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Mental Health - A New Beginning.
Recently I have been in contact with a lady called Kate
Mottram. After the report I did a little
while back about mental health services in the UK, I was very interested in the
book that she is currently writing called Mend the Gap; Katie calls this a
memoir with a difference that documents her transformative journey through deep
despair to discovering her soul purpose!
She asks. Have you ever been too afraid to say how you REALLY feel
for fear of being thought of as mad? Most of us have. Most of us are forced to
be untrue to ourselves, by a system that is there to help us be less anxious
which actually makes us more anxious, - now THAT is madness!
I asked Katie what 'Mend the Gap' was all about?
She told me that it was a book with a purpose – a raw, authentic, autobiographical account of breakdown to
breakthrough; how she changed from suicidal to eternal optimist in what was an
extraordinary transformation. 'Mend the Gap' provides hope to those whose hope
may have been negatively impacted by the current mental health system. One quote that struck a chord with me was:
"You are having what could be diagnosed as an insane
experience, but you know, deep down, that it’s actually more real than the
façade you are trying to maintain to ‘fit in’ with what society suggests is
normal. Are you really the only one, and can you continue to live a lie?"
Mend the Gap documents Katie’s personal journey from struggling to
hide deep emotional distress, to being unable to hide it any longer, through to
the realisation that hiding it had been the actual madness all along!
What do you do when a belief you’ve held for years and on which
you’ve built your identity is shattered in an instant? Shattered irreparably by
an experience so profound that it resolves all of your insecurities and
outstanding questions about life, and yet threatens that safe identity? Do you
risk your professional security and being labelled as mad? What if you follow
the truth in your soul but in doing so, know that this will challenge you to
question the very foundations of psychiatric practice. In this topsy turvy
world, will you be brave enough to give your heart a voice?
Katie quotes Martin Luther King
Jnr
Katie says I too am 38 years old, and I am afraid about speaking
my truth, but I am more afraid of the consequences of not speaking it at all.
In ‘Mend the Gap’, I explain through taking you through the dark depths of my
internal battle, the secrets, which should not be secret at all, to self-
acceptance, creating abundance and becoming the shining soul that we all know
deep down that we truly are - if only we dare to believe!
I am sure like me you will be very eager to know more about this
interesting book and I will be bringing you more information in the weeks to
come.
Amanda Thomas
UK Health Radio Medical News Update
Kindly sponsored by 1-stop-health-shop.com
Katie Mottram's Kick Start page.
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