Tag: life story

  • Audio book

    Sleeping Under the Bridge, book 1 in a trilogy of my life story, is now available as an audio book. It is narrated by Natalie Baxter, a young voice from the USA, who did a brilliant job in sharing my younger life story. Available in your favourite audio book app, or see these links: Kindle…

  • Finding hope

    Over the past month, I’ve had the opportunity to be interviewed by Georgia Free, Hope 103.2FM broadcaster and producer. I shared my story with her on three separate occasions for over 3 hours. Georgia could see from sharing my story that it won’t be the usual 30 minute episode for her Finding Hope podcast, it…

  • Holding onto Hope

    How do we hold onto hope when we are overwhelmed and consumed? We can do more for ourselves than we realise. In this short episode, I share those moments in my life, and it includes the first public reading of my new book Sleeping Under the Bridge. This is the first book in the trilogy on…

  • Press Release

    Press Release

    Sleeping Under the Bridge, a powerful true story where despair finds hope At age 16, author Melissa Baker, slept under the Sydney Harbour Bridge after being sexually abused as a child. In the 80s, Human Rights Australia states there were over 3,500 homeless youth in Sydney. Today, whilst abuse has lessened, homelessness is 8 times…

  • Empowering You

    I started my first podcast show, LivingWell Talks, in July 2020. This was the very first episode I recorded that shares some of my story that is written in the first book of my up-coming trilogy series – Sleeping Under the Bridge. From nearly taking my life at 16 years of age to empowering people…