STRIDING THROUGH STRUGGLE: Kit Birks on Addiction, Recovery & Walking for Mental Health | S4 EP7
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What does it take to walk from the top of Europe to the bottom — alone?
Poet and mental health advocate Kit Birks shares her story of eating disorders, addiction, and how walking and poetry became a path to survival.
In this raw and inspiring episode of Mind Cake, we speak to Kit Birks, a mental health advocate, poet, and solo adventurer, whose upcoming record-breaking walk from Norway to Greece is a powerful metaphor for recovery.
Kit opens up about:
💔 Her experience with anorexia, bulimia, and substance abuse — and the difficult road to healing
🚶♀️ How walking, nature, and poetry became her tools for survival
🧠 The stigma around addiction and how speaking out saved her life
🗺️ Her upcoming world-record solo hike to raise awareness for suicide prevention
✍️ Why creativity — especially poetry — can be a profound form of therapy
With humour, honesty, and zero self-pity, Kit shares how she transformed pain into purpose and found meaning in movement.
🎧 Tune in for an episode about courage, connection, and the healing power of putting one foot in front of the other.
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