Meet Dr Helen Edwards, Award-winning Australian Author, Speaker & Psychology PhD.
Dr Helen Edwards is an award-winning Australian author and speaker who writes diverse stories of nature, magic and history. Helen has a PhD in Psychology and a long background working in mental health. Her aim is to raise hope through stories.
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Helen offers author talks and workshops in schools, at libraries, festivals and more, across Australia. She has a vast background of different experiences, including founding a charity and running this award-winning organisation for 16 years. She is an advocate for type 1 diabetes, neurodiversity and ensuring all children see themselves in books.
She is an experienced speaker and has presented sessions across a range of audiences, topics and age groups. Helen has an ability to engage children and adults alike with warmth, humour and a passion for nature, history and magic.
If you're looking for a presenter who speaks from the heart, who laughs loud and loves deep, who's passionate about people and planet, and who understands we come in a glorious rainbow of human beings, Helen is your person.
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Helen's Journal
Megan Morton’s School in Adelaide: Instagram, Styling & Photography
Do you remember the feeling of waiting for something when you were little? Like Christmas, or Easter, or your birthday? How little butterflies flapped around inside your tummy for days before, culminating in a swarm as the very night approached and you finally fell asleep, exhausted with all the excitement. The arrival of the…
Four Fast Facts you need to know about the sustainability of Wool
Do you love the feel of snuggling under a woolen blanket? Or slipping into a snuggly jumper? There are so many more uses and varieties of wool than you realise. Wool is pretty much an Australian Icon and we have all grown up with sheep and their fleecy coats being part of our lives…
Time is a bitch & why Christina Perri made me cry
Time is a bitch isn’t she? So sneaky and underhanded, making you think there is so much of her and then changing tack half way and deciding that there isn’t enough of her to go around. When I was out jogging the other day I had one of those feeling memories, you know the ones?…
Our Vintage Home in Daylesford, a house tour
We all love a story book cottage and I am sure you all have dreams about your ideal home. One of mine is a country cottage, complete with a pretty garden and some chickens. You might have seen that we found this on our stay in Daylesford last week. And quite a few of you…
Road trips, Clare Bowditch & The Big Hearted Business (un) conference
Road trips. Don’t they just remind you of a little microcosm of life? Stuck in a car for days on end as you traverse the country, means you experience all the highs, and all the lows, of family life. There is always a settling in period in our car. A time where everyone is getting…
Flourishing & Happiness, Decorating Your Home With Happy
I was feeling tired last night, a little virusey, but also incredibly happy as I munched on a carrot while simultaneously cooking dinner and balancing on a chair looking in the medicine cupboard for some cold and flu Echinacea and Horseradish tablets, basking in the late afternoon Autumn sun shining in through the window, when…
5 Ways Trees Can Grow Community Values
Hoping you are all having a wonderful Easter break and are getting to enjoy one of my favourite things in the whole world – trees. Rachel Reef has been working on the project of promoting the importance of trees for our environment, regardless how urban it may be and is a guest poster today on Recycled…
Letting go of my Black Cat Morris
To me pets are a very important part of home. I think you are a pet person or not. I am in the firmly pet person and mostly, cat person camp. I had to do a very hard thing last week. One of the hardest you can ever do as a pet lover. I had…
Sometimes You Have to Skate Backwards
Did you used to skate? I was a big roller skater for a time and an occasional ice skater when we would visit the “big smoke” from our little country town. I loved the feeling of freedom. It felt just like flying, when skating down the road. Going backwards was one of the best…
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