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Tag Archives: mental-health
The start of a new collection? Guest post: Trish Hurtubise talks mental health…
Introduction Dandelions and Bad Hair Days: Untangling lives affected by depression and anxiety was published on 10th October 2012. Regular readers of my blog will know that many of the pieces in that book started life as guest posts on … Continue reading
Dandelions & Bad Hair Days – how mental health & motherhood woke up the writer in me
In a few months time a book will be published; an anthology of prose and poetry on the experience of mental health issues. It will have my name on the cover and I will have written some of the pieces the book includes. … Continue reading
Posted in Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Mental health, Parenting, Random musings on family life, love the universe and everything
Tagged anxiety, blogging, childhood, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, depression, family, Kids, mental health charities, mental health issues, mental-health, parenting
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Telling ‘Sarah’s Story’ – finding truth in family history
It is some time since I have written on the history of my family, or on history in any sense really. I am deep into the process of finalising a manuscript that will be published in the next few months – … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, History, London, Mental health
Tagged Banstead Mental Hospital, depression, family, Family History, history, London, lunatic asylum, mental health, mental-health
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