Shark attack survivor credits thoughts of daughter with will to survive

On a June afternoon at Sydney's Coogee Beach, a schoolteacher named Leah Stewart entered the water and encountered something ancient and indifferent — a great white shark that took her arm and nearly took her life. She survived, she says, not through instinct alone but through love: the image of her young daughter growing up without a mother became the force that held her to the world. Now, sustained by an outpouring of community generosity and her own fierce determination, Stewart is rebuilding — a reminder that the will to remain present for those we love can be among the most powerful force