Today Writing NSW profiled the memoir I wrote for Jeanne Rockey AM, One Life, Two Worlds.
Jeanne is one of the wonderful people who helped launch the Starlight Foundation and Foodbank. Her first husband, George Rockey, set up the transport company, TNT, with Sir Peter Abeles in the 1960s. But George died of cancer when his daughter Caroline was four, so Jeanne wanted to record his story and the story of their life together. This is their story.
Many people living with chronic pain are told ‘it’s all in your head’. But exciting new Australian research shows chronic pain results from a complex interaction between our emotions and the way our central nervous system incorrectly processes pain signals. Read my article about this in Pain News Network. https://bit.ly/3FeC3h7 Looking for a pain medicine […]
Kim Sullivan’s life changed irrevocably one Black Friday in 1998 when she was electrocuted in a swimming pool. It left her with crippling headaches, chronic low back pain and recurrent attacks of shingles. Read my story in Pain News Network about how Kim turned from victim to victor. One of the ways Kim learned to […]
Something common to us all is a dislike of pain. In this article for the Pain News Network, I describe a technique to reduce the fear of pain in people who live with chronic pain. Known as pain desensitisation, it helps to reduce the impact of chronic pain on our life. Pain Desensitization: How to […]
