I wish to present creative writing workshops using my expertise as a gifted and talented class teacher.
All to spring board empowering discussions on how children can become MORE resilient.
I’m passionate about mental health for children as an author and speaker. I can’t wait to get back into the classroom to share my picture book with kids.
And MOST importantly help children and their families.
Please Stay Tuned… I’ll be announcing the title and the front cover soon.
Please spread the word about this resource for parents, teachers, psychologists, counselors and social workers.
Would you like to READ my empowering picture book for children?
Is there a need for a book helping children and families to cope with their stressful lives?
Richard Hill of MindScience TV probed my mind to find out how parent-teacher bullying led to my mental breakdown, turning into Madness and Mania … and later RECOVERY.
Richard Hill, psychotherapist explains my strange psychotic behaviours with Neuroscience and HOW my brain coped with disintegration and RE-integration.
Check out my introduction…
“Karen Tyrrell (Australia) – Teacher, author, educator and inspiring speaker about her personal, harrowing story of bullying in the workplace and her struggle with mental health -
A battle she has won and written about in TWO books not to be missed …
“What Do We Learn?
* The daunting story of a teacher being bullied by parents at her school.
* How this bullying eventually led to a mental breakdown.
* How Karen dealt with the struggle to Recover and the writing of her memoir.”
HOW do I watch the interView??
Go to the link below, register on the optin form, follow email instructions then click > on the video screen. Please come back here to comment.
[A Teachers tell-all story on my triumph over parent-teacher abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.]
Laughter lightens your burdens, inspires hope, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.
Why you SHOULD Laugh every day…
• Laughter is healing. Laughter improves blood flow, deep breathing and boosts your immunity. Finding humor in the dark times will empower you to find the light.
• Laughing relieves tension. Laughter relaxes the muscles in the body and eases stress, anxiety and fear.
• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, improving your resistance to disease.
• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can relieve pain.
• Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, helping protect you against a heart attack.
• Laughter brings us together. Sharing a good laugh with a friend will bond you. Laughter attracts others who like to laugh. Laughter helps resolve conflict.
GIGGLE STATISTICS ….
Studies show a four-year-old giggles around 300 times a day, and a 40-year-old only laughs four times a day!!!
How to Laugh MORE and Stress LESS…
1. Smile. SMILE a big Cheesy grin. Fake it, till you make it!
2. Loosen up, and let go. Don’t take things too seriously. Make a list of the GOOD things in your life to empower you to think more positively and loosen up.
3. Find funny people. Spend more time with people who make you laugh. Seek out people to “Play”. Playing with animals or children is a great place to start. Take a canine friend to an off-leash park, visit an animal sanctuary, or spend time playing a silly game with kids.
4. Have fun. Watch a funny movie or read a funny book. Go to a comedy show. Tell funny stories and jokes, and ask other people to share funny stories. Do a silly dance
5. Watch Comedy TV before you go to bed. Watch Ellen OR Graham Norton Show. Helps you to sleep longer and deeper.
Thanks for leaving your brilliant comments on ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery giveaway competition.
The standard was so HIGH making my decision difficult.
DRUMROLL…
The winners are…
Signed ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery goes to Sam Eeles
And the eBook ME & HIM goes to Ree Johnson.
For those who didn’t WIN … CONSIDER
ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery
Self-help book to empower you to find Mental Happiness.
5 STAR Reviews from Mental Health CEO’s.
Buy ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery for only $3.99HERE
Read #15 pages of ME & HIM: A Guide to RecoveryHERE
ME & HER: A Memoir of Madness
A Teacher’s triumph over parent-Teacher bullying, PTSD and Bipolar Disorder
Finalist in Mental Health week achievement awards
Buy ME & HER: A Memoir of Madness for only $4.99HERE
Read #20 pages of ME & HER: A Memoir of Madness HERE
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Today Tonight interviewed me as a bullied Australian teacher now mental health advocate for their TV investigation Violence in Schools.
Today Tonight filmed me flicking through my tell-all story Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness, how I was catapulted from abused teacher into the psychiatric system suffering night terrors, mania and PTSD.
Me and Her won finalist in the Mental Health week achievement awards for sharing my recovery.
Today Tonight began with shocking statistics of violent behaviour in schools.
