In the realm of disability support, understanding mental health is crucial. Having worked with a number of NDIS providers I can offer...

So I've been using this as my tag line on insta for a while now, and thought I should try to use it one of my poems. I'm not 100% happy...

This one is about my favourite 6 men at the bars I frequented. They were there every time, to keep me company and share the journey to...

Again this one is about overcoming adversity, whether that be a mental illness, or anything else. It does not mattter what it is! If you...

We never quite know what is really going on in someone's life until we ask the (sometimes) difficult question, "Are you ok?" And...

Continuing the theme of "it's just a conversation" started in the previous post, here is the one specifically about that. No more to be...

While teaching my classes about Mental Health First Aid, I try to emphasise that "it's just a conversation that shows you care." This is...

Another attempt at describing the being chased by "The Black Dog" and the Demons that reside in our heads. It was around this time that I...

These are about a Veteran. Someone I know well, and to be frank this story could easily be mine. When I sat down and went through the...

Winston Churchill was the first person to refer to depression as "The Black Dog" and thus that is how Black Dog Rides mascot, Winston got...

One of the mental illnesses I was diagnosed with was Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Now everyone experiences anxiety from time to time,...

I believe we all have a fire inside us, something that drives us to do whatever it is we do. Some people let the rain drops of life...

Written on a day when I was tired. Emotionally, physically, mentally. I was done for the day. And then I thought, "I need to share this."...

Music has always been a big part of my life. As a child I was forced to learn to play the keys, but didn't really commit to it as I wish...

Mental health, domestic abuse, and childhood trauma are all closely linked. The people caught up in darkness of any abusive situation...

Inspired by a poem written by a young lady that my partner worked with. She wrote this awesome poem about losing her brother to suicide....

I started thinking that I needed to write more about what I am passionate about, and that I needed to have content that was more...

This is probably the poem I like the most out of all of them. (so far) This was written at a time when there was a lot arguing between...

So like many of my generation, I grew up in a fairly racist community. It's not that we were practicing white supremacists, we were just...

So coming to the conclusion that I can't be a rockstar, and my life will ultimately be a lot more mundane, AND this is the biggie - the...