Kristen J. LawlerMar 223 minCare-less mental health servicesMy last interaction with the mental health system in South Australia reinforced my view that Emergency Departments are no place for...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 27, 20195 minSunny becomes a MindDog #3I’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...
Kristen J. LawlerApr 5, 20191 minThe long gameThe 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...
Kristen J. LawlerMar 8, 20193 minShe'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...
Kristen J. LawlerMar 3, 201910 minRecovery from mental illness should not be a matter of luckRecovery 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...
Kristen J. LawlerMar 3, 20196 minI'm a rebel without a clueBugga. I’ve just finished putting together an Ikea bookshelf and sitting in front of me is an assembled shelf and the inevitable hand...
Kristen J. LawlerOct 31, 20183 minIf 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...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 30, 20183 minSunny becomes a MindDog #2There 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...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 20, 20185 minSunny 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...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 14, 20184 min#HomesickThis photo sums up something of Eyre Peninsula for me. It’s a place filled with quirky characters, shaped by isolation and sculpted by a...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 14, 20184 minThoughts on 9/11I 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...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 13, 201810 minStanding on the outside looking in The gap between disability employment policy and practice I’ve just...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 13, 20183 minCats and dogs and domestic harmonyIt’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...
Kristen J. LawlerSep 9, 20183 minClosing the gap - it's everybody's businessI 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...