“Principals have handed out more than 180,000 suspensions nationwide in 2011 and 20,000 were for inappropriate physical behaviour …There were 6971 suspensions for violent behaviour in New South Wales, 221 of those involved weapons … Queensland state schools have handed out 1000 suspensions to five-year-old students since 2010.”
Today Tonight introduced me … “School teacher and author Karen Tyrrell was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after being attacked.
“Ms Tyrrell says she doesn’t believe the children were bad, instead she says they were damaged.
“She hopes her books on mental health will help children like the ones who terrorized her.”
Me and Her: A Memoir of Madnessnarrates my journey into and out of abuse and mental illness back to living a happy, healthy life again.
I’m so proud Me and Her won finalist in the Mental Health achievement awards and *4.7 STAR* reviews on Amazon.
Me and Him: A Guide to Recovery empowers parents, teachers and families to cope with bullying and violence, or who are recovering from PTSD, bipolar, anxiety and depression.
One in seven young children will have a mental health problem during their time in primary school and the rates increase to one in four once they enter high school.
I urge parents, teachers and kids to learn resilience skills as outlined in Me and Him.
Me and Him won the support of mental health CEOs and *4.7 STAR* reviews on Amazon.
YAY! My tell-all feature interview goes to air this Monday night!!
Me & Leisa Goddard
Leisa Goddard TV journalist from Channel 7 News interviewed me at my Brisbane home on my dramatic memoir, ME and Her: A Memoir of Madness. She quizzed me on my personal teacher experiences with violent children and abusive parents.
And how bullying triggered my screaming night terrors and psychotic mental illness.
Early that day, the producer rang unexpectedly, requesting my expertise as a senior teacher and mental health advocate.
When the producer said that the TV crew would arrive at my home in four hours-time my hands began to shake.
Could I really say YES to the interview?
I pray: This interview will increase understanding of bullying & mental illness.
I finally agreed. Leisa Goddard and the TV crew squeezed into my tiny home office. She bombarded me with question after question about my experiences outlined in ME and Her: A Memoir of Madness
I paused several times, overwhelmed. I hoped this TV interview will lead to greater understanding of how ordinary teachers and children can be affected by repeated bullying.
Spiritual and financial guru to world leaders and celebrities, Angela Hryniuk invited me along to her workshop “Enlightenment & Money” as a guest.
Angela has worked with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and the United Nations.
Recently she advised Debra Hutton (the face of Myer and Qantas) on how to achieve life balance.
[My story: I recovered from parent-teacher bullying and mental illness, writing Me and Her: A Memoir Of Madness. Now as author-speaker, I help others on their journey to wellness and mental happiness.]
Angela shared her inspirational journey as a recovered alcoholic, led insightful meditations, and shattered my pre-conceived ideas on money, wealth and success. I experienced many ‘aha’ moments, with tears trickling down my cheek as I realized what I needed to do.
I returned home eager to amp up my daily ‘Mindful’ wellness plan…
How to Create Wealth and Happiness
1. Attune yourself to your emotions and your spiritual needs. ASK yourself what you’re really feeling and what you need.
2. Balance your life: calm the mind: change your responses to conflict: create Flow in your life.
3. Follow your heart and that “Still Small Voice Within.”
4. Let your inner guide lead you straight to the right decision! Be calm going into your next business meeting JUST KNOWING and TRUSTING.
5. Attract positive energies and people into your life. Emit positive OPEN vibrations to the world. Get ready to receive success.
Have you ever experienced energy flow and synchronicity in your life?
Do you know how to convert your dreams into success?
Can you be BOTH wealthy and happy at the same time?
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Positive psychology website, Chan6es published a BLOG on ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery.
Q: How did I empower myself to Change?
A: “I was an abused teacher, tormented with night terrors. I escaped to a lonely motel where Police incarcerated me into a psychiatric ward. After my release I wrote Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness, which is about two emerging personas. ME ─ wife, mother, writer and teacher and
HER ─ manic, psychic, healer to the living and telepathic to the dead.
“The sequel, Me and Him: A Guide to Recovery, is a self-help book, revealing shocking new discoveries on how my mental illness adversely affected my husband and Carer, Steve.
“Me and Her is about my experiences into and out of mental illness.
Me and Him is a raw and honest account of how mental illness affects the individual and their family.
It contains a wellness plan to help you to live your happiest, healthiest life in stressful times.
“If I can recover from post-traumatic stress disorder AND bipolar disorder, think of what YOU can change in your life through using my strategies of wellness ” Karen Tyrrell
Writers Drawer website based in Israel requested I share Me and Him: A Guide to Recovery, my self-help memoir of HOPE and empowerment. Writers Drawer presents creative writing tips, book reviews and book promotions.
‘My name’s Karen Tyrrell: survivor of parent-teacher abuse, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. I createdMe and Him: A Guide to Recovery , two books in one…
Part 1: 30 chapters sharing pro-active steps to maintain daily happiness by stressing less, sleeping better, overcoming anxiety, beating depression. AND how to develop your own personal wellness plan.
Part 2: is dramatic memoir revealing shocking disclosures from Steve, the carer’s perspective.
What secrets did Steve finally divulge six years on?
What impact did those revelations have on my marriage AND recovery?
Statistics for mental illness are staggering.
Around half of us will experience a mental illness at some stage of our life…
In these stressful times we live, we ALL need a daily wellness plan to keep ourselves happy, healthy and mentally balanced.
Me and Him will provide you with a pro-active tool kit to live the best life you can.
My Challenge: If I, Karen Tyrrell can recover from long term harassment and bullying, post-traumatic stress disorder AND bipolar disorder …Think of what YOU can achieve in your life!
I urge you to buy ME & HIM for yourself or for someone you love. Click HERE
5% of the sales of ME & HIM will go directly to Black Dog Institute for research into suicide prevention and depression.
I, Karen Tyrrell have come so far from a bullied stressed-out teacher, screaming out with night terrors.
I became manic and psychotic, escaping to a lonely motel. Police discovered me, incarcerating me into a frightening psychiatric ward.
I’m so proud to be a mental health advocate able to help others on their journey to RECOVERY.
How did Living is So BIG kick-start?
Living is So BIG project began after Christopher Agudo tried to commit suicide. His Mum, Illiana and his Dad, Jesus pleaded for the world to offer reasons and inspiration for their son to live.
The Living is So BIG team now goes into schools, universities and businesses teaching life appreciation and suicide prevention. They’re seeking inspirational stories that will motivate others to LIVE a happy, fulfilling life.
LISB published ‘From MADNESS to Recovery’ on their website…Here’s a snippet.
“My name is Karen Tyrrell, Australian survivor of mental illness.
When I was a teacher, parents at my school harassed me every day until I could take no more. I screamed out with night terrors and became Manic. Police incarcerated me into a psychiatric hospital. I wrote ME & HER: A Memoir Of Madness and ME & HIM:A Guide to Recovery, sharing my recovery and wellness tips…”
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How to Prevent Suicide
1. If you’re struggling, feeling desperate, needing someone to talk to, reach out to a friend, contact a counselor, doctor or online help-line straight away. There’s help available 24/7.
2. Watch out for these WARNING signs …
Talking about wanting to die or to kill oneself,
Looking for a way to kill oneself, such as searching online or buying a gun.
Talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live.
Talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain.
Talking about being a burden to others.
Increasing the use of alcohol or drugs.
Acting anxious or agitated; behaving recklessly.
Sleeping too little or too much.
3. Get a diagnosis and treatment for what you’re feeling!!
4. Create a pro-active wellness plan including daily exercise, positive self-talk and a strong support network.
5. Buy a copy ofME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery proudly supporting Black Dog Institute for research into suicide and depression prevention. 5% will go directly to Black Dog Institute. Please SHARE with your friends.
READ #15 pages ME & HIM : A Guide to Recovery here.
WOOHOO! My mental health picture book for KIDS will be launching soon.
On the way to involuntary psychiatric treatment, I shared jokes making police laugh.
will empower you to find the light.
How to Laugh MORE and Stress LESS…
Thanks for leaving your brilliant comments on ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery giveaway competition.
terrors, mania and PTSD. 
Today Tonight introduced me … “School teacher and author 
or who are recovering from PTSD, bipolar, anxiety and depression.
Let me know: Did I do the right thing?
Within 12 hours of attending this workshop, I received an incredible phone call. Someone offered an amazing opportunity to spread News of HOPE via 
Writers Drawer website based in Israel requested I share 
Living is So BIG, an international suicide prevention website published ‘
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