Today has got me thinking that I have lived a life less ordinary. I was talking to my support worker Sherree and we were talking about my career in mental health and the fact that I had been to Hong Kong for a big international conference early in my career in peer support roles. Sherree thinks I am pretty 😍 amazing to have had that opportunity. I remember speaking 🔊 at that conference twenty years ago telling the world 🌎 that mental health would be viewed very differently thirty years from then. My prediction came true because of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) here in Australia 🇦🇺. Then COVID hit and mental health issues became more experienced and talked about. It became a huge issue. My life is totally different to what it was ten years ago. I certainly don’t regret my career in mental health and I love my current life as a writer. Living alone with Lily, my life is quiet and serene most of the time. I look back on the milestones in my life my career, my marriage etc and I regret nothing I set out to do. It was an amazing opportunity to talk about myself on the world 🌎 stage in Hong Kong and I believe my thoughts and opinions on mental health were heard and taken into account. I sometimes forget these days the impact I had in my career. I think about the breakdown of my marriage, but I don’t think I was a failure because my marriage didn’t work out.
I love my present lifestyle of a writer with a dog 🐕 for inspiration and I feel blessed for the peace in my life I now have. I may not technically be paid to work in mental health anymore but I continue to work on changing the world for those with mental health issues.
Life is all about the journey after all.
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