21 September 2020

We are launching our book Fear: Reflections on Covid-19 on Friday 25 September at 11am.

A diverse group of professionals working within healthcare, academia, nursing students and people with lived experience were approached, to collaboratively deliver different perspectives about fear. The book is a reflection of feelings of fear and anxiety and the challenges faced by healthcare workers, and is written from that perspective.

You willl hear from:

  • Margaret Rioga
    • Associate Professor - Associate Head of School, School of Nursing and Allied Healthcare, Bucks New University
  • Ntsoaki Mary Mosoeunyane
    • Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Society & Health, Bucks New University
  • Ade Odunlade
    • Managing Director, CNWL’s Jameson Division
  • Dr Ryan Kemp
    • CNWL Director  of Therapies

To watch the launch visit this Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94909066569

Robyn Doran, CNWL’s Chief Operating Officer, writes in the forward,

“When I was asked by my colleague Ade to write the foreword to this book it made me reflect on my own experiences of fear and my earliest Memory of Fear which was as a young child growing up in Napier, New Zealand.  A town that frequently experienced earthquakes.  Whenever we had an earthquake I remember the haunted look of utmost fear on my Dad’s face and he would freeze.  We would not be able to move him to the places of safety we had been taught to move into in earthquake drills at school.  I never fully understood that look.  I realised now the fear I saw in my Dad’s eyes was probably as a result of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which can often be associated with traumatic events.  As a child he was at school in Napier in 1931, when a major earthquake ripped through the town and destroyed it and many lost their lives.  He witnessed this first-hand and never had any chance for treatment or help over the years as the town rebuilt itself (both the bricks and mortar and the community).

“This book is about trying to make sense of fear that millions are experiencing today, it is written in the midst of the biggest pandemic that the world has seen for many generations.  Each chapter is written by someone who has a perspective and reflections to share.

“A number of the authors are health professionals who come from a range of backgrounds, many have been delivering frontline services in the midst of this pandemic so have first-hand experience of fear and share their own perspectives and of those around them. 

“This book will make you think and give you food for thought, I also hope in years to come it will help others to learn from us.”

The book is available to purchase on Amazon in paperback and for Kindle.