Beyond the Noise

Guests: Rebecca Wardan – Director of Nursing and Operations Josh Diluca – Program Manager Rebecca Wardan has spent thirty years doing the work, she has thought about stopping more than once, but she keeps going.  She has worked across emergency departments, mental health wards, youth justice centres, and residential AOD settings. For the past three and a half years she has been the clinical backbo...

Guests: Rebecca Wardan – Director of Nursing and Operations Josh Diluca – Program Manager Matt - Facilitator What does recovery look like when your world is stages, tour buses, and a culture built around using? In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Young shares his experience of 15 years of daily substance use and the 14 years of sobriety that followed. From a small town in regional Victoria t...

Guests: Rebecca Wardan – Director of Nursing and Operations Josh Diluca – Program Manager Stacey - Family Member Sometimes recovery begins not with the person struggling with addiction, but with the people around them. In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Stacey shares her experience growing up in a family shaped by addiction and the moment she realised that protecting her own health and safety me...

Guests: Rebecca Wardan – Director of Nursing and Operations Josh Diluca – Program Manager Ruben - Ex-resident Relapse is often framed as failure. In reality it can be part of learning what recovery truly requires.  In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Ruben shares his lived experience of relapse. Not as a lack of effort or care, but as a sign that something deeper still needed attention. From ente...

Guests: Rebecca Wardan – Director of Nursing and Operations Josh Diluca – Program Manager Cathryn O'Brine - Past program participant What does early recovery really feel like? In this honest and deeply human episode of Beyond the Noise, Cath shares her experience of the first eight months of recovery from meth addiction. A time marked by emotional rawness, vulnerability, discomfort, and profound g...

Guests: Rebecca Wardan – Director of Nursing and Operations Josh Diluca – Program Manager From shame and separation to faith and freedom. In this powerful episode of Beyond the Noise, Josh - Program Manager at Arrow Health, shares his journey through addiction, fatherhood, and recovery. He opens up about the narratives that shaped his early life, the turning points that brought him to treatment, a...

Guests: Toby Lawrence – CEO, Arrow Health Rebecca Wardan – Director of Nursing and Operations Julie Leiber – Family Counsellor Addiction doesn’t just affect the individual, it ripples through families, relationships, and generations. In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Toby, Rebecca, and Julie unpack why addiction is often described as a “family disease,” how denial and guilt show up in family sy...