Step into Thrive.one and help Lizzie bring Hilarapy — a groundbreaking web series where humour meets healing and recovery takes centre stage — to life.
Hilarapy is more than a web series — it is an innovative, culturally significant approach to recovery.
By following real people as they transform lived experience into stand-up comedy, Hilarapy highlights the often-overlooked role of culture in recovery capital — the internal and external resources that help sustain long-term recovery. Through humour, creativity, and community, participants build confidence, connection, and a renewed sense of identity.
Created by therapist, comedian, and recovery advocate Lizzie Allan, Hilarapy is inspired by her widely loved comedy routine. It invites new audiences to engage in conversations about addiction, healing, and belonging, while reimagining recovery as visible, creative, and culturally vibrant.
This series aims to:
Destigmatise addiction and mental health
Show recovery as courageous, messy, and genuinely hopeful
Celebrate community, creativity, and the power of humour as a unifying force
By funding Hilarapy, you're helping us show the world that recovery can be real, relatable, and even joyful.
Lizzie Allan blends the depth of a trained psychotherapist with the daring honesty of a comedian. After surviving addiction, mental health challenges, and psychiatric care, she discovered that humour could unlock healing in ways nothing else could.
With 16 years of sobriety and over a decade of experience merging therapy with comedy, Lizzie created Hilarapy — a method that transforms shame, trauma, and old identities into connection, laughter, and freedom.
These are a few of the brave humans stepping into vulnerability, humour, and healing.
Hilarapy isn’t just entertainment. It offers visibility, validation, and hope for anyone who has struggled with addiction, mental health, shame, or feeling “too broken” to belong.
Too often, recovery stories are framed by tragedy or silence. Hilarapy offers something different — a compassionate, honest lens that shows healing as human, courageous, and joyful.
By backing this series, you help us:
Share real recovery stories with dignity and care
Normalise conversations around addiction and mental health
Model healing rooted in laughter, courage, and connection
Reach people who might not seek help otherwise
Guide viewers to Thrive.one, a place where real support awaits
Bring the Hilarapy method to a global audience
For someone watching, this series may be the first time they feel understood — or realise they’re not alone.
When you join Thrive through this fundraiser, your membership dollars help cover the real costs of creating the Hilarapy web series — from filming and editing to therapeutic facilitation and participant care. At the same time, you step into a living ecosystem of emotional, mental, and spiritual support.
For those whose lives have been affected in any way by substance abuse disorders, your membership not only directly funds the making of the series but also opens access to a variety of unique and vital resources to support their own recovery journey.
With a Thrive membership, you will receive:
Unlimited access to live support sessions, Q&A, and teachings
Lizzie Allan’s weekly Hilarapy healing circle
Access to community healing spaces and live events
A rich Cinematherapy Library of feature films and masterclasses
Early access to Hold On to Your Kids featuring Dr. Gabor Maté and Dr. Gordon Neufeld
If you have any interest or questions on how to support Lizzie’s vision or collaborate on projects, please contact us.
