About Me — Jonathan Townend
So far anyway…
Hi to everyone for visiting my ‘About Me,’ page.
Now the owner of four publications here on Medium, and an editor for another.
After leaving school in 1986, I had a firm idea that I wanted to train as a Mental Health Nurse, mainly because from an early age I had lost my dad to suicide. I needed to understand the reasons why this occurred. What could have been done to help & support him (in what was undoubted) was a very traumatic period for him. So, the hope was that mental health would be able to teach me more about the complexities of why ‘someone does what they do,’ maybe providing some hope that there was more available to support people when in crisis today because life is precious to us all.
Ever since then in addition to nursing, I started writing. But as time went by and work got busier every day, my writing began to nosedive. For years I never wrote again, becoming so inherently self-absorbed in working and caring for others.
In 1998 I met a lovely young lady who as our first short year went by, we married one another just a year later. That for me was the beginning of the end of my old life. For many of the years to come my wife never stopped trying to get me back into writing, pushing me to strive for better things in life.
