Lived Experience & Peer Led  Collective

Soul Shine Collective is a non-hierarchical, community-rooted initiative founded by people with lived experience. We exist to create compassionate, empowering spaces that foster emotional connection, self-awareness, and collective healing. At the core of our work is the belief that everyone has something to teach and something to learn, and that real transformation happens through shared stories, honesty, and identification not hierarchy or shame.

Founded by Banana and Sandie, Soul Shine was born out of a shared vision to challenge traditional service models that often isolate and pathologize people. Instead, we offer spaces grounded in equality, empathy, and authenticity, where individuals are welcomed not because of a particular issue or condition, but simply because they are human.

We support people facing addiction, mental health challenges, trauma, loneliness, neurodivergence and emotional overwhelm with a strong emphasis on lived experience, peer connection. Our approach rejects outdated notions of "professional distance" and embraces human-to-human support, where storytelling, vulnerability, and mutual respect are the foundations for healing.

Through group spaces like Soul Shine Feelings, we help individuals explore their emotions, connect with their inner strength, and move beyond shame and isolation. We believe in the power of community, and we see the courage in every person's story. We also recognise the deeper roots of struggles like addiction and codependency including trauma, fear, and low self-worth and create safe spaces to explore and heal those wounds.

At Soul Shine Collective, we are not here to fix people we are here to walk alongside them, in solidarity. We bridge the gap between clients/service users/patients and professionals, offering a space to empower and break the divide. Our mission is to help each person find their light and our vision is a world where people feel seen, supported, equal and empowered to thrive.