Nobody Can Save Me

“That feeling you are worthless, a failure and a burden, is not true.

You are unstoppable!” – Matt Runnalls

It’s time to change the way we perceive and treat mental health. After losing ten mates to suicide and fighting hard for his own second chance at life, today Matt Runnalls’ passion and purpose is to open up the conversation around this silent tragedy that affects thousands of people every day. His message is as fundamental as it is urgent: to put wellness back into our own hands and awaken each one of us to the fact we can help and support people at risk, in saving their own life.

Learning to embrace the luminous insights that living with bipolar offers him, inspired Matt to tirelessly pour every ounce of his experiences, learnings and well-being principles into the book he wishes someone had given him when he was younger.

Mental health is not about suffering; it’s about seeing struggle, adversity and pain as a gift, a teacher to a better life and a better version of ourselves. It’s about learning to embrace the breadth of human emotion that helps us strengthen the most important muscle, that of our emotional struggle. It’s bringing hope and acceptance to those who are experiencing unbearable emotional pain.

Matt’s drive and personal story have helped him assemble the most practical tools and strategies from world-renowned thought-leaders and game-changers in the field of mental health, inspirational people he’s been privileged to meet, work with and learn from. Matt presents an array of lifestyle practices and mindsets that can propel you or someone you know struggling, to true and deep well-being and an unstoppable future.

Nobody Can Save Me is the powerful new dialogue around mental health that we’ve been waiting for! It bridges theory with straight-talking, lived-experience and presents real insight and applied action for people struggling and those that care for them: parents, schoolteachers, coaches, bosses, mentors. Let’s get talking.

“A personal hero of mine. Matt’s unique perspective has helped thousands. This book is a must-read if you’ve ever experienced brain pain.”
Kevin Hinesbestselling author of Cracked, Not Broken: Surviving and Thriving After A Suicide Attempt.

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About Matt Runnalls

Matt Runnalls works tirelessly as a mental health advocate to create awareness, acceptance, education and connection within communities to overcome the stigma and effects of suicide on a global scale. Utilizing his own lived-experience of mental illness, surviving suicide attempts, and losing too many friends to suicide, Matt is continuously creating more platforms of communication to encourage everyone to feel comfortable to talk about and manage their well-being just as he continues to do.

Through his rediscovery of hope visible in the kindness of others, Matt found his passion and purpose when he wholeheartedly pursued the creation of Mindfull Aus at the age of 24. Since devoting himself to advocacy full-time, Matt has delivered over 600 speeches and keynotes, workshops, and events across Australia, Canada, and America. Matt has facilitated right across the world for some of the world’s largest Mind and Behavioral organizations, conferences and bodies.

Matt has also been a student of programs and workshops from leading experts in the field of mind and behavioral health including: Wim Hof, Tony Robbins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Dr Brené Brown, Tom Bilyeau, Deepak Chopra, Heather Yelland and Kevin Hines. Matt is trained in NLP, a certified Breathwork & Meditation Practitioner, Sciences of Wellbeing, Intro to Psychology & Counselling, EQ and Quantum Learning as Alumni at California State University.

Matt now spends his life in dedication to the loss of his mates to suicide, combined with the thought that saved his life in 2012—that of having kids one day. This understanding and passion led Matt to become a trained facilitator at the world’s #1 camp for young kids (www.greensupercamp.com.au) where he works with young champions to improve self-esteem, equip them with accelerated development techniques and a greater understanding of emotional intelligence and relationships.

Matt’s story and message have been featured in books, documentaries, songs, podcasts and films throughout many major media outlets. His dedication to change has been recognized in: The Huffington Post, Global Award-winning Documentary of the Year, Suicide: the Ripple Effect, Guts, Grit & The Grind: A men’s health manual, and also in numerous Parliamentary sittings. Matt has also been the recipient of an Australia Day Medallion in January 2018, a finalist in the 2019 Victorian Leadership & Innovation Award, 2020 ABC Heywire Trailblazer, 2020 AMHF Best Men’s Speaker Finalist, 2020 AMHF Men’s Health Award Top 3 placement, 2021 Australian of the Year Nominee and 2021 Westfield Community Hero.

Matt’s opportunity to ensure that the next generation doesn’t walk the unknown like he did, drives him every day as he continues to make a positive impact on as many people as humanly possible.

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