AUSLAN - Living an awake life

This video features Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpretation. Since 2015, Kate Seselja has been working tirelessly to break the tide of despair around addiction, and claw back a society that is addiction proof. In this talk, she shares some key insights into how she broke the cycle of her addiction, and how we can and should approach the struggle of addiction collectively. When Kate Seselja revealed publically that she’d had a twelve-year struggle with a gambling addiction, that drove her to almost take her life, no one had expected this revelation from the well-spoken, married mum with six children. The way our society judges and stigmatises people’s struggles is wrong. It only compounds the pain and isolation the person feels. Kate knew she had to be a voice in the darkness. Kate is passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Her recent partnership with the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) to highlight Goal #3 of Good Health and Wellbeing. “It is the most vitally important SDG through which all others will be able to be achieved.”