Explore Real Peer Recordings

How lived experience, thoughtful preparation, and resilience-informed training come together to create meaningful connections for your people.

Kindly Human Peer stories are short, real experiences shared by individuals who have lived through common life, work, and wellbeing challenges. These stories help people feel less alone, more grounded, and more confident taking their next step—whatever that may be.

For employers and organizations, Peer Experiences offer a low-barrier, high-trust way to support wellbeing across your population without replacing or duplicating clinical care.

How Peer Content Is Created & Reviewed

Thoughtfully shared. Carefully reviewed. Intentionally human.

Every Peer story on Kindly Human goes through a structured process to ensure it is:

- Authentic – real people sharing real experiences
- Appropriate – focused on reflection and perspective, not instruction
- Safe – reviewed for boundaries, tone, and alignment with platform standards

Peers are guided through how to share their story in a way that is supportive, responsible, and helpful for others—without diagnosing, advising, or reliving trauma.

Preparing Our Peer Listeners — GRIT Training

Resilience-informed preparation for meaningful human connection

All Kindly Human Peer Listeners complete GRIT training, a foundational resilience and stress-education program provided by the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS).

This training ensures Peer Listeners are not only compassionate, but well-prepared to show up responsibly when someone is struggling.

What Peer Listeners Learn Through GRIT

- Gain a foundational understanding of stress, resilience, and common stress responses, including during times of crisis or prolonged strain
- Learn practical tools that help build strength, adaptability, and resilience
- Develop skills to listen and support someone experiencing hardship without overstepping
- Strengthen their own coping skills, self-efficacy, and resilience while supporting others
- Learn how to recognize when someone may need formal mental health care and how to guide them toward appropriate resources
- Receive reminders of community and organizational resources and how to help individuals access them

Real Stories. Real Strength. Real Connection.

Military life brings unique challenges — from deployment and transition to civilian life, to the everyday stresses that come with service. Kindly Human’s Military Peers bring lived experience, resilience-informed preparation, and compassion to every recording, giving your community a way to feel understood and supported without replacing clinical care.

Together, these authentic connections help people feel less alone, more grounded, and better equipped to take their next step.