Shanna Whan's mission to transform sobering truth behind rural drinking culture | Australian Story
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- Self-described "small town drunk" Shanna Whan has done what no one else has been prepared to do in rural Australia. Subscribe: ab.co/3yqPOZ5
She's outed herself as a recovering alcoholic and is using her story to highlight the all-pervasive culture around booze in the bush.
The founder of Sober in the Country was named ‘Local Hero’ in this year’s Australian of the Year awards for her advocacy.
In an update to our 2019 episode, Australian Story goes on the road with Shanna as she takes her message to political leaders.
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I cried all the way through Shanna's story, (& am still crying now), for her battle, and the awful ways she was betrayed.
She emerged as a beautiful, honest, resilient woman with a kind strong man by her side. Her story resonates with many & will continue to , what a wonderful ❤️ legacy😊.
Love this program!! Keep them comin.... Very inspiring and brave awesome story. Kudos to her!!!
😚😚😚 Love love this awesome woman- and kudos to Tim for the support!
May God continue to fill you with such love, care and grace.
I think Shanna's story resonated with so many .
I think most of us know or have known someone with an addiction & it's no party 🎉
I lived with an alcoholic for 8 years, an insidious disease that has the potential to destroy people ,if they let it.
I think Shanna's bravery, generosity & honesty helped her escape this awful thing & make a beautiful legacy.
Love ❤️ you Shanna, your story is the story of many relate with on so many different levels.
Brilliant. Shane helped me by sharing her story so fearlessly, which helped me share my own part in the journey with my head held high. All the best with the funding - onwards!
I'm so glad Shanna that you've been blessed ,with a beautiful husband & beautiful family and a beautiful legacy, after such awful ordeals, may
God Bless you and everyone else in awful situations ❤
This is such a great strong and very straightforward staunch woman, my deepest respect to her, thank you so much for your help of the future for people and families with this major problem in Australia.
It's a shame how it's become entrenched in the Australian psyche.
Happily most people only drink socially and it's not really a problem, but it always has the potential to.
I lived with an alcoholic and it was no party🎉 !
I believe many addicts develop a narcissistic personality which prevents them from seeing the truth.
My life was basically ruined in many ways, left in tatters.
So insidious how you can get drawn into their world 🌎 until you realise it's sucking the life out of you by degrees. Even Spiritually, it's like he sucked my life from me yet , somehow, l couldn't leave.
I managed to finally walk out January 2020, and I'm still, slowly picking up the pieces.
I hope your journey gets better x
Great story 💜
Watched today on abc aust. The Australian story .
Approaching her attempts.. this can be studied in soci Work MSW syllabus. . Her home shown in the last scene, is beautiful home.
Absolutely love this story!!! So proud of you!!! Good job!!! Prayers and love!!
My dad was an alcoholic it’s so hard to watch as a child growing up seeing the awful effects of it but I get respect from friends that they know I don’t go out to pubs and clubs etc for that reason I do t put myself in that situation not drinking because of my dad it’s not a bad thing to not drink,my children are grown up now to 2 sons aged 26 and 20 and 2 daughters who’s 18 and 16 the boys don’t drink the girls have never tried it and don’t want to try it my children don’t like it we can break that cycle of alcoholism I’m so proud of myself and my family my hubby does t drink either 🙏❤️
My father wasn't an alcoholic, but he didn't need to drink !
We lived in fear of him and his volatile moods. I'm still managing the aftermath and trying to put things into perspective. Thank God for the internet and all the information one can find !...😂
I grew up with an alcoholic in the family, it basically destroyed any normality in the home, all focus went towards this person, for years
which simply wore us down.
Constant rehab, huge family support was never enough.
Sorry to say, that I would rather walk barefoot over coals than to be in company of an alcoholic.
Wishing them the best of luck
Living that right now. No apologies or sorry for that person's actions either.
I pray your journey gets easier
As a person from the "outside", I can see a lot of the same, recurring issues all Anglo-Saxon countries experience.
Hint: stop sending kids to boarding schools.
The highly regarded TV sit-com As Time Goes By amused me. The series centred on very middle class people with very progressive outlooks in a very trendy part of London. In almost every scene they would be drinking alcohol. Always middle class boozing - wine, so much wine, and whiskey. The fictional characters' lifestyle was much admired by their real-life peers. They were mimicked. It became cultural. A glass of wine as soon as get home boasted an inner-city TV celeb who would walk through her front door at 10am. Alcohol is a problem across the whole of society. But only middle class progressives sanctimoniously discuss it as a problem for other people. Over a bottle of wine of course.
At a buffet, I personally sneak corn into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 boiled corn ears in my jacket pockets. It is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corn thinking they were part of the buffet.
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It is a dreadful disease, we need help in Nz to detox at home, would really help.
Sadly there are few really good support.
Good on her. Obviously she’s made a change. I’ve always been a big drinker but believe it’s a personal choice to control it. It’s not a disease.
Ditto
Beautiful girl 👧
This is so stupid.
Why
To weak to accept your flaw?