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Mental Health Speaker in Melbourne, VIC
- Travels Nationwide
- From $800 to $20,000
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Available on Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Sammie Lee is a powerhouse speaker, trauma-informed eating disorder specialist, and coach, who transforms pain into purpose. With lived experience that nearly cost her life six times, she now dedicates her work to helping others reclaim their worth and rewrite their story. Her approach is raw, real, and revolutionary; blending deep healing, body wisdom, and fierce self-love. Sammie's voice is a lifeline for those who feel unseen, a wake-up call for those who feel stuck in shame, and a beacon of hope proving that full recovery is not only possible, it is your birthright. When Sammie speaks, lives shift. If you're ready to ignite real change, book Sammie today.
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Rachael's Corporate Event in Melbourne , May 2025
Sammie Lee was an incredibly engaging speaker. Our employees had nothing but positive feedback about her. Her story and the way she delivered it were truly inspirational, and it served as a powerful reminder to our team of the purpose and impact behind the work they do.
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Sammie has specific talks to tailor it personally to her audience members:
1. Sufferers (those struggling with eating disorders)
What they can expect from Sammie:
• Lived Experience and Deep Empathy: Sammie offers a rare level of understanding because she's been there; through the darkness, the life-threatening moments, and the painful healing. Sammie meets her audience where they are at, without judgment.
• Truth without Sugar-coating: Sammie doesn't just share surface-level tips, she exposes the raw truth of eating disorders, including the trauma, shame, and emotional undercurrents driving the behaviours.
• Empowerment through Education: Sammie help sufferers understand the why behind their behaviours, how trauma plays a role, and how to gently unlearn the beliefs that keep them stuck.
• Hope, Healing, and Tools for Transformation: Through Sammie's programs, private coaching, and speaking, you'll receive not only emotional support but also practical tools, mindset shifts, and emotional regulation strategies that help her audience reclaim their lives.
• Real Talk about Recovery: Sammie show's that full recovery is possible; not perfection, but freedom, connection, and a deeply fulfilling life.
2. Parents and Carers
What they can expect from Sammie:
• Clarity in the Chaos: Sammie helps parents understand eating disorders beyond the food and weight, guiding them into the emotional, psychological, and trauma-based roots.
• Empowered Support Techniques: Sammie provides specific language, tools, and techniques to open communication with their child, reduce shame, and create emotional safety.
• Education Without Blame: Parents often carry guilt. Sammie offers education and insight without making them feel like the cause, but instead, part of the solution.
• Mindset Shifts: Sammie helps parents release the need to control and instead step into a more powerful role: the regulated, grounded, supportive presence their child needs.
• Ongoing Guidance: Whether through Sammie's eBooks, coaching, or support groups, parents receive digestible, practical, and deeply impactful guidance to navigate this journey.
3. Women (seeking self-worth, body peace, or healing from the past)
What they can expect from Sammie:
• A Safe Space to be Seen: Sammie holds a space where women can shed their masks and finally speak the truth about their shame, pain, and hidden wounds.
• Liberation from Body Shame: Sammie teaches women to unhook from the societal lies about beauty, worth, and what it means to take up space; redefining and revolutionizing power, confidence, and self-love.
• Embodiment and Healing: Sammie's work goes beyond mindset; it’s about reconnecting with the body, healing from within, and becoming connected again.
• Permission to Be Powerful: Through Sammie's coaching and events, women walk away ready to reclaim their voices, their worth, and their lives.
• Soul-Level Transformation: Sammie doesn't just help them feel better, she helps them become the version of themselves they’ve always longed to be.
4. Medical Professionals (GPs, psychologists, dietitians, etc.)
What they can expect from Sammie:
• A Voice from Lived Experience: Sammie provides insights that textbooks can’t; illuminating the emotional, relational, and societal factors often overlooked in clinical settings.
• Bridge Between Medical and Emotional Worlds: Sammie translates the inner experience of sufferers in a way that helps professionals understand their patients with greater empathy and depth.
• Training with Impact: Whether Sammie is educating about trauma-informed care, eating disorder red flags, or how to speak to patients safely, her sessions are practical, eye-opening, and deeply informative.
• Collaboration, Not Criticism: Sammie doesn’t shame the system, she works with it, advocating for more compassionate, holistic, and person-centred approaches.
• Tools to Prevent Harm: From understanding the impact of weight stigma to learning how to navigate disclosures of trauma, Sammie helps professionals do better, with kindness and confidence.
5. Schools (teachers, staff, leadership, and youth)
What they can expect from Sammie:
• Prevention through Education: Sammie teaches what eating disorders really are, how they begin, and how to prevent them through early intervention and a shift in school culture.
• Protecting Young Minds: Sammie speaks directly to the harmful impact of school weigh-ins, bullying, body talk, and perfectionism, empowering schools to create safer, body-positive environments.
• Speaking Directly to Students: When addressing youth, Sammie engages with honesty, relatability, and inspiration; showing them they are not alone, they are enough, and they are never too far gone.
• Workshops for Staff and Parents: Sammie offers practical, non-intimidating training sessions that empower teachers and caregivers to recognize warning signs and respond supportively.
• A Catalyst for Cultural Change: Sammie doesn’t just speak, she ignites movement within the school community to rewrite the narrative on self-worth, body image, and mental health.
These are the categories of entertainment or other services offered by Sammie Lee- From Ashes To Audacity.