Take It From Us with Kent Johns
If you're navigating mental health struggles, addiction or recovery — your own or someone else's — you'll hear what actually worked, what didn't and what people wish they'd known sooner.
Take It From Us features people sharing their own journeys, unscripted and unfiltered. No theory, no talking points — just the honest, specific version of what recovery actually looks like.
Host Kent Johns is a broadcaster and health coach who believes everyone has a story worth hearing if someone takes the time to really listen.
Press play — you might hear your own story in someone else's.
If you need support, click here for helpful links, phone numbers and resources: https://ember.org.nz/resources/in-a-crisis/
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Latest Episodes
The second time he was asked, Tai Tupou finally told the truth
At 22, Tai Tupou learned that the man who raised him wasn't his biological father. He told no one. For three years he isolated himself, burned bridges and had no idea he was living with depression — until a colleague asked him a simple question...
For 15 years, she studied eating disorders. She was hiding one too.
Five years ago, Meg Vardy was a UK-based researcher studying treatment for anorexia. What most of her colleagues didn't know: she'd been living with anorexia herself for 15 years.She's since stepped away from academia to launch
Rob Brown: 'Who the f*** you really are underneath all the other shit'
"Who the f*** you really are underneath all the other shit." That's the question Rob Brown puts to every man he coaches — and it's the one he couldn't answer himself for most of his life. Two businesses built and lost, a marriage that ended and...
Grant Robertson: 'I am a catastrophiser' — the panic attack that changed how he copes
"I'm a catastrophiser," admits Grant Robertson, New Zealand's former Deputy Prime Minister. It's a confession that sits behind a high-profile political career — years of COVID decisions, and eventually, a panic attack he didn't see ...
Fan Mail
thank you so much for your podcast. My daughter wrote her own transcript before taking her life we found it after her passing. Suicide we as a family got it published hopefully to help others it was regarding sexual abuse and how our mental health system in New Zealand is broken you are welcome to look up her name on Google Chanelle Haffenden and her book is called the girl with one thousand scars so many who have read it have been in touch thanking us for getting it published. Also The Royal commission of enquiry abuse in care used her book . Take care blessings for all especially the ones on the same journey. Kind regards Karlene Chambers
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