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Tui Taurua is a Ng?puhi wahine with whakapapa to Waitangi. Her introduction to the mental health system started in 1977, following her hospitalisation after the birth of her first child. Tui spent more than two decades in and out of psychiatric hospitals and her time in those units can only be described as dark, lonely and terrifying.

Michael Hogan was born and raised on in Porirua, New Zealand. He is a loving father to six children, four biological children and two adopted. Michael was a Methamphetamine addict for ten years, who went to rehab to get better and is now a drug counsellor helping others.