Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Migraine Management: How to Reduce Anxiety, Manage Pain and Prevent Attacks is my first book. I have been doing research and writing articles about migraines on my website since 2009. I’ve had them myself for over twenty years. Very chronic, very severe and painful for 20 days each month. I’d never had a month off until recently.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Migraine Management: How to Reduce Anxiety, Manage Pain and Prevent Attacks is the name of my latest book. It was inspired by an overwhelming desire to help more migraine sufferers, rather than one at a time as in my counselling practice. So I surveyed my online followers about what they most wanted help with. Pain management and stress management were the top two. So I wrote the migraine pain management course and this ebook. It wasn’t really as planned out as that, but it did all eventuate.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I binge write!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Arthur C. Clarke, Ayn Rand, Eckhart Tolle, Louise Hay, Richard Gerber, Marianne Williamson. Just to name a few.
What are you working on now?
Marketing and promoting my ebook and course. Now that’s a whole new world!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
So far …. awesomegang! I’m just beginning, so I’ll have to keep you posted.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t wait too long to write your book. It’s given me more joy than anything I’ve done so far.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Hmmm…. that’s a big question. I can tell you the best question I was ever asked. It was by my boyfriend (now husband) when I was in complete anguish over taking yet another tablet for my migraine. Do you want to hear it?
It was “is it ever just a headache?”
I had to reply, “no” and ever since then, I just take my abortives (with no pressure or stress). I think that saved me 6 years of needless suffering. Maybe more!
What are you reading now?
Ok, so maybe I need to find a more fun or romantic book – but right now I am reading Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m looking into migraines causing PTSD and what therapies might help that. And I’d love to do something more positive like a lovely inspiring migraine journal.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
#1 Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
And then maybe: Illuminata by Marianne Williamson, A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber, M.D. and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, et al.
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