About Lindy

I am a freelance writer, accredited life story writer, communications specialist, ghostwriter, writing coach and equine/arts therapist located in the Yarra Valley. My writing life creatively brings together her greatest loves and is inspired by the search for meaning and the desire to ‘elevate the feminine’. 

I am an experienced biographer and memoirist who relishes bringing people’s stories to the page.

I am the author of From This Place – Stories of Inspiring Women Artists of the Upper Yarra Valley (with Angela Rivas), biography Visionary Man, Visionary Medicine, the story of Professor Avni Sali and Integrative Medicine, and co-author of The Chemical Maze – Bookshelf Companion. 

My short story ‘Juice’ was shortlisted in the Cancer Council Arts Awards, and I won the Best Script award for ‘Pablo’s Muse’ in Theatre Shorts 3.

I am the founder of Writer’s Arena,  which includes eco-therapy, equine therapy and creativity based ‘writing with horses’ programs that nourish writing practice with the wisdom of nature and the way of the horse.

I am a writer with the courage to make a story real. Actually, I am many forms of writer – author, life story writer and biographer, freelance writer, ghostwriter, editor, communications specialist and content writer..

My personal writing interests are vested in exploring the healing power of story and the authentication of personal mythologies and experiences. I am influenced by Jungian philosophy and hold meaning and purpose as essential writing values in my genre, creative non-fiction.

My mission in writing is the pursuit of meaning and passionate action – meaningful words are the essence of a meaningful world. My writing has an inspirational quality, an emotional integrity that stems from a narrative based on personal experiences and deep reflection. I am mindful of the details that make life rich, gathering the threads that weave the tapestry of human experience. I value the poetic and see writing as a beautiful way to connect and elevate life. Through our words we stand for what we believe.

I work glocally (global/local) and am a part of the new era in self-created, balanced living. I live with a mountain and a river in the pristine Yarra Valley – writers’ bliss on the outskirts of Melbourne – but my virtual office takes me everywhere.

Qualifications – I’ve built a foundation over thirty years:

• Graduate Diploma of Arts in Writing – Swinburne University
• Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing and Management) – Deakin University
• Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling – Ikon International Institute for Healing Arts and Sciences
• Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy – Ikon International Institute for Healing Arts and Sciences
• Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing – GippsTAFE/CAE
• Writing for the Web, InDesign, Digital Photography, IOS Photography
• Certificate in Integrative Medicine – National Institute of Integrative Medicine
• Level 2 Instructor  – Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL)
• Cultural Awareness training – VACCA, July 2020 (certificate) | Unconscious Bias training August 2020
• Mental Health First Aid Certificate
• Level 5 Diploma of Teaching English as a Foreign Language TEFL)
• Understanding Cults – A Foundation Course for Clinicians Certificate – Freedom of Mind Resource centre (with Dr Steven Hassan)

I have a current Police Check and Working with Children.

Aptitudes – As a freelance writer I have learnt that:

• Lived experience is great research – It’s no secret that we write best about what we know.
• Real words connect real people to you (or to your business endeavours).
• Meaning, clarity and conviction are essential writing values.
• An understanding of how people think and be means I can write straight to the heart (and mind).
• What you need is a job done well, but isn’t it great to know you are working on a relationship as well as a task?

I’ve worked for multinational corporations (that was the 90s after all) in  Marketing Manager and Strategic Marketing roles in Australia and the Asia Pacific. (See my LinkedIn profile for all the details). Then I listened to my soul call and in 1998 started my freelance life bringing value to small and medium businesses that matched my moral and ethical compass. So far it’s working!

My daily research encompasses health and healing, story making, motherhood, cooking and nutrition, conscious business,  yoga, reading voraciously, a good red wine, advocacy and positive social action, living authentically, philosophy and a lifelong commitment to learning.

And of course there is writing…

Artists’ Statement

I am interested in revealing the untold tales of women and their souls. In freeing a woman’s voice.

In elevating the feminine.

To craft and be wholly of the feminine in way and word. To ride on the back of instinct and to write.

I look for the spaces in which we may seek our rest.

Where words provide pause.

Where beauty cracks us open.

This is what my own heart seeks most – to be broken by beauty and for words to become the imperfect veins of gold that allow us to weep and let us truly be.

Memberships and accreditation

• Life Stories Australia
• Yarra Valley Arts
• IICT- Full member for Narrative Therapy, EFL and Biography Writing, Professional Indemnity and Public Liability insurance
• Yarra Ranges Enterprise Centre

Lindy is a fully accredited member of Life Stories Australia.

Members bring an objective and experienced voice to their client’s story and provide a level of professionalism that goes beyond what you as a client could have otherwise achieved alone.

Life Stories Australia is an incorporated association of dedicated and experienced professionals who help individuals, families, communities, organisations and businesses to record and document personal and collective histories. Members preserve their clients’ stories across a broad range of mediums including but not limited to print, photographic, image, audio, film, digital and mixed media