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Lived Experience Rules! If You’ve Lived It, You Know It!
I have ‘lived experience’ in a variety of different things. Suffering from things and making it through, doing things for the first time, and thriving with it, living a good life even with bad things.
My list of such lived experience includes these things in random order, as they come to me:
Post Natal Depression
Suicidal thoughts
Dog showing
Dog breeding
Self publishing poetry and prose
Starting and maintaining a successful writing group
Editing a successful town’s newsletter
Successful weight loss
Bringing more exercise into my life
How to have a happy marriage (35 years, expecting a good few more years!)
Birdwatching, with a great bird-count — 45 plus different kinds of birds, just around my place!
Hosting a successful, and ongoing poetry reading (monthly) event
So I know about all of these things, and many, many others. I know a bit about harness racing, from a stablehand/strappers point of view. I’ve been involved in a radio show on Public Radio, as one of the program presenters.
