I’m Rebecca Hay, a UK writer, mum, home educator and full-time traveller. I write about mental health, women’s health, motherhood, relationships and the strange things life throws at you, usually with a fair amount of dark humour.

I’m Rebecca Hay, a UK writer, mum, home educator and full-time traveller. I write about mental health, women’s health, motherhood, relationships and the strange things life throws at you, usually with a fair amount of dark humour.

My memoir, A Sky Full of Scars, starts with the hot-air-balloon accident I survived in 2016, but it’s really about the ten years that followed: trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, motherhood, recovery and rebuilding a life when things haven’t gone remotely to plan.

I’m interested in the part that comes after the dramatic story, when everyone else thinks the worst is over but you’re still living with what happened. I talk openly about my experiences because so much of what happened afterwards is far more common than the accident itself, and I want people going through their own difficult things to feel less alone.

Oversharing is basically my coping mechanism anyway, so I may as well put it to good use.