Episode 127. Pip Bain – Taking the long way around
Listeners are advised that this episode discusses suicide, and may not be suitable for all audiences.
The first year out of school is equally exciting and terrifying – you’re considered an adult by society, and with that comes both freedoms and responsibilities.
With her high school experience not being the best, and her first job on a station getting off to a rocky start, Pip Bain felt like she had finally found her feet only to learn that her mother had passed away by suicide.
The profound loss of her mother was only amplified by the shock, as Pip learnt she had been sheltered from her mother’s mental health struggles.
In this episode Pip shares her story of how the next decade of her life would be shaped by losing her mother, and how it led her to take the long away around to find her place in this world.
Head back to Episode 35 to hear our first episode with Pip, where she discusses her early life growing up on a cattle station in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.