What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone
What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone – Audio and Video including every episode of Held in Mind: A Memoir
Episode Twenty Two: Drinking in Dublin
Preview
0:00
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:47
-2:47

Episode Twenty Two: Drinking in Dublin

Helen is changed by drinking, as is Lindsay's dad during a day trip to Dublin in the autumn of 2001

“This is stunning. Memoir is such a fascinating genre isn’t it? And you write it brilliantly.”

Clover Stroud – author of four memoirs including the forthcoming The Giant on the Skyline on Held in Mind

Starting from the beginning? Go here…

Episode 22

Lochgreen, 29th March 1946

Helen’s longing for Tom is getting in the way of everyday life at Lochgreen, while he’s adjusting to a busier-than-normal time aboard the ship.

Helen, Troon, late 1940s

21st August 2020

A technical glitch means Lindsay’s video therapy session moves back to the phone. It’s where she feel more comfortable. More connected to her therapist, somehow, and her own emotions.

Summer 2001

Lindsay remembers back to the weeks before she left home for university. Is reminded of a particularly fraught stay with her dad in Wales and a daytrip they took to Dublin.

My 18th birthday, May 2001

Links for Members to access tomorrow’s Writing for Better Mental and Physical Health Session (1 of 4) and the Expert Session on audio I’m co-hosting with

below…

This post is for paid subscribers

What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone
What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone – Audio and Video including every episode of Held in Mind: A Memoir
Here you'll find every episode of my memoir, Held in Mind. You'll also find video interviews with fellow creative caregivers, which forms The Cost of Caring Series, and occasional video and audio on the big (and small) stuff of midlife.
Looking JUST for Held in Mind? Head to the dedicated post on my Homepage.