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Book me for your next event and empower your audience with resilience and growth. Angharad is a woman on a mission; to build an anti-fragile, compassionate world, one person at a time. Angharad was born in the USA, grew up in the UK and chose to migrate to Australia as a young adult. She frequently says she is American by birth, Welsh by heritage and Australian by choice. She was the second of fou
29/05/2026
So glad to have collaborated on this project. My contribution is all about a changed identity from being able-bodied one day and literally overnight becoming disabled. To anyone who is feeling like they’re struggling to keep their heads above water, this book will definitely help. It’s available on Amazon now.
26/05/2026
It was lovely to start my day today being interviewed by Peace Mitchell about my chapter in the brand new book Resilience and Reinvention. My interview comes 48 minutes in but I encourage you to watch all of the interviews and hear from my co-authors. There is a huge on-line launch happening this week so I encourage you to keep an eye out for more interviews, chapter readings and webinars.
Authors Interview | Resilience & Reinvention Resilience & Reinvention tells the powerful, inspirational stories of women from around the world who have faced seemingly insurmountable challenges and deve...
My chapter in Resilience and Reinvention is called In Search of Ruby. Let me introduce you to her. Fabulous totally unplanned day with Matt Walker from Adapt Ability
26/05/2026
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Today's Resilience & Reinvention featured author is Angharad Candlin! ✨
Angharad is a psychologist with over 30 years’ experience in the community services sector, where she witnessed the resilience of society’s most vulnerable. Her insight is deeply personal—having faced psoriatic arthritis and multiple sclerosis in her teens, endometriosis in her 20s, and the loss of loved ones to cancer.
These experiences shaped her powerful perspective on resilience. She is the author of two multi-award-winning books, Bu**er Bu**er S**t: My Quest for Resilience and The Anatomy of Domestic Violence: Emily’s Story, and has contributed to Whispers of Resilience and Resilience and Reinvention.
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Scrolling through my social media accounts, I came across this video from Australian Independent Politician David Pocock. He is 100% correct but this needs a whole of community response so I am challenging my readers and community. What are you going to do about it?
It could be as simple as making a decision, like I did, to share as much as I could about Domestic Violence on my social media platforms so that the issue stays “live” and awareness continues to be raised.
You could send a letter to your local MP expressing your concerns and asking them how they have voted about Bills relating to DV. Ask them what they propose to do about DV, how they will address the issues personally.
It could be writing to the relevant State, Territory or Federal MPs and asking them what they are doing about it.
It could be having conversations within your families and friends about the issue and asking them what they are doing about it.
It could be sharing this post.
It could be volunteering with young people and providing positive role models.
It could be believing your friend when they mention their partner’s controlling behaviour.
It could be holding your friends accountable when the conversations and jokes are unacceptable.
It could be reading my book, or Jess Hill’s books or David Mandel’s book or Jackson Katz’ latest book so that you are informed.
It could be doing some training in how to be an active bystander.
There are literally hundreds of things you could do, we all just need everyone to do something.
Please comment below with what your commitment to ending DV will be.
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11/05/2026
“I carry your heart with me…”, e.e. cummings
Some journeys don’t just take you across countries, they take you deep into memory, love, and loss.
Standing at the Menin Gate in Ieper and later scattering my mum and dad’s ashes, I was reminded that remembrance isn’t something we visit occasionally, it’s something we live with, every day.
This reflection is about grief, ritual, and the quiet ways we keep our loved ones close.
If you’ve ever carried someone in your heart while learning how to keep going, this one is for you.
Read the full story, I’d love to know what it stirs in you.
https://www.angharadcandlin.com/post/in-memory
I’m almost at the end of my 3 month sojourn in the northern hemisphere. I missed getting caught in the Middle East bombing by 1 hour. I’ve been to the Paralympics. I’ve been on almost 80 trains through parts of Italy, Germany, Belgium and the UK. I’ve spoken at the Women Changing the World International Symposium in Paris. I won gold for Woman in Literature. I’ve interviewed some men for the book I’m currently writing; In Celebration of Boys and Men. I’ve run a middle of the night workshop for practitioners in Sydney. I’ve produced a research newsletter about Adolescent Mental Health. I’ve eaten, and slept and had precious time with family and friends. I’ve also been to three funerals because death is part of the ebb and flow of life.
One of my beautiful, life-long friends died very suddenly and unexpectedly in March whilst I was at the Paralympics. I am devastated and it’s going to take a long time to stop referring to her in the present, which I did twice yesterday. I am heartbroken that I won’t be able to spend hours sitting with her in bed or on her sofa, drinking endless cups of tea, laughing uproariously, being exceptionally naughty, putting the world to rights and talking about the deepest things that only friends of forever can and as we have done a gazillion times over the last 53 years.
Second of the three funerals; last weekend a little group of us gathered at my sister Halina’s grave so we could scatter mum and dad’s ashes and let them all be together forever. Halina died 39 years ago in November. It feels like a lifetime ago and yet like 5 minutes ago. Dad died exactly 11 years ago (10.5.15, today is 10.5.26, both of them Australian Mothers’ Day). Mum died on the 9th December 2025.
The third funeral was for my lovely Aunty who died a few weeks ago. She had the sweetest soft Irish accent, warm smile and sparkly eyes. Whilst of course it was sad, it was wonderful to be at what I have dubbed The Gathering of the Clans as my vast paternal family came together. I haven’t seen the majority of my cousins for 25 years so I was so grateful to be in the UK.
There is a quote that I have always loved and in fact years ago my mum made a massive wall hanging of it to display at an international conference that I convened, just as I moved into the second half of my career. It’s by Hundertwasser:
“If we do not honour our past we lose our future. If we destroy our roots we cannot grow”
I really feel like the past has been honoured in these three funerals and our roots have been fertilised and watered. It’s important to have a ritual at significant life moments. It might just be a quietly spoken promise, a lighting of a candle or like me, sitting and standing with others as we say goodbye.
I often say the job of the living, if they are able, is to take the hand of the dying, kiss them and walk with them to the gates of eternity. By golly it’s hard but it’s really really important.