Rachel Kelly, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/rachelkelly/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:55:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing The Happy Kitchen https://booksbywomen.org/writing-the-happy-kitchen-by-rachel-kelly/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-the-happy-kitchen-by-rachel-kelly/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:40:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18070 Ever since my last major depressive episode just over a decade ago, I’ve sought to embrace a holistic attitude to my own mental health. For me it’s been a case of both ‘push’ and ‘pull’. ‘Push’, in the sense that, like many others, I’ve experienced some of the debilitating side-effects of antidepressant medication. These include […]

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