FAITH, HOPE & LOVE
I don’t know if love makes all things easy, but I do believe that combined with faith and hope, it…
INTO THE LIGHT
I may be living in a minefield and the recovery process feels thick, viscous and horrifyingly distressing, but that unknown…
V FOR VITRIOL
For many decades, I wondered why on earth anybody would, or could, run a blade across their unscarred skin, and…
EMBRACE [REJECT]
Today was a pretty good day all things considered. But tomorrow, I’ll try to eat nothing at all. Because this…
SILENCE
Suicide: It’s a dirty word… People are afraid of it. They don’t want to hear it. Or talk about it.…
NOT YOUR AVERAGE PATIENT
It is not every day you meet a woman with no ears and half a nose. Lucy Henry is not…
TOO GOOD TO EAT
I have been bulimic, on and off, for 30 years – although I developed anorexic behaviours during a breakdown earlier…
REMEMBER
Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. It is seven years since she passed away after a ten-year battle…
TRUTH
Mark Twain is quoted as saying, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please,” later paraphrased…
MAURICE
Maurice is an old man – he will soon turn 89. He has the slow...
LETTING GO
I remember, with absolute clarity, the moment my first baby was placed in my arms. I was lying on the…
CHEER UP, BUTTERCUP
Are you sick to death of hearing about depression? How sad we all are now? It’s an epidemic apparently… I…
LITTLE SISTER
My little sister passed away in July 2012 after a 29 year battle with mental health issues. She was diagnosed…
HIGH NOTES
Throughout Australia, choirs are in abundance, and Tasmania is purported to have the largest number of choral groups per head…
WHO AM I?
sure at many stages we all experience these feelings. When growing from a teenager into adulthood. Or finishing education and…