Nia's role at the hospital focuses on keeping her area running smoothly on a day to day basis. Then we learnt that a virus was coming.

Suddenly everything changed. How do you manage a hospital department in the face of such uncertainty? How can you prepare?

​Whilst many of us stayed home and managed our life from our houses, homeschooling and working. Nia had to keep going into the hospital. Working tirelessly to ensure as many people as possible could be treated safely. 

Nia had to face enormous uncertainty at work, and then she had to worry about bringing the virus home. This is Nia. This is Strong. 

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An intelligent, independent successful woman used to solo travel decided on a business trip to take a hike.

Something that Winnie had done many times before. It was the middle of the afternoon. She was prepared.  Later she would ask so many questions... What if I'd left 5 minutes earlier? What if it had rained? What if I had decided not to go at all. You only ask yourself these questions when something goes wrong. That day Winnie's paths crossed with a violent teenager and from that moment her life would never be the same again. 

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Being a rape survivor. Winnie had to rebuild her life. She is now an advocate for survivors of sexual assault, and has written a book based on her experience, even writing an imagined history of her attacker.

This is Winnie... This Is Strong. 

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How and why did This Is Strong start?

Emma decided it was time that producer and presenter, Nicky was interviewed to find out a little bit more about her and also to hear about the inspiration and drive behind This Is Strong.

This is Emma interviewing Nicky. This is Strong.

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At the age of just 30 Chandra's doctor told her she had MS, and her life would never be the same.

Living with a progressive disease has tested Chandra's resilience. She lives with never knowing fully what is coming next. 

Five years on she explains how she is coping and what she does to keep herself positive. 

One day she was walking and saw her reflection in a shop window and she didn't like what she saw. A line of poetry popped in her head about her MS. She went home and wrote a poem. Told very few people about it. During lockdown she found the time to put that poem to images and shared it online. Her secret was out and she was finally ready to talk publicly about her illness.

This is Chandra. This is Strong.

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I've known Tanya for many years and I have always admired her strength. She has managed tp carve out  successful career in a very difficult industry. Just over a year ago she decided to run the London Marathon to raise money for Alzeheimers Disease having never run before. This year she is doing it again. We catch up to talk running, how she's staying sane in lockdown and how positivity is now her driving force.

This is Tanya. This Is Strong.

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This time I revisit Kate from Episode 3. This Is Kate. Last time Kate spoke about her multiple early stage miscarriages. This time I chat to Kate about what its like to be living in California during the lockdown whilst being 8 months pregnant with her third child.

This is Kate Revisited. This is Strong.

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Recorded whilst she was in Sydney on a working holiday India discusses what it was like living with her father's long term illness and subsequent death when she was at university. How does a young woman cope with her father's early death and where does she find her strength to move on with her own life?

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Mary was brought up as a strict Catholic so when she got married "in sickness and in health" meant an awful lot to her.

Little did she know that she was in for years of cruelty and abuse. Her husband was a schizophrenic, and his condition meant that Mary never knew what was coming next. As she tried to manage the mounting debts that her husband inflicted on her she found herself working day and night to keep her and her children safe. This meant often leaving her children at home with their dad whilst she went to work. 

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It was only years later that she discovered that she wasn't the only one who had suffered abuse. 

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Mary is Cat's mum from the episode This Is Cat. She tells her own side of the story, and explains that whilst you can try and always do the right thing - sometimes it all turns out wrong anyway. 

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Mary tells her story in the hope that if anyone stuck in an abusive relationship hears her story and finds strength from it - then it was worthwhile telling.

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Caroline cares for her elderly mother full time. Her mother is now 85% blind and on various medications. Caroline is on-call nearly 24/7. It's a truly difficult task, but Caroline manages to do it with enormous positivity. Not out of any sense of duty but because she wants to. 

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She credits her husband and his amazing support, but she also credits love. The power that love can bring and how you can derive strength through it.

Despite her own health struggles Caroline is determined that her mother will never be cared for by strangers. 

This chat gave me chills and I'm sure you will feel the same.

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Emma's story is full of love, family and success. All great until the love of her life was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Through living with his treatment and his passing, Emma has had to be strong for her children and learn how to navigate her own grief. She shares her story of how she has coped with the year following his death.

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