Rewriting the pain JEHAN’S JOURNEY OF HEALING

It was during a busy work trip to Wellington that award-winning TV journalist Jehan Casinader paused to open a text from a colleague asking, “Have you heard about Greg Boyed?” Jehan clicked into a news site and the sick feeling in his stomach melted into shock. Filling the homepage was the familiar face of his fellow TVNZ workmate, who had sadly died suddenly.

“It was very confronting because I was going through such a dark time myself and no onefrom a bustling Wellington café. “I thought, ‘I need to work to fight these thoughts I’m experiencing.’”