Laura Rose
About
I'm Laura, an author who lives in Hove, England.
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My path to being an author has been rather an unexpected detour in my life, but in a way, was always the intended final destination.
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As a child, I was pretty good at school. I remember being told that I was good at writing, and I had always loved reading (and still do). I decided when I was in junior school that I wanted to write books when I was all grown up. When I started senior school, I was told that I could be a great scientist one day by my favourite teacher, so that started me on a different route entirely. Science could be useful as a career and could lead to many places. Being an author was unrealistic and I couldn't make a living from it (I was told). And so, I was destined to become a Scientist from then on!
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Skip forwards a few decades... I'm a scientist, earning money, doing well in my career. However, I had so many mental health problems and breakdowns and burnouts that something had to change. The pressure of the job was making my life difficult to handle. Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Panic Attacks, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a possibly undiagnosed ADHD brain, it was all a bit of a hard cocktail to swallow. I went on medication and started having therapy which both helped me greatly. I decided that I wanted to do something to help other people with problems like myself, so I decided to train to be a therapist.
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Training complete, I worked as a therapist alongside my Scientist role, but knew I had to make my biggest and final change to really set my health straight. I quit my job as a Scientist. I needed a complete change and a reduction in stress to see if I could get myself feeling good and find out what I really wanted to do. I also stopped working as a therapist, knowing that I still wanted to do something to help people, but not sure exactly how I wanted to do that. I found that writing things down in black and white helped me, it gave me a bit of perspective. I guess it's what some people might call journaling, I just call it getting the stuff out of my head and onto a page.
They say that everyone has a book inside them waiting to get out. It turns out I have quite a few volumes! And I realised it was time to let them out.
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Training as a therapist and having a scientific background led to my fascination with how the mind and brain works when I had my mental health struggles. Now, I'm sharing my personal experiences of mental (and physical) health with you in a raw, honest and (hopefully) funny way.
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I'm excited to create meaningful work that can resonate with you, my reader, and that makes us feel connected.
My Approach
As an author, I like to write in a way that will captivate readers and leave a lasting impression, showing people that they aren't alone in their struggles and that we are all connected somehow. I believe that by sharing my experiences honestly and openly, in a way which is hopefully easy to understand, people can see that there is no shame in having mental or physical health difficulties. I hate that society seems to separate the two, as though the head-part of the body is separate from physical health. All in all, health is health. I don't think people would feel shame talking about a broken arm or having diabetes, and there shouldn't be shame in talking about depression or anxiety or the such.
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I draw on my own experiences from struggling with my health, as well as the understanding I have gained from my scientific and therapeutic training, to craft my books. I keep my readers in mind, remembering how much I struggled to read long books with tiny writing when I was depressed, and deliberately choose to keep my books at a more manageable length for that type of mindset. Also, larger font and illustrations help to keep things lighter!
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My writing style is kind of like you're reading me right now. I prefer to think of us as having a chat over a cup of tea, nice and informal. And I do love a cup of tea, especially Earl Grey. Oh, and a biscuit if one happens to be going, thank you!
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If you want to find out more about me, I have an Instagram account which you can follow me on, just search for @LauraRoseAuthor
