I am the Barkindji Warrior and I fight to break the Indigenous cycle of despair | Shantelle Thompson

We need to dig beneath the scar tissue to find the power that is within all of us

Ngayi, I am Shantelle Thompson, a proud Barkindji-Ngyampaa-European woman of descent.

I am a mother of three (including twins), survivor of severe postnatal depression that almost made me hurt my daughter and take my own life, sexual abuse survivor, second eldest of 17 siblings, raised by my white father as a single parent and separated from my mother and most of my culture.