided by his medication and a new found love for cooking, he’s slowly navigating his way to feeling his best, one recipe at a time.
Fashioning Defiance After Flight from Ukraine
Displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yana Smaglo did not merely rebuild her life in Britain. She founded her own business NENYA, worked through loss, responsibility, and an unfinished sense of home. She had fifteen minutes. There was no time to decide what...
Surviving LGBTQ+ Homeless Crisis is “Luck of the Draw”
Laws and rights are one thing, but LGBTQ+ youth are still far more likely to face life on the streets. Uproute speaks to LGBTQ+ people who have turned their life around after homelessness, and questions why the system is still failing people like them.
Not ‘too young’ to be an Alcoholic
The typical depiction of an alcoholic is usually not a young middle-class woman like Mary-Kate Harrington. But by 24 years old, she was leaving rehab and now works to make sure stories like hers are told. We spoke with Mary-Kate and expert Dr James Morris to why youth...