The quiet room upstairs at the first Dubbo Women's Festival — plants, meditation films, and permission to stop. Built with the festival's first two sponsors, for women who spend their lives holding space for everyone else.
Midwife, child and family health nurse, Nurse Unit Manager at Tresillian Dubbo — and Panel 1 at the first Dubbo Women's Festival, on what 'normal' actually looks like.
Born in Scotland, trained as a land economist, and now one of the people who makes the Dubbo Women's Festival actually happen. Lorna Brennan won't blow her own horn, so we've done it here.
Nearly thirty years behind the chair and a holistic counselling practice on top of it. First sponsor of the first festival, and the woman who hadn't heard the news.
Exercise physiologist, Pilates instructor, and — with Charnie Tuckey — one of the two people who sponsored the first Dubbo Women's Festival before anyone knew it would work.
GP specialising in sexual and women's health, from Zimbabwe to Alice Springs to Dubbo — on the perimenopause and menopause panel at the first Dubbo Women's Festival.
Women's health and paediatric physio at Dubbo Base Hospital — on both panels at the first Dubbo Women's Festival, for the parts of recovery nobody warns you about.
Perinatal depression and anxiety, birth trauma, loss at any stage, and the fragile early bond between a parent and an infant. The work that sits underneath the festival's first panel.
Twenty years a women's health nurse, driving an outreach clinic around the district. She didn't just speak at the first Dubbo Women's Festival — she was one of the three people who made it.