— “It is okay not to be okay sometimes—but it is never okay to not ask for help, because you are precious beyond compare; you are loved and you are never alone.”
Valeria Teles interviews Danielle Aitken — the author of “THE RIPPLES: What Lies Beyond and Sarah’s Story, life after IVF.A highly experienced nurse and midwife, Danielle Aitken spent twenty years working at the cutting edge of IVF in Australia. Now, a counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist, running a successful private practice, she helps clients move through trauma and crisis. She is passionate about mind body therapy, the principles of neuroplasticity, and helping people discover their true potential.
Danielle is the author of Sarah’s Story, life after IVF, and The Ripples, What lies beyond; books written to tackle serious issues, impacting mental and physical health. Both are fictional, inspirational, narratives about self-discovery, human potential and overcoming adversity; both became No.1 Amazon Bestsellers in their categories, indicating the real need for these important messages, delivered through the power and potential of the written word.
“Suicide often creates a path of devastation so far reaching that it continues on and on, like the ripples created in the mirror-perfect body of water after a single calamitous event disturbs the calm forever.”
The Ripples, is a fictional novel written by Danielle Aitken, which provides a gripping account of one family’s experience of suicide and the damaging, relentless ripples that radiate out in every direction, not only on a family in crisis, but on a whole community and beyond, while also exploring the possibility of an omnipresent love that connects us all.
Thought-provoking and insightful, The Ripples weaves a powerful story of spirituality, love, tragic loss and the amazing resilience we possess, that allows us to bring ourselves back from the depths of despair to carry on living. It powerfully illustrates how nobody is spared from the heartbreak and the “what if” thoughts, feelings, and regrets.
A captivating story that explores many causative factors and highlights what we can do, to create a change in our current culture through the transformational power of love and connection.
Danielle believes that suicide can no longer be considered a taboo subject. Rather she believes that suicide must be spoken about in loud voices, as we as a community attempt to save lives. One death by suicide is too many and at the time of writing The Ripples the World Health Organisation estimated that we are losing 800,000 people a year world–wide to suicide!
The Ripples is an important book to create more conversations about mental health awareness; a story to highlight the resources that are available, and to create conversations to help and heal. Importantly, it is a story to validate those who have experienced this most devastating of human tragedies, and to highlight the resilience and strength required to continue on, when all seems hopelessly lost.
“The Ripples illustrates the importance of teaching our children that it’s ok to not be ok all of the time, as it promotes the idea that it is not only okay to speak about our struggles, It’s essential. We must lose the stigma around mental health issues in-order to save lives.”
To learn more about Danielle Aitken and her work please visit: https://www.danielleaitkenauthor.com.au/
— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.
