A Very Long Way - Fryers, Naomi
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Naomi was born a bold and free spirit who loved to entertain people with stories. From knocking about the outskirts of Melbourne's northern suburbs until the late 1990s to finding herself enrolled at a socially uncomfortable elite private girls' college, she developed some increasingly problematic coping strategies for life's challenges. Determined to outrun these issues, her dalliance as country waitress concluded with further heartbreak. Then, while living it up on Melbourne's iconic Chapel Street and editing her university newspaper, her university degree concluded but her buried…mehr

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Naomi was born a bold and free spirit who loved to entertain people with stories. From knocking about the outskirts of Melbourne's northern suburbs until the late 1990s to finding herself enrolled at a socially uncomfortable elite private girls' college, she developed some increasingly problematic coping strategies for life's challenges. Determined to outrun these issues, her dalliance as country waitress concluded with further heartbreak. Then, while living it up on Melbourne's iconic Chapel Street and editing her university newspaper, her university degree concluded but her buried accumulative volatility did not. Simmering with increasing complexity, her challenges eventually culminated in Naomi's dramatic nervous breakdown. Her rock bottom climaxed with her riding in the back of a divisional van and being locked up in a psychiatric ward. Her ongoing confusion and indirection, coupled with suppressed trauma, eventually almost costing her life. In the decade subsequent, however, she learned to embrace a comeback journey that involved personal development, advocacy and ultimately rediscovering her bold and free-spirited inner self. Far richer for the diverse lived experience, this book reinforces the fact that with hope, grit and determination, the human spirit can indeed take us A Very Long Way.
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Naomi Fryers has been expressing herselfthrough storytelling and writing for decades.Her words have been published in many high profile celebrated international publications includingHuffington Post, Yahoo Lifestyle!, Medium and alsoin Elephant Journal, where she graduated from thewriting academy. By virtue of lived experience, sheis also a mental health recovery expert, passionateabout utilising words and communication for healing, creating words that are both cathartic and ofbenefit to others, and championing diverse voicesin the publishing space.She is a former editor of US-based, social justicepublication, The Good Men Project. A testament toher 'well, I could give it a go' attitude she successfullynavigated that post, through editing, layout and publishing articles for huge international distributionwhile struggling with severe postnatal depression.At the time she worked off an old two-hundred-dollar HP laptop with sketchy wi-fi piggybacked bytethering from an old iPhone. While she doesn't recommend this method to others, she ultimately feels 112Naomi Fryersit added to the tapestry of what was an enrichingexperience.While obtaining her Arts degree at MonashUniversity, she also served as editor-elect for theillustrious student newspaper Lot's Wife. DuringMelbourne's COVID-19 lockdown, she completed agovernment-supported internship with IndependentAustralia that focused on the experiences of diverseand vulnerable communities.Naomi's own lived experience of overcoming mental health struggles has given her a passion for mentalhealth advocacy and suicide prevention. As such, sheis delighted to be donating half the proceeds of salesfrom the aptly named title A Very Long Way to BlackDog Institute.Naomi's story personifies human struggles. She ishopeful that her narrative and work will contributeto public discourse, candid discussion on mental health, the dire systemic changes required toapproach holistic mental health and vital work onsuicide prevention. So despite having come such AVERY Long Way, she is confident her work will eventually help to progressively change the world andthis book is just beginning.