The Journeys We Make Through Grief & Illness To Get Back To Life

— Trauma, of any kind, can create bizarre worlds. Worlds that become even stranger when the mind that creates them is ill. It can be hard to find a way through, back to a place where people can reach in and find you. Kathryn's book , The Things We Left Sleeping, is her attempt to explain that journey.

Valeria interviews Kathryn Lund — She is the author of "The Things We Left Sleeping."

Kathryn Lund lives in York in the north of England. Her work is often an exploration of a world experienced through a neurodivergent brain. Her novel, The Things We Left Sleeping, was a Shelf Unbound Indie Top 100 for 2022. She has a book of short stories, The Things We Keep In The Cupboard, which she wrote for her MA in Creative Writing. She was awarded the Blackwell Prize in Creative Writing for her postgraduate work.

Kathryn uses her writing to platform speaking about mental health, chronic illness and living with invisible disability. She is renovating a house which, when it stops looking like a building site, her girlfriend is promised to move in to.

To learn more about Kathryn Lund and her work, please visit: kathrynlundtheauthor.co.uk

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.