From Heroin and the Sex Industry to a Life of Hope | Bronwen Healy

This week on The Cherished Lounge, Kate Ouimette Wedell sits down with her dear friend Bronwen Healy, an overcomer and survivor, author, speaker, counsellor, charity and social enterprise founder, mom, pioneer, and self-described life-delighter.

Bronwen’s story is one of survival, recovery, faith, heartbreak, rebuilding, and hope.

After becoming addicted to heroin and spending years in the sex industry, Bronwen entered rehab at 24 and began a journey that would completely transform her life. She went on to become an author and founder of Hope Foundation, creating spaces where women impacted by addiction and the sex industry could be seen, known, loved, and treated with dignity.

But healing did not mean life stopped being difficult.

Bronwen opens up about betrayal, divorce, losing the organization she had poured years of her life into, walking through seasons of loneliness and wilderness, and eventually realizing she had to choose herself.

Kate and Bronwen also have a deeply personal conversation about boundaries, worthiness, slowing down, self-care, motherhood, friendship, faith, and what it means to begin again after life doesn't turn out the way you expected.

Bronwen shares one of the most powerful lessons she has learned through 27 years of recovery:

Where there’s a heartbeat, there’s hope.

No matter where you find yourself today, now is not forever.

This conversation is an invitation to give yourself permission to heal, flourish, set boundaries, receive goodness, and believe that there may still be another chapter waiting for you.

Connect with Bronwen Healy

There Is Hope Australia www.thereishopeaustralia.com

Love Bronwen, coming soon www.lovebronwen.com

Instagram @love.bronwen @thereishope.australia

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Recorded and mixed by Robert Altschuler.

Produced by Command Creative Studios https://www.commandcreativestudios.com/

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