![]() ![]() Karen's latest children's series deals very imaginatively with the theme of bullying. She has also written several children's books that deal with bullying and that help to empower kids to live strong through humour and self-belief. The following year, she published Me and Him: A Guide to Recovery, with 30 steps to recovery and well-being. She wrote and published her first book, Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness, in 2012. Karen, however, has used creative writing as a form of therapy, to help her mental health recovery and to tackle the very harmful problem that is bullying. ![]() " I became stressed, anxious and mentally ill," she told me. Then many years later, when Karen was a primary school teacher and after having taught happily for twenty years, the parent of one of her students bullied her so badly that she had a major break down. ![]() When she was in Year 6, a 'frenemy' bullied her, taking away her self-confidence. ![]()
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