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The Great Australian Bookshop Tour – Quarter time: The Bookshop Chains

One of the reasons we are trying to visit every bookshop in Australia is to say thank you to the Australian independent booksellers that fell in love with The Rosie Project and hand sold it to enough people that it … Continue reading

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Great Australian Bookshop Tour

We’ve been known to have some crazy ideas; no one wants to write or publish my book? No porblems…let’s make it in to a movie (with no experience whatsoever at the time). Walk the Camino> Sure but why start in … Continue reading

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So Much to Read and So Much to Write

I consider myself very lucky. I cancelled the subscription on my last Meditation App because I got tired of the reminders to hold onto the moment and be grateful. I do, I truly do. All I need now though is … Continue reading

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Behind the mother façade: when it’s not only perinatal anxiety and depression

Even before Amy* delivered her much-wanted, planned, second child, Elissa, she was feeling like she was losing a bit of herself every day. Her two year old, Jed, was exhausting; and no one seemed to be hearing  her concern that … Continue reading

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In the Mind of Mothers

Warning: this may trigger readers who are struggling with attachment trauma. For my entire professional life as a psychiatrist, I have been in the minds of mothers—or at least tried to be—when things have not gone smoothly. As a perinatal … Continue reading

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Female Friendships

One of the themes that emerged from my latest book with partner Graeme Simsion, Two Steps Onward was that of the power of female friendships. Booktopia invited me to write a blog on it – check it out

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Animals Make Us Human

Leah Kaminsky and Meg Keneally have put together short stories bout Australian animals to raise money for them in the light of the bushfires devastating their habitat. Consider buying loads for Christmas presents! Buy here The wonderful birds of Lancefield … Continue reading

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Lessons from Lockdown

I saved this blog before it was written as april2020; when I then opened the document I seriously considered posting it blank. Well, not that seriously, but I did think for a moment would a blank page be representative? Representative … Continue reading

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Becoming a mother in the time of corona

I normally keep these posts light and without my “medical” hat on – but given the times, this one is an exception! I’m back at work with women with perinatal depression and anxiety – wherever possible seeing people on Skype, … Continue reading

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Why Walk: The Seven Times Two Reasons to Have a Walking Vacation

Or: How to justify a vacation in Italy in the middle of a coronavirus epidemic   Disclosure here; there really wasn’t an outbreak when we left to Italy in February, despite what our travel insurance says (we have another trip … Continue reading

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