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Looking Back: Flowers from the ashes

Emerging Minds, Australia, October, 2022

Related to Parental mental illness

Resource Summary

In the following video you will hear April looking back on her family’s survival of a bushfire and how they recovered to find happiness and feel safe again.

Warning: themes of bushfire.

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