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 work moves between audio memoir, multimedia performance, participatory art, and long-running social projects. She created the internationally acclaimed ABC podcast No Feeling Is Final, and later adapted it into a sold-out show for The Big Anxiety Festival. She also co-founded The Big Feels Club, which has reached more than one million people worldwide.
Honor has contributed to major national mental health reform including as a former advisor to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
The Internationally Acclaimed No Feeling Is Final Podcast
Honor’s breakthrough work, No Feeling Is Final, began as an intimate audio memoir exploring her lived experience of chronic suicidality. The ABC commissioned the series after it won the broadcaster’s $1M podcasting fund from over 1,400 submissions. It went on to become the only Australian podcast included in the 100 Best Podcasts of All Time (2025).
The series received international praise — “darkly funny” (The New York Times), “total magic” (The Atlantic), “something rare” (TIME) — and won the Director’s Choice Award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. It was also the only Australian show named an Apple Podcasts “Series Essential.”
“Mental health explored like never before”
Financial Times on No Feeling Is Final.
The Sold-Out Stage Adaptation of No Feeling Is Final
In 2022, Honor adapted her acclaimed ABC memoir series into No Feeling Is Final — Live, a landmark multimedia performance commissioned by The Big Anxiety Festival, RMIT and UNSW, and supported by the City of Melbourne, RMIT University, and the RMIT Capitol Innovation Fund. Staged at Melbourne’s iconic Capitol Theatre, it became the first performance ever created bespoke for the venue’s historic honeycomb art-deco architecture, using its full lighting grid as a dynamic storytelling instrument.
“I was transfixed by her performance”
– Pat McGorry
The 90-minute work featured over 650 synchronised cues of light, sound, and projection, creating an immersive environment that translated the interior world of chronic suicidality into a shared physical experience. The season sold out, and the work is now in redevelopment for a new touring iteration supported by Creative Australia, Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne.
“Mental health explored like never before”
Financial Times on No Feeling Is Final.
“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.
“I was transfixed by her performance”
– Pat McGorry
“Total magic”
The Atlantic on No Feeling Is Final.
The Peer-Led Mental Health Platform Reaching Over One Million People
What began as a small peer-led experiment has become a global mental health platform shaping workplaces, systems, and public understanding.
Honor co-founded The Big Feels Club to create the kind of space she wished existed: honest, non-clinical, and led by people who’ve lived through the pointy end of the mental health system. Today, the project has reached over one million people with essays, workshops, and creative programs speaking to the realities of long-term recovery.
The Big Feels Club has worked with organisations including the Department of Health, University of Melbourne, and the Myer Foundation, and was a VicHealth Award finalist. Its work uses storytelling and lived experience leadership to shift culture and build more mentally healthy workplaces and systems.
About
Now I'm going to stop talking about myself in third person.
I’m an artist and mental health advocate exploring how creativity can make the unbearable a little more shareable. My work moves between podcasting, performance, and social projects — always grounded in lived experience and a belief that art can be both brave and useful.
From creating award-winning podcasts to shaping national mental health reform, I work at the intersection of storytelling and systems change.
Other Projects
Over the past decade, I’ve explored what happens when creativity and care collide — from participatory art in people’s bedrooms (Bedroom Songs) to performance experiments (That Sexy Show), advocacy campaigns (Medicare Mental Health Reform Campaign), and visual work (Two Years of Crying).
“I was transfixed by her performance”
– Pat McGorry