Your Story

A collection of community curated stories of struggle and triumph.
You can add your own story or start reading.

Your Story

A collection of community curated stories of struggle and triumph.
You can add your own story or start reading.

Your Story

A collection of community curated stories of struggle and triumph.
You can add your own story or start reading.

A flower a day to keep COVID away

  May 16th, 2022

The pandemic rattled me. As an emerging writer I have an active imagination and in the absence of an avalanche of reputable data, I succumbed to fearing the unknown. Years of squeezing onto peak-hour trains to and from Glenhuntly Station, pulling my scarf over my nose and mouth, came flooding...

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DONUT UNDERESTIMATE THE RISING AND RESILIENCE OF BIG BEAR

  February 3rd, 2022

Meet the first of our Jigsaw stars! Ewan Fothringham is a quintessential Aussie bloke with a big heart. A former concreter followed by 12 years in the fishing industry, decided it was time for a change. But what does a shark fisherman do when searching for a career change? He makes donuts of course!

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MEET MARLEY

  December 14th, 2021

Hello Buchan Community (and East Gippsland), I am sure that you have seen or heard about our cutest new staff member, called Marley, and I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we got her! In late 2020 I was speaking to a parent who was having trouble with a child not wanting to goto school,...

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CBT CAN HELP

  September 13th, 2021

I just wanted to share my story and see if maybe my experience can help others. Since the fires in 2020 I have been super anxious and worried about everything especially anything related to the weather. It started off with heightened anxiety about more fires but recently I have been panicked...

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A MUCH NEEDED HOLIDAY

  July 30th, 2021

The fires were a terrible blow to us and our whole community. We stayed for as long as possible in Sarsfield before urgently evacuating to Bairnsdale. Our home was destroyed and we lost everything. After the fires it was just go, go, go. No time to relax or recover. Insurance, builders, the...

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