'Defying The Enemy Within' - Joe Williams Tew.

The former NRL player and professional boxer had just attempted suicide. "Joe you're lucky to be alive," his doctor said. "You've got a second chance at life now, what are you going to do with it?" In the years prior, Williams had managed to kick his addictions to illicit drugs and alcohol. But he had fallen into a destructive pattern of prescription drug use, and was struggling with his recently-diagnosed bipolar disorder. Williams says that day in Dubbo was one step in an ongoing journey to self-knowledge and recovery, but it marked a turning point. "It was in that moment, I said to myself … 'I am so thankful to be alive, and every day I get to open my eyes, I'm going to treat that as a gift'," he said....