“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else” Iyanla Vanzant. Cecilia Knapp is a writer, …
Lauren Heaver
Lauren Heaver
Lauren's typical bio would read "Just a mental person doing life". Our ideal bio for her would read 'Talented writer and artist compelled to making a change in the way mental health is currently viewed'.
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OK, so I have, on more than one occasion, been sectioned. I have been a mind-traveller. I got that lucky backstage pass to the netherworld society considers, as the ‘psych …
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Mental illness, stretches across all colours, creeds, cultures and beliefs. There is no ‘colour palette’ for mental illness, the mixer that adds colour to the paintings of humanity. I look …
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It is not JUST an apple. Standing there, looking all polished and shiny and attractive and healthy. It was never, just an apple. I knew it looked tasty, and nice …
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Do you remember when we were kids, and used to sit back in summertime, making daisy chains with each other? Laid within a pastoral environment. I remember as a seven …
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Looking through the periscope at mental illness- as in, through an old-fashioned instrument submerged beneath water, to observe from a safe distance, a huge area…using mirrors redirecting light – from …

