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  • Published: 3 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761354724
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Jelena Dokic
  • RRP: $37.99

Live Free

Let go of perfection and shame, embrace vulnerability and build lasting self-worth




Stop surviving, start living free.

'My mission is to clear the path ahead just a little, so that you won't have to endure it alone. I want you to be free to live the life you deserve.'

Former world No. 4 tennis player, bestselling author, two-time Logie Award winner, commentator, presenter and motivational speaker Jelena Dokic shares the insights and tools that helped her reclaim her voice and her life – and shows you how you might be able to do the same.

No matter where this book finds you – on your darkest day or in the messy midst of healing – know that you are not alone. If you feel stuck, lost, overwhelmed or held back by your past and your life, there can be a way forward. Jelena’s approach is built on four essential pillars:

- Finding self-worth
- Vulnerability as a superpower
- Shattering the myth of perfection
- Finding peace and healing

Grounded in lived experience, she draws on her journey through hardship in her early life, adversity in her tennis career and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, which led to trauma and mental health challenges. She also reflects on dealing with doubters and shaming.

Through honest guidance, personal lessons, and practical tools and exercises, Live Free helps you to break old patterns and move forward with confidence. To lead with self-belief. To find strength in vulnerability. To let go of perfection and build a sense of self-worth so you can live free from shame.

  • Published: 3 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761354724
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Jelena Dokic
  • RRP: $37.99

About the authors

Jelena Dokic

Jelena Dokic, an Australian former world number 4 tennis player, TEDx presenter and speaker, commentator, 2-time bestselling author and 2-time Logie winner. She is also the subject of a documentary based on her first bestselling book, Unbreakable. Her awe-inspiring journey on the court includes making the semifinals of Wimbledon at 17 years of age and being a doubles Grand Slam finalist at 18. Yet, beyond the spotlight, she endured adversity, including abuse from her father for 15 years. This trauma shadowed her success, affecting her mental health. At 22, she faced a breaking point but chose resilience. Dokic emerged as a survivor, determined not just to survive but to thrive. Her story, shared in bestselling books, "Unbreakable" and "Fearless", showcases her journey from victim, survivor to thriver. Her raw honesty will leave you in awe. Her ability to free herself from the grips of domestic violence, trauma, mental health struggles and darkness will astonish you. Most of all, Jelena's will to survive and now help others by using her voice and sharing her story will inspire you. She embodies hope, strength, resilience and courage and her will to live and turn her pain into power will leave any audience mesmerised.

Hannah Vanderheide

Hannah Vanderheide is a journalist who came to health-writing through her own lived experience. An eating disorder survivor and rare disease advocate, she writes about health, identity and resilience with equal parts curiosity, compassion and scepticism for wellness hype. Her bylines appear across The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Women's Weekly, Marie Claire, Body+Soul, Mamamia, ABC Lifestyle, Escape, Harper's Bazaar, Fashion Journal and the Herald Sun, with her features regularly landing among the mastheads' most-read lifestyle stories.

Praise for Live Free

A remarkable book. It is so warm and approachable and I had a smile on my face much of the time I was reading it. A fantastic piece of work.

Janelle Booker, Clinical and Counselling Psychologist