This website has been silent…until now! Click on the link below and you will be able to listen to a 20 minute interview with Kristin Walker, CEO and host of Mental Health News Radio, asking me about my experience of
I’ve recently written to William, Kate, Harry and Meghan…
I thanked them for their efforts to dispel the stigma associated with mental health, and took the opportunity to mention Gaia2020 and the mental health benefits of looking after the planet. I’ll let you know if I get a
Fast Train to Safety
I recently gave a presentation on my experience of mental health and ill-health to a local branch of IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety & Health) Click link here A delightful audience, both warm and inquisitive and accepting – thank you!
World Bipolar Day 2018
Hey it’s World Bipolar Day – apparently the world’s bipolar too! There’s a lot of it about! Lots of info at the Bipolar Organisation I think all we really want is acceptance, the obliteration of stigma, and the understanding that this is
Fast Train Approaching…
Still going strong after all these years… A new job! But the same coat…!! The grand opening & the Armed Forces Covenant… HRH Prince of Wales
The Sustainable Development Global Goals
The UN Goals for Sustainable Development, or Global Goals, were launched at the beginning of 2016. They have been much publicised recently through Project Everyone, devised by the filmmaker Richard Curtis (founder of Comic Relief). To find out more about the
Gaia 2020 – The Pamphlet – For your copy, donate & buy here
You are invited to contribute a donation towards your copy (at Just Giving Gaia2020), (£5 recommended) your donation will go to Friends of the Earth… or, if you prefer, please donate to Tunbridge Wells Mental Health Resource If you would like
National Stress Awareness Day & Thriving at Work
Today, 1st November, amid echoes of Samhain, is National Stress Awareness Day hot on the heels of the excellent report on mental health last week, Thriving at Work a review of mental health and employers! The review sets out six clear standards for
World Mental Health Day – 10th October 2017
Last night I was privileged, as a Business Disability Forum Associate, to share an evening, one of a series, of ‘Courageous Conversations’ at an American bank in London, as part of their Disability Advocacy (& LGBT) Networks. The conversation was
The London Launch of When the Change Came & Gaia 2020
Join us for the launch of When the Change Came & Gaia 2020 on Thursday 16th November, for an 8pm start, at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London. WC2H 9BX Remember this iconic photo of the Earth rising
Speaking Out on Mental Health – 14th September, Nottingham
On Thursday 14th September, I spoke at the IOSH National Safety and Health Conference in Nottingham. The title of the presentation was: Fast Train Approaching…! A personal story of breakdown and recovery Delighted to be in DH Lawrence country, I
Live on Stage at the Komedia Studio Theatre – 4th June 2017
Acute Psychotic Episode III – When the Change Came A brief extract from the beginning of the show… I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder twenty years ago, in 1997. Ten years later my story of breakdown and recovery was