MEET EVA
Eva Melissa Roshan is a writer, poet and author of her first published book ‘Wearing Red - One Woman’s Journey to Sanity’. She was born in Coventry, England in the 1950s.
Her life-affirming story reveals how she has overcome childhood sexual abuse, alcohol and debt addiction, divorce, depression and self-abuse. She vividly portrays living with bi-polar mood swings, and how she healed herself by creating a beneficial relationship with her demons.
The book depicts how she found the wisdom and courage to forge a new path of recovery, finding freedom and overcoming shame, reclaiming her sanity in the process.
Her intention is for ‘Wearing Red’ to become a testimony to the power of releasing secrets, speaking out and being heard.
She aims to become an ambassador working with others to change mental health discrimination and help shift attitudes towards sexual abuse. This is why she works as a mental health awareness trainer and mentor, when she isn’t writing.
As a result of her own recovery journey, she has a special interest in the