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Stories, life-lessons, learnings, tips and more from our M2M community.
How Walk The Coast Rebuilt My Confidence
June 2026
I was looking for every excuse under the sun not to attend Walk the Coast. I avoid so many social interactions because of my brain injury. My default defence mechanism is to stand on the outside of the circle and convince myself that I don’t belong.
This is exactly what I did at WTC, but I was pulled inside the circle so quickly that I almost forgot about my brain injury altogether...
From the Gold Coast to Brighton — and every millimetre in between
May 2026
I was 30 years old, working as a mechanical engineer in Gold Coast, Australia, living my best life. Then one Sunday evening in November 2024, I collapsed at home, with what I later discovered had been a massive stroke. No warning. No risk factors. No family history. Just me, on the floor, with the entire right side of my brain under attack...
Finding My Way Back To The Outdoors
April 2026
It’s 2am, and I’m in a CT scanner, immobilised and trying to find out what’s happened to me. They want to rule out a broken spine. Every threshold between lift and corridor makes my back spasm. The porter crashes into a door frame. The doctor asks him to stop because he’s hurting his patient. Nature never felt so far away...
Redefining Adventure to Find Hope
March 2026
For a long time, the word adventure didn’t feel like something I could connect with. It sounded big and bold – the kind of thing reserved for people who were confident, carefree, and full of energy. Meanwhile, I was just trying to get through each day, with some days even getting out of bed feeling like the most I could manage...
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