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BRISBANE Book Launch ME & HIM

Due to popular demand, I’m announcing my BRISBANE book launch for ME & HIM: a Guide to Recovery for my Brisbane friends.

ME & HIM reveals new shock discoveries and insights into my first memoir, ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, a teacher’s recovery from parent bullying and mental illness.

Who’s HIM in the […]

How I Recovered from Mental Illness

Director of *My Health Career* website, Amanda Griffiths requested I write a guest blog disclosing how I overcame long term parent-teacher harassment, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder. Amanda wanted a real-life perspective to inspire students considering a career in health and psychology.

How did I recover from mental illness when so many are still […]

ME & HIM: Houston: We have a Book Cover!

Drum roll please!

I, Karen Tyrrell am launching ME & HIM’s brand new book cover today.

‘ME & HIM: A Guide to Recovery reveals new insights into my recovery from parent-teacher harassment and mental illness. In my self-help memoir, I share practical mental wellness advice: de-mystifies meditation, addresses sleep problems and explains how to beat […]

How to be Stress FREE over Christmas

Are you Frantically rushing round preparing for Christmas?

Frazzled by Christmas shopping, heavy traffic and parking? Feverishly attending and organizing Christmas celebrations? … Think again. STOP pressuring yourself!

Christmas is a time of peace and relaxation. And most importantly a time to nurture yourself.

For those managing mental illness like Me, Christmas can trigger stress, […]

How to Write with Passion

I’m Guest Blogging from war-torn Israel!

Australian writer Beryl Belsky, now resident of Tel Aviv, requested I guest blog a motivational piece for her ‘The Writers Drawer’ website http://www.thewritersdrawer.net/index.html . Something that could give her Readers HOPE.

I blogged about my dual passions: mental health and writing and what drives me every day!

Beryl contacted […]

Opening page: ME & HIM: a Guide to Recovery

With much angst, I’m launching the opening page to

ME & HIM: a Guide to Recovery, companion sequel to

ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness.

(READ First #20 pages here).

ME & HIM reveals shattering NEW revelations in the saga of student and parent abuse upon me, teacher Karen Tyrrell, my incarceration […]

Interview: ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness

WOOHOO! I’m Guest Blogging from Quebec, Canada over at Lakefront Muse Blog Spot. Mary Metcalfe, fiction author and editor interviewed me about my traumatic journey and recovery with Bipolar Disorder. And why I wrote my confronting story, ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness.

How did Mary Metcalfe discover ME & HER: a Memoir of […]

ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, Celebrating REVIEWS

I’m celebrating!!

I googled ME & HER: a Memoir Of Madness, a teacher’s gutsy story of parent harassment, mental breakdown, mental illness and recovery …

To see what Reviews would surface on my personal memoir. SQUEE! To my delight I discovered TWO professional reviewers who are spreading the positive message of HOPE with ME & […]

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 […]