Gayle Wilson

Gayle Wilson is an Australian author and wellbeing coach who writes about the thing families are least allowed to say out loud: “We are sold this notion that family is everything — the be-all and end-all. But what if your family is actually a little bit f*cked up?” Her raw memoir Where the Waves Break: How I Found Myself After Tragedy (2025) walks readers through the darkest corners of family disconnect and dysfunction — undiagnosed mental illness, a sibling’s addiction, and the life-altering tragedy they led to — and then, warts and all, through the quiet of grief into compassion, forgiveness, and the slow rebuilding of herself and her childhood family.

A mum of three with a self-confessed wicked sense of humour and a huge, ambitious heart, Gayle now helps others do what she did: heal themselves and reconnect their families for better and brighter times. Through her coaching programs and workplace wellbeing sessions, she brings the memoir’s hard-earned medicine — that you are not alone in the complexities of family, and that it’s still possible to choose life after the storm — to readers and audiences who need to feel seen before they can begin.