Create a safe and supportive environment, trying to understand that the sufferer does not want to have the mental illness just as much as you do not want them to have it. Be non-judgemental and listen without prejudice, no matter how difficult the situation. Find...
read moreStrength Through Poetry by Samantha Crilly
Description
A warm and moving collection of nearly 60 poems, many powerfully illustrated by Sarah Lou, about mental, emotional and physical
health that encourage us to stay strong in the face of life’s many challenges.
Samantha Crilly’s first collection of poems – Hope through Poetry – was inspired by her personal experience of mental illness and recovery, and by what she had learned from friends and family along the way. Five years after it was first enthusiastically received, she returns with this new collection that draws on her ongoing recovery together with her work as an actor, script writer and activist raising awareness of mental health struggles. Giving honest and relatable insights into what it means to have a mental illness and what causes and triggers may lie behind it, these insightful poems are here as comforting companions and to promote understanding, acceptance and connection.
