Honor Eastly is an Australian Mental Health Prize–winning artist whose work has been praised by The New York Times, The Atlantic, and TIME.
Her practice spans audio memoir, multimedia performance, participatory art, and long-running social projects. She created the internationally acclaimed ABC podcast No Feeling Is Final.
She also co-founded The Big Feels Club, which has reached more than one million people worldwide and now works with organisations to build more mentally healthy workplaces.
Alongside her creative work, Honor has contributed to major national mental health reform including as a former advisor to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
In 2021 she was awarded the Australian Mental Health Prize for her creative advocacy work.
I help people make sense of long-term mental health journeys — in life, in art, and in workplaces.
The best place to follow my work is the Big Feels Club newsletter, where 7,000+ people explore long-term mental health, identity, and the creative process.
I also work with organisations wanting to have better conversations about mental health at work.
The Internationally Acclaimed No Feeling Is Final Podcast
An audio memoir about living with chronic suicidality.
Built from years of private recordings.
“Mental health explored like never before”
- Financial Times“Darkly funny”
The New York Times“Total magic”
- The AtlanticNamed an Apple Podcasts Series Essential (2025)
100 Best Podcasts of All Time (2025)
Best podcast of the year: The Atlantic, TIME, The Financial Times.
“A unique creative voice speaking to the very real human fall-out of a broken system”
Prof Patrick McGorry AO
Former Australian of the Year and Mental Health Advocate
No Feeling Is Final — Live
A large-scale performance about surviving the impossible. Built from the bones of the podcast — reimagined for a single body onstage.
Commissioned by RMIT and UNSW, the work premiered at Melbourne’s iconic Capitol Theatre in a bespoke production featuring 650+ synchronised lighting, sound and video cues.
“A remarkable achievement…exceptional creative vision and technical ingenuity.”
— The Big Anxiety Festival
Now in development as a tour-ready national production. Get in touch if you are interested in programming this work.
“Deeply compelling, boldly innovative, and executed with exceptional artistic integrity.”
— Joel Werner, ABC
“Darkly funny”
The New York Times on No Feeling Is Final
Big Feels Club
Honest conversations about long-term mental health, reaching over one million people worldwide.
We started the Big Feels Club in 2017 because we couldn’t find anywhere that talked honestly about the long, messy, very human side of mental health in a way that was still encouraging.
Since then, we’ve been running conversations, creative projects, and lived-experience workshops that help people feel less alone — and help organisations understand what long-term mental health really looks like for the people they support.
“The Big Feels Club made me feel less alone in a way nothing else has.”
— Sam, Big Feels Clubber
The best way to follow our work is the monthly Big Feels Club newsletter — honest stories, new projects, and experiments in long-term recovery.
For workplaces
We also help organisations to build more mentally healthy workplaces.
Trusted by
Big Feels Club for
Science Gallery Melbourne
Other Projects
A decade of experiments sitting somewhere between art, feelings, and systems-change.
The Medicare Campaign
A national mobilisation project helping people with lived experience influence mental health policy. This one-person campaign was responsible for 8% of all submissions to the Medicare Review, reaching every state and territory, advocating for increased funding for affordable psychological therapy in Australia.
Two Years of Tears
A 730-day photographic document of every time I cried while navigating life and the pointy end of the mental health system. Exhibited at MOD. (UniSA) and released in real time across social media.
Bedroom Songs
A participatory series where people submitted their most taboo stories, and I turned them into songs performed back to them in their bedrooms. (One involved someone pooing in the shower — arguably the emotional core of the project.) Exhibited at NGV and PICA.
Other experiments include…
a parody social research centre (commissioned for Docklands, for reasons still unclear);
a movement-triggered musical instrument for bored office workers;
a sell out run of a sex-ed comedy game show for Melbourne International Comedy Festival;
a documentary made in psych hospital;
a hit podcast about art + money that people still stop me on the street to talk about;
a cult breakup podcast with my ex-fiancé (which famously ended in a Kickstarter-funded onstage reunion);
and an eight-hour attempt to fall in love with strangers for Found Festival.
I write about the long-game of mental health — the culture around it, the systems that shape it, and how we make meaning in the middle of it all. My writing has appeared in the ABC, The Age, Herald Sun, and even the United Nations. I’ve also brought lived experience into system-level reform as a Senior Advisor to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
Writing and Ideas
Work With Me
Since 2017, The Big Feels Club has supported people living the long story of mental health — and one thing became clear: workplaces often become the frontline of mental health.
We run talks, workshops and longer programs that help managers and teams talk about mental health in a way that’s honest, practical, and doesn’t make anyone want to hide in the bathroom.
“Depth and nuance you simply don’t get in standard workplace wellbeing.”
— Victorian Department of Health
Our programs have supported 3,000+ people, and we’ve worked with the Victorian Department of Health and University of Melbourne.
For HR teams, leaders and workplace wellbeing folks who know “awareness days” aren’t enough.
If you’d like to explore a talk, workshop or program for your organisation, you can learn more here.
Oh hey. You made it all the way down here — which means we’re probably each other’s kind of people. I’m Honor. I make art and ideas about the hardest and most ridiculous parts of being human, and I’m always building new things.
Feel free to wander around, join The Big Feels Club, or come say hi on Instagram.
And if you (or someone you love) is struggling with the rough edges of being alive… look, same. Keep going, fellow human.
Don’t Be A Stranger
“The strength of No Feeling Is Final is the case it makes for going on living”
The New York Times on No Feeling Is Final.