Join award-winning journalist and author Zoe Simmons as she talks about advocacy, self-care and mental health recovery through words. As a disabled woman living with mental illness and chronic pain, Zoe knows how meaningful and powerful it can be to share your voice with the world. In this session, you'll learn how to use your lived experience to make a difference, and how creativity can have huge positive impacts on your mental health.

This includes:

How you can share your story

Writing tips, and how to keep your words engaging

The benefits of creativity on your mental health

Self-care throughout the storytelling process

You can find more about Zoe on her website here. You can also follow her on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for more.

Zoe Simmons writes to make a difference in the world. As an experienced journalist who's been published hundreds of times around the globe, Zoe uses the raw power of storytelling to capture hearts and minds, helping businesses small and large to find their perfect words. When not running her copywriting and editing business or writing articles, Zoe can be found writing poems and working on her first book about her hometown's survival in the Black Summer bushfires.