04/04/2026
Let me reintroduce myself. I run R&R Cafe with my husband Damian. My name is Trina Woolhouse and I am a psychiatric survivor. Many years ago I was locked in cells, put in a straight jacket, shackled to a hospital bed, stripped of my clothes, held down and injected medication and verbally abused and ridiculed by staff of psychiatric hospitals here in Melbourne. For what?Throughout all of these episodes I never felt fear. I looked for kindness in people’s eyes and I saw it in some. Some beautiful souls helped me and over time I became stronger, so much stronger. I have spent decades taking medication so I could have custody of my two beautiful children. Be the good girl. I was trapped in a fear based system. This medication dulled my light, my immense creativity and to a degree my joy. I am now free of all toxins in my body. A new era for me is beginning and although there is so much pain and chaos in the world, I love this planet. I love the forests, the flowers, the rivers, the beaches and the deserts. I love it all and have so much hope for it.
R&R Cafe is my ministry, my haven, my sanctuary. It is also my salvation.
