Life Experiences

Mental Health Month Spotlight: The Compassionate Friends

This week my Mental Health Month focus is on The Compassionate Friends Australia The mission of The Compassionate Friends in Australia is to offer and provide friendship and support to bereaved parents and their families following the death of child at any age and from any cause.

Life Experiences

Mental Health Month Spotlight: PANDA

PANDA provides a vital service across Australia by offering the only specialist national perinatal mental health telephone counselling service, as well as reducing stigma around perinatal anxiety and depression, and providing education services to health professionals and the wider community.

Books By Kate

Mental Health Month Spotlight: COPMI

According to the national initiative COPMI, over one million children in Australia have at least one parent with a mental illness.  These children may face many challenges. A range of factors associated with families where a parent experiences mental illness can impact a child’s development and wellbeing.

Hints and Tips for Writers, Inspiration For Writers, Kate's Yearly Goals

The Last 90 Days

.For a few months now, I've been banging on about 30 and 90 Day Plans, the productivity tool that has helped me write and publish my books and achieve my goals in many areas of my life. In October, not only are we starting a new 90 day period, but the LAST 90 day period for the calendar year.

Books By Kate, Life Experiences

The Wilted Rose Supports Mental Health Month

October is Mental Health Month in Australia. Support for mental health is so very important not only for those experiencing it firsthand, but for their families as well. It is an important cause to me, and why I am so proud that my novel, The Wilted Rose, can continue to spread awareness about this worthy cause more than ten years after its publication.