EP273 – Chain Breakers | How Monique Taipeti Turned Her Rock Bottom Into a Calling

She looked in the mirror one New Year's Eve and barely recognised herself.That was the moment everything changed.

Monique Taipeti is one half of one of the most powerful couples to sit on this podcast. When Marley Taipeti shared his story, it opened a door, and Monique stepped through it to share hers.

Molested in her mother's care at a young age. Fostered out at 6. Moved between parents. By 13 she was self-harming, drinking, and cutting. By 24, she was deep in addiction — meth, lies, two young babies, and a future disappearing.

This is the story of what happened when she finally chose herself. Nine years into recovery, she is now a paramedic, a co-facilitator of the Chain Breakers programme (Waiariki Whānau Mentoring), and a living example that it is possible, that you are worth it, and that the other side exists.

Waiariki Whānau Mentoring

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