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From homeless to heard: How one man’s homelessness experience inspired a podcast challenging stigma

From homeless to heard: How one man’s homelessness experience inspired a podcast challenging stigma

by Ewan Aulton | Jun 2, 2026 | Crafting Change, Homelessness, Real Voices

Photo: Barry Callaghan The podcast host using lived experience to challenge homelessness stigma one story at a time. Sitting behind a microphone in a small recording room in King’s Cross, Barry Callaghan listens as another guest shares their experience of...
How Gen Z is redefining recovery through #sobertok

How Gen Z is redefining recovery through #sobertok

by Arko Dutta | May 28, 2026 | Addiction, Deep Dives, Real Voices

Trigger Warning: The following article mentions suicide. For nearly a century, the most successful addiction recovery infrastructure on earth – Alocholics Anonymous – operated under a single, golden, non-negotiable tenet: anonymity. But for a generation growing up in...
Social media as bad as smoking- association of medical royal colleges says

Social media as bad as smoking- association of medical royal colleges says

by Benjamin Foster | May 28, 2026 | Mental Health

Photo credit: New Africa- stock.adobe.com A new submission to the government by the association of royal medical colleges highlights the effect of social media on children and criticises the government. The submission says: “The harm being done to children online is...
Confidence through challenge: How TikTok has helped Sam gain confidence in himself

Confidence through challenge: How TikTok has helped Sam gain confidence in himself

by Benjamin Foster | May 22, 2026 | Real Voices, Top Story

Photo credit: Benjamin Foster Living with a stammer doesn’t stop one man from creating a supportive online community to help with his self-confidence in his daily life. Sam Bagshaw’s last video that got over 1 million likes shows him at TGI Fridays by himself....

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