BOOKED Bailey Beats the Blah Storytelling for Kids

Join in Outrageous FUN…

And meet children’s author -teacher, Karen Tyrrell (me) as I re-enact my empowering picture book, Bailey Beats the BLAH.

Bailey Beats the Blah boosts self-esteem, emotional awareness and coping skills to overcome anxiety (worry thoughts) and depression (sad days) …

and How to cope with change!

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My Mental Health picture book COVER has arrived!!

SQUEE! I’ve given Birth to a brand new Picture Book baby! My mental health picture book for KIDS is close to my heart . I’m so excited I could burst!

After months of working with an illustrator and a cover designer, the final COVER arrived in my INBOX today.

My fingers trembled as I opened […]

ME & HER: A Memoir of Madness TV Interview

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 […]

Radio Show ME & HER A Memoir of Madness

Radio presenter and relationship expert , Sally Chester-Law will interview me, Karen Tyrrell, on the story behind my personal memoir, ME & HER: A Memoir of Madness on her Sunday night program.

She’ll focus on my experiences with long-term workplace harassment leading to my decline and disintegration into mental illness… and HOW I recovered.

ME […]

Truth behind ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness

Melissa Wray, author of young adult novel Destiny Road interviewed me, Karen Tyrrell on the TRUTH behind ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness.

Melissa dared me to reveal the teacher pressures and passions compelling me to write ME & HER my memoir of RECOVERY.

Melissa wanted to reach the CORE of ME & HER: […]

Magazine Published article featuring ME & HER

Her Canberra magazine published an article featuring me: Karen Tyrrell and my recovery story ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness. She shared my ten top tools for eliminating STRESS.

Her Canberra journalist, Belladonna Took wrote a powerful article “Open Your Mind – Mental Health Week 2012” with staggering statistics on mental illness.

“One in […]

How to STOP the Stigma of Mental Illness

I’m fighting against the STIGMA of mental illness.

I’m opposing discrimination against people with mental illness in the workplace and in the community.

I’m battling against negative labels ‘MAD, NUTTER, CRAZY’ and stereotypes portrayed in the media … in movies, TV, newspapers and magazines.

My Message of HOPE:

I’m shouting to the world … You […]

SECRETS: How to Face your Fears

Today I finally faced my greatest fear. Typing up *THAT* chapter, the most grueling section of my latest mental health recovery memoir, ME & HIM: a Guide to Recovery. The chapter that I had avoided for months. I would rather write, edit, and redraft any chapter in my memoir, avoiding what I really needed to […]

How to Develop Resilience Skills & Keep Mentally Strong

WOOHOO! Last Friday I delivered my first Resilience Training Workshop to a corporate business team, part of a Workplace Health and Safety program … What synchronicity!

Manager, Anila Fredricks who had read ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, invited me to deliver a motivational talk about my RECOVERY from mental illness, to her […]

How Did I RECOVER from Mental Illness?

Today my mental illness Recovery story was published on CHAN6ES Website. Xs Tyne, co-director of CHAN6ES revealed my gutsy exposé, ME and HER: A Memoir Of Madness and how I changed from HER back into ME.

Launching Karen’s STORY…

“When I was a primary school teacher, parents at my school repeatedly harassed me to […]