Open Up

Open Up is a mental-health conversation show centred on people who have been changed by pain and are trying to live with more honesty afterward. Its episodes carry a workshop-like intensity, but the style stays loose and conversational. Lockie often begins with warmth, banter, and personal context before asking guests to describe how they see themselves as a man or human being. From there, the show tends to go straight into difficult territory. Trauma, PTSD, shame, grief, addiction, suicidal thoughts, and emotional suppression are treated as lived experiences rather than labels. The language of the show is body-based: nervous systems, breath, anger release, belly breathing, safety, regulation, shadow, integration, and feeling what was once avoided. Men’s vulnerability is a major throughline. So is the challenge of returning from intense work environments, especially FIFO, mining, oil and gas, and offshore life, into households and relationships that require tenderness and communication. Several episodes place healing inside male-dominated spaces where stoicism has been rewarded and emotional honesty can feel unfamiliar. The show also makes room for spirituality, intuition, plant medicine, ceremony, and nature without pretending that one experience solves everything. Its strongest moments come when guests resist tidy transformation stories and describe the ongoing work instead. Alcohol recovery is handled with particular clarity in the conversation with Gibbo, where sobriety is linked to repair, fitness, listening, and service. The Invictus episode brings in breathwork, anger, laughter, grief, and the practice of becoming safer in one’s body. The live workshop on authenticity turns the format into guided reflection, with direct exercises and emotional drop-ins. Open Up is not a polished clinical resource. It is personal, blunt, affectionate, spiritual, and often intense. Its value is in the permission it gives people to say the hard thing, sit with it, and build tools around it. For listeners drawn to recovery stories with heart, edge, and practical emotional language, it offers a grounded kind of vulnerability.