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ABOUT EVA (Short bio)
Eva Melissa Roshan is a red-headed author, mental health awareness trainer, creative life coach and workshop facilitator.
‘Wearing Red - One Woman’s Journey to Sanity’ is her first published book.
Her life-affirming story reveals how she has overcome childhood sexual abuse, alcohol and debt addiction, divorce, depression and self-abuse. She vividly portrays living with bi-polar mood swings, and how she healed herself by creating a beneficial relationship with her demons.
The book depicts how she found the wisdom and courage to forge a new path of recovery, finding freedom and overcoming shame, reclaiming her sanity in the process.
Her intention is for ‘Wearing Red’ to become a testimony to the power of releasing secrets, speaking out and being heard.
She aims to become an ambassador working with others to change mental health discrimination and help shift attitudes towards sexual abuse.
ABOUT EVA (Longer bio)
Eva Melissa Roshan is a writer, poet and author of her first published book ‘Wearing Red - One Woman’s Journey to Sanity’.
Her life-affirming story reveals how she has overcome childhood sexual abuse, alcohol and debt addiction, divorce, depression and self-abuse. She vividly portrays living with bi-polar mood swings, and how she healed herself by creating a beneficial relationship with her demons.
The book depicts how she found the wisdom and courage to forge a new path of recovery, finding freedom and overcoming shame, reclaiming her sanity in the process.
Her intention is for ‘Wearing Red’ to become a testimony to the power of releasing secrets, speaking out and being heard.
She aims to become an ambassador working with others to change mental health discrimination and help shift attitudes towards sexual abuse. This is why she works as a mental health awareness trainer and mentor, when she isn’t writing.
As a result of her own recovery journey, she has a special interest in the addiction field, having spent three years as Chief Executive of a national therapeutic addiction recovery charity, ARA, based in the South West of England.
Eva then worked for a further two years as European Programme Consultant for Eric Clapton’s Crossroads addiction recovery treatment facility in Antigua. She also ran addiction seminars in schools and companies.
She writes regular blog posts on her website, www.evaroshan.com to offer her readers a kit of self-care tools that assist in maintaining mental health and well-being, as well as managing mood swings.
She is currently writing her second book, working title ‘Staying Afloat’ as a practical resource to support others in maintaining their well-being despite adversity, based on her own personal experience. The book will contain 365 days of reflections, insight and tools on self-care, that have worked for Eva, to help others stay afloat in these ever-changing times.
Her story is an act of hope and if this helps one person find a way through their darkness, then she has achieved her goal.
ABOUT ‘WEARING RED’
‘Wearing Red’ is a powerful, deeply moving and life-affirming story that reveals the devastating effect of childhood trauma on mental health.
The book is about one woman’s quest to discover how to live with debilitating bi-polar mood swings and reclaim her sanity.
In ‘Wearing Red’, Eva Melissa Roshan bears witness to the sexual abuse that happened in her father’s house and how this traumatic experience became the origin of a life living with dizzying mood swings.
Her story is told in fragments of defining moments stitched together into a tapestry that reveals her passage into alcohol and debt addiction, depression and self- abuse, until she found the wisdom, courage and support to create a new path of recovery, finding freedom and overcoming shame.
With an exuberant mix of passion, wry humour and sadness, Eva reveals why she chooses to wear red and how she healed herself by creating a beneficial relationship with her demons.
Eva uses an engaging style of prose and poetry throughout ‘Wearing Red’, which enhances the dramatic interpretation of her life story.
There is a valuable tool kits section, towards the end of the book, that works as a manual of self-care on how to stay well, maintain your mental health and manage mood swings. These are all tools which Eva uses on a daily basis that help her create some level of balance in her life and make healthy choices.
This book is testimony to the power of releasing secrets, speaking out and being heard. A raw, courageous, remarkable and uplifting story that moves through the agonies of mental health challenges to the path of forgiveness, survival and transformation.