Turn pain into strength

How to overcome hardship and grow from challenges

Join author and award-winning physiotherapist Anjelo Ratnachandra as he shares best-practice techniques to help you regain control of your life after experiencing adversity.

All of us experience challenges in our lives – from illness/injury and loss of self-confidence to losing a loved one or, experiencing rejection and career issues. By sharing his personal story, Anjelo will explain how establishing a growth mindset and setting meaningful goals can help you overcome adversity and become stronger.

What to expect

In this webinar, Anjelo will share his own story of recovery from hardship. As a victim of crime, he has used his expertise in pain management to aid his recovery and achieve his dream of reaching Everest basecamp – proof that you can also rise above adversity.

Hosted by multi-award-winning health, wellness and recovery provider Vivo by MLC Life Insurance, this session will cover best-practice techniques to recover from pain, suffering and adversity, by explaining:

  • the way our thoughts and our behaviours influence each other
  • the importance of setting meaningful goals
  • how to establish a growth mindset

About our expert


The award-winning Anjelo Ratnachandra is one of the world’s few practitioners to hold a dual qualification in physiotherapy and counselling. Born in Sri Lanka and immigrating to Australia as a child to escape civil war, Anjelo graduated from university with honours and began a career as a physiotherapist, working in Australia and overseas. 

Anjelo founded Beyond Pain in 2008, one of the first private practice chronic pain physiotherapy services in Australia. Beyond Pain has since grown to include people with chronic fatigue and mental illnesses as its clients.

Anjelo has assisted the University of Melbourne and Deakin University (Melbourne) with pain studies and he helps organisations develop wellbeing programs. A highly sought-after keynote speaker and author, Anjelo’s inspirational message, knowledge and skills are helping alleviate suffering all over the world. 

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Getting started with Vivo

Vivo services are available at no additional cost to those insured by MLC Life Insurance. You may also have Vivo available to you if your employer/super fund has a partnership with us*.

Simply get in touch with our team, by emailing support@vivowellbeing.com.au

Upon receiving your email, we will reach out to discuss how we can help you.

*The services that are available for your access depends on and may be limited by arrangements we have with the service providers we have partnered with and/or agreements we have entered into with the owner of the policy (such as the trustee or employer for group insurance policies).

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The Vivo wellness webinars are made available to you by MLC Limited (MLC Life Insurance) ABN 90 000 000 402 AFSL 230694 as part of its Vivo program. Anyone can access these wellness webinars. The wellness webinars do not replace your relationship with and care from your current doctor, other treating health providers and health consultants. The presentations reflect the expertise and opinions of the specialists and professionals. MLC Limited accepts no liability for any information provided in the webinars.