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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Mar 22
    • 3 min

    Care-less mental health services

    My last interaction with the mental health system in South Australia reinforced my view that Emergency Departments are no place for...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 27, 2019
    • 5 min

    Sunny becomes a MindDog #3

    I’m sitting at my desk at work, with an empty dog bed next to me. ‘My assistance dog’ has quickly become ‘The assistance dog’, and...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Apr 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    The long game

    The long game she doesn’t care that sleep has been elusive for me or that heart and head are discombobulated because of a man she smiles...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Mar 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    She's leaving home

    I wrote the following piece six years ago when my daughter relocated to Adelaide from Port Lincoln for University. This week, a number of...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Mar 3, 2019
    • 10 min

    Recovery from mental illness should not be a matter of luck

    Recovery from mental illness should not be a matter of luck I pull up in front of my house and turn the engine off. Through tears, I...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Mar 3, 2019
    • 6 min

    I'm a rebel without a clue

    Bugga. I’ve just finished putting together an Ikea bookshelf and sitting in front of me is an assembled shelf and the inevitable hand...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Oct 31, 2018
    • 3 min

    If you can't laugh it's not funny

    I wrote this post about my teenage daughter ten years ago. In the last few weeks, I've started a new job working in a High School, and...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    Sunny becomes a MindDog #2

    There are two vets at the practice I take my dogs to. They’re both wonderful and when I leave the practice, I feel like the luckiest dog...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 5 min

    Sunny becomes a MindDog #1

    “Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain Sunny, you smiled at me and really eased the pain…” Humming this to myself as I walked...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 14, 2018
    • 4 min

    #Homesick

    This photo sums up something of Eyre Peninsula for me. It’s a place filled with quirky characters, shaped by isolation and sculpted by a...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 14, 2018
    • 4 min

    Thoughts on 9/11

    I wrote the piece below at the ten year anniversary of 9/11. Time flies by and although it hardly seems possible, here we are hurtling...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 13, 2018
    • 10 min

    Standing on the outside looking in

    The gap between disability employment policy and practice I’ve just...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    Cats and dogs and domestic harmony

    It’s 6.13 am on a Sunday morning and I’m awake due to a pretty terrible pounding in my temples. That last glass of red wine was a...

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    Kristen J. Lawler
    • Sep 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    Closing the gap - it's everybody's business

    I said a sad final farewell to a friend recently. We started out some years ago as co-workers, but over the years became friends and I’ve...

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