Waipuna Lodge venue was host for this educational and anticipated event. The Burn Support Group were thrilled to have the brilliant guest speaker Dr. Martha Druery, who is in New Zealand attending and presenting at the formidable ANZBA Conference. Martha is the first recipient of the Alan and Delwyn Breslau Scholarship Fund, established and created by the very generous Dr. Julian Lofts. With Martha’s visit to New Zealand the Charity took the golden opportunity for others to hear her wealth of knowledge, fabulous commitment and dedication to the burn community. Dr Martha called her presentation “Life by Design (not by default) After Trauma” and took the audience on the back roads from the trauma of burn injury to the potential for joy and post-traumatic growth. She shared her fascination for how trauma can affect every aspect of your life, how your body is designed to react in the distressing ways it sometimes does and most importantly, what we can do to override mother nature’s weird efforts to make us feel safe after trauma (and even just stress). Dr Martha is on a mission to help people understand what makes them tick (in a “not boring” way!), understand that many of the distressing things we experiences as human beings are ‘normal reactions to abnormal events’ and find ways to be kinder to ourselves so that we can live a life we love.