#MHAW2020
This Mental Health Awareness Week, the theme is kindness. We've collated some of our titles that help you practice kindness to yourself and to others around.
Tara J. Lal Picks on Mental Health
Standing on My Brother’s Shoulders' author Tara J. Lal is a female firefighter in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, and a physiotherapist. Tara’s childhood was scarred by the debilitating mental illness of her father and by her mother’s death from cancer when she was thirteen. Caught up in…
Suicide: The Ultimate Rejection of Love
by Tara J. LAl My brother Adam took his own life shortly after his twentieth birthday and I was left, in my eyes, rejected and alone. He had jumped from his study window at Oxford University and was placed on life support in intensive care…
Tara J. Lal and the Challenges of Writing ‘Standing on My Brother’s Shoulders’
We had a chat with Tara J. Lal at the launch of her book Standing on my Brother's Shoulders, recently out in paperback. Tara is a female firefighter in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Born and bred in London, she holds two university degrees and is a practising…