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Telling Tales

  • Mental
    • Anxiety
      Generalised anxiety disorder can be debilitating. Or not there at all. You just never know.
    • Depression
      I lived with low levels of depression most of my life. Which then exploded into full blown major depressive disorder. Here I explore the results.
    • Disordered Eating
      Five decades of disordered eating – full force bulimia nervosa, anorexic tendencies and binge eating episodes. I’ve dipped my fingers in all the pies.
    • Self Harm
      Rarely discussed in polite conversation, self harm is an unfortunate reality for many people. This is my personal experience of sinking to some dark depths.
    • Suicide
      Seven little letters nobody wants to talk about. A conversation we all need to have. My experiences with a lifetime of chronic suicidal ideation.
    • Crisis & Support
    • Recovery
      I have doggedly sought recovery for a long time. These are my tales of searching for hope and desperately trying to recover – again and again and again.
      • Inpatient
        Going to hospital for physical maladies always seems a no-brainer, yet making the decision for a severe psychiatric affliction is paralysing. The stigma. The shame. But man – it was worth it.
      • The Mighty
        My responses to a variety of challenges from The Mighty – a well known and well respected mental health advocacy platform.
  • Physical
    • Fatigue
    • Migraine
      I’ve had migraines my entire life. They’re usually well controlled these days, but occasionally they flare up and drive me to the brink of insanity.
    • Restless Legs Syndrome
      Restless Legs Syndrome may sound benign and irritating, but I have it bad. It won’t kill me but there are days I wish it would. This is my experience of RLS.
  • Spiritual
    • Hope
      Without hope, there’s no recovery. It’s the foundation upon which recovery is built. It can feel like a shaky bowl of warm jelly slipping through your fingers.
    • Soul Searching
      After having a nervous breakdown, losing my identity, and a stereotypical midlife crisis, these are my soul searching stories for the woman I was and want to be.
    • The People You Meet
      People have made me and people have broken me. Everyone has a story to tell and if I had the time, I’d tell everyone’s story. Here I share a sample or two.
    • The Places You Go
      We’re shaped as much by the places we’ve been as the people we’ve seen. I share the highs and lows of all those places and the connections we make there.
  • Blog
    • Guest Blogger
    • Words of Wisdom
    • Writing
      Writing has slowly become my strongest means of expressing myself. When the spoken word fails me, the written word speaks for me. Here I can be myself.
      • Poetry
        I’m not a poet. But every now and then I feel an intense need for poetic expression. I share them with you here.
      • Published Articles
        • 8 Tips
        • Lifetime of Struggle
        • True Warrior
        • Catharsis of Writing
        • Readers Don’t Want
        • Never Give Up
        • What this picture says
        • Heart Open Please Enter
        • Household Guide
        • How You Can Help
        • High Note
        • Research into Dementia
        • Collaboration in Vietnam
        • Building Nears Completion
  • All About Me
    • Who Am I?
    • Connections
      Without connections to other humans, we wither and die. Recovery requires exploring connections to the physical world, to our relationships, and to ourselves.
    • Music
      Music shaped my world since I was in utero. I’m no longer a professional flautist or teacher, but music will always be a core part of my soul. I am a musician.

Category: Music

Music shaped my world since I was in utero. I’m no longer a professional flautist or teacher, but music will always be a core part of my soul. I am a musician.

High Notes

Throughout Australia, choirs are in abundance, and Tasmania is purported to have the largest number of choral groups per head of population. So what makes choral singing so popular and why do we do it? Read More

AuthorSimonePosted on27 Oct 201615 Jan 2019CategoriesMusic, WritingTagschoirs, music, singing, tasmania, writing1 Comment

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