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Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers

This podcast narrates to you short stories, poems and letters from a collective of authors. It is a simple cup of tea in hand, or a long drive kind of moment, to truly immerse yourself in a tale or two. For the love of a good story!

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17:55

From Lonely Lunch To Living Community: Tai Chi At...

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/11/14

A quiet invitation at a crowded food court table changed everything. Four letters, four voices—honest, unpolished, deeply human—about how Tai Chi, shared meals, and a patch of soil at Bexley Uniting Church turned isolation into community. We read four voices that chart the same discovery from different paths: movement can be medicine, and friendship is a practice you do together. You’ll hear how a senior, newly single and adrift, found balance and new friends in gentle forms and monthl...

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2:43

A Taste of Headland

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/11/14

A taste of salt on the lips, granite underfoot, and a heartbeat that answers the surf. We bring you a richly textured reading of Headland by poet Jessica Klein-Gibaud, a piece that turns a simple shoreline into a mirror for the body and a ledger for time. Through crisp images of dense brown stones, white water sifting through fissures, and wind skimming the surface of the eyes, the poem guides us from sensation to insight without a single wasted word. As we narrate, you’ll hear how small det...

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2:05

A Taste of Elegy for Colin

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/11/14

A little look into this poem as we slow the world down to share an elegy for Colin, a farrier whose six-week visits shaped more than hooves. Jessica’s piece sets a quiet, reflective mood over people that have left this world. Colin the farrier as a steady presence over years, left a deep impression on Jessica’s view of the world. With sensory images of horses, tools and routine craft, small appointments become life-shaping rituals, where grief arrives late, gratitude arriving clear. Th...

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1:55

A Taste of M.I.C-K.E.Y M-O-U-S-E

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/10/17

A little taste of four souls on the edge of despair. One magical encounter that changes everything. At Disneyland, where wishes are meant to come true, Rose dons the Mickey Mouse costume one last time before her planned suicide. Behind the iconic mask, she carries the weight of an unwanted pregnancy and a shattered relationship. As she prepares to say goodbye to the world, an unexpected visitor arrives at the park gates. Five-year-old Emily, her body ravaged by Spinal Muscular Atrophy, comm...

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16:02

Just Like A Feather

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/08/22

What happens when we lose our seemingly magical abilities and must journey through the ordinary world to find extraordinary wisdom? This mesmerizing story follows a man who once walked on water but finds himself sinking to the depths where a sea spirit delivers his first lesson—that what he seeks lies within. From that moment, everything changes. Unable to walk on water anymore, he must travel by land, encountering profound teachers in unexpected forms. A tree spirit speaks of love that hono...

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54:25

Interview with Risa August: The Road Unpaved - Living...

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/08/22

When doctors dismiss your symptoms for seven years despite you knowing something is deeply wrong with your body, what do you do? For Risa, that medical journey led to a life-altering diagnosis of acromegaly – a rare condition caused by a pituitary tumor she affectionately named "Bubba." The moment an endocrinologist finally validated her experience with four simple words – "you are not crazy" – marked the beginning of a profound transformation. Rather than allowing her diagnosis to def...

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1:51

A Taste of Emergence

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/08/09

A little taste of Mama Earther finds a young woman she calls "Cockroach No-Breath" near death in a cave and dedicates herself to bringing her back to life. Over two years, through patient nurturing and unconditional love, she helps the traumatised woman—renamed "Sunshine"—recover physically, emotionally and spiritually until nature itself intervenes to restore her will to live. "Emergence" takes us on a haunting journey of a young woman who has retreated from life itself. The story unf...

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33:00

The Circle

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/07/01

What does freedom truly mean? Is it escape from society's constraints, or is it having the autonomy to make your own choices? "The Circle" takes us on a journey with Ali, a young mother who has followed her partner Sam to a remote property in search of an alternative lifestyle, only to discover that escaping the mainstream doesn't automatically lead to liberation. Eleanor Sharman crafts a story of subtle awakening as Ali gradually recognizes the controlling patterns in her relationship. From...

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12:33

A Good Egg

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/06/15

Rachel Faith's powerful story "A Good Egg" takes us on a journey that shatters expectations and reveals the transformative potential of conscious awareness. This story leaves you asking, what happens when gratitude meets mindfulness in a relationship teetering on destruction? We meet Sasha, trapped in a cycle of abuse with her partner Alex. The tension is palpable from the first moment—a kicked cleaning bucket, harsh words, and the weight of ongoing mistreatment evident in Sasha's apol...

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2:20

A Taste of A Good Egg

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/06/15

A taste of Rachel Faith's powerful story "A Good Egg" takes us on a journey that shatters expectations and reveals the transformative potential of conscious awareness. This story leaves you asking, what happens when gratitude meets mindfulness in a relationship teetering on destruction? We meet Sasha, trapped in a cycle of abuse with her partner Alex. The tension is palpable from the first moment—a kicked cleaning bucket, harsh words, and the weight of ongoing mistreatment evident in S...

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2:17

A Taste of A New Birth

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/05/31

A taste from the first breath of life, a pattern was established - a newborn girl met with maternal indifference, a mother overwhelmed by her own psychological demons. Through haunting poetic verse, this deeply personal narrative traces the shadow that childhood trauma casts across decades, threatening to engulf the next generation in its darkness. When the narrator becomes a mother herself, she faces her most terrifying reflection - seeing her own brown-eyed daughter suffering under the wei...

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7:43

A New Birth

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/05/31

From the first breath of life, a pattern was established - a newborn girl met with maternal indifference, a mother overwhelmed by her own psychological demons. Through haunting poetic verse, this deeply personal narrative traces the shadow that childhood trauma casts across decades, threatening to engulf the next generation in its darkness.When the narrator becomes a mother herself, she faces her most terrifying reflection - seeing her own brown-eyed daughter suffering under the weight of inherited

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2:31

A Taste of Firefly in My Garden

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/05/17

Have you ever experienced that magical moment when something you've wished for materialises before your eyes? A little taste of Johnny Lee's enchanting story "Firefly in my Garden" captures exactly this phenomenon through a tale that begins in a backyard sanctuary and culminates in a profound lesson about self-acceptance. Johnny, both an author featured in Voice Within's first edition and a talented digital animation artist, takes us on a journey alongside a protagonist who

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10:32

A Firefly in My Garden

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/05/17

Have you ever experienced that magical moment when something you've wished for materialises before your eyes? Johnny Lee's enchanting story "Firefly in my Garden" captures exactly this phenomenon through a tale that begins in a backyard sanctuary and culminates in a profound lesson about self-acceptance.Johnny, both an author featured in Voice Within's first edition and a talented digital animation artist, takes us on a journey alongside a protagonist who finds himself

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2:08

A Taste of A Love Letter to Humankind

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/05/05

Have a taste of this mesmerizing narrative, Chris-James (CJ) Melchizedek channels the voice of an ancient tree spirit delivering a profound love letter to humanity. What if trees could speak? What ancient wisdom might they share about our forgotten connection to them? The tree spirit takes us back hundreds of thousands of years to when the first humans encountered trees as "towering streaks of light." With beautiful, lyrical language, we witness the birth of a remarkable symbiosi...

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12:51

🔒 A Love Letter to Humankind

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/05/02

Subscriber-only episodeIn this mesmerizing narrative, Chris-James (CJ) Melchizedek channels the voice of an ancient tree spirit delivering a profound love letter to humanity. What if trees could speak? What ancient wisdom might they share about our forgotten connection to them? The tree spirit takes us back hundreds of thousands of years to when the first humans encountered trees as "towering streaks of light." With beautiful, lyrical language, we witness the birth of a remarkable

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33:28

🔒 Finding Your Voice: How To Find Your Creative...

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/05/02

Subscriber-only episode What happens when a teenage fantasy reader discovers an undeniable creative calling that transforms their entire life? In this captivating conversation, writer CJ shares the remarkable journey of finding his creative vision and how it became the compass guiding his life choices, spiritual evolution, and artistic expression. From hidden bedroom scribblings in a small rural Australian town to Melbourne's vibrant art scene, CJ's writing passion evolved alongside his expa...

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8:20

Your inner voice can change everything, even during...

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/04/16

Finding joy during difficult times might seem impossible, but this episode offers a gentle reminder of our power to choose positivity regardless of external circumstances. Through Nick Vale's beautifully crafted piece from Affirmations Publishing House, we explore practical wisdom for maintaining inner light when the world feels dark.Even peaceful communities haven't been immune to the stress and uncertainty of recent years. Yet within these challenges lies an opportunity to transform our

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50:37

Multidimensional Storytelling: Breaking the Rules...

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/04/15

CJ Melchizedek illuminates the dance between creative rebellion and structured storytelling, sharing how his journey as a multidimensional fiction writer evolved through self-published novels, collaborative graphic novels, and experimental narrative forms.Come join Lee Rickwood who interviews CJ on his own journey in being a published author.• Writing the novel "Olivius" (2010) which combined linear and non-linear storytelling elements• Collaborating with a comic book artist on "Dark

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2:22

A Taste of Furies: short story

Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers ·

2025/04/06

Have you ever noticed something strange from the corner of your eye that vanishes when you try to look at it directly? Most of us dismiss these fleeting glimpses as tricks of light or optical illusions. But what if they're something more?John Shuttleworth's captivating short story "Furies" invites us into a world where those peripheral flickers might actually be living creatures with remarkable adaptations for avoiding human detection. Narrated by Shuttleworth himself, this tale

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