With respect I hope I can share my journey.

I’ve dealt with mental health issues all my life and I had a severe mental breakdown in 2016 and have been rebuilding my life slowly ever since. Due to this breakdown I lost all my creativity and have spent the past 4 years in and out of hospital and receiving therapeutic treatments for my mental health.
 
Since then I have been having music tuition and artist development twice a week, this has included having vocal, guitar, studio recording time and songwriting sessions.

Music has been one of my most important therapies, it has helped to heal my soul and has given me a purpose in life, a musical release, that for so many long dark years I did not have, I didn’t lose it. It was hibernating, and I’m able to tune into that creative realm again which I’m grateful.
 
With this support and encouragement, I have returned to fully re-embracing my love of songwriting, and have started to develop some songs about my journey, I have discovered my own voice capacity, and I'm working towards live performance and studio work.

For myself, this has been the pathway back home to me. Back to a life of purpose and future with meaning. Through recording and performing these songs I aim to positively impact the lives of others who have experienced mental health difficulty and be a positive
role model of recovery.
 
I hope to help others with mental health difficulty return to the life of meaning that
they desire and deserve. Additionally, I would like to utilize the exposure I gain through
performance to cultivate awareness of music therapy and creation as a pathway, and tool,for mental health recovery. 

A pathway that is little known, but as is evident as my example so far, has been life-changing.

Music is medicine for me. I have come so far musically, emotionally and I’m now writing my own journey with my music. I plan to fly where only dreamers fly. I’m putting in the hard steps to make this happen.

Mental Health is an unseen disability and one that a lot of people don’t recognize and that, even in today’s progressive society, still has a lot of stigma attached to it. 

I want to be able to help people like myself with mental illness, families, carers and the wider population, realise that reaching out and starting the recovery path, can with a lot of hard work and supports be so rewarding.

I wrote a song called The Dreamer which can be heard on jango radio 

https://www.jango.com/music/Lisa+Vivian/The+Dreamer


The Dreamer by Lisa Vivian is available for upload on iTunes Spotify Amazon Music Deezer And many other music platforms. 

If at you you feel the urge, please help my share my story on your page. I really would appreciate it. I want to be the voice of mental health musically...cheers Lisa


I’m living My dream..I’m a singer songwriter singer song fighter 🎼🎶 💪❤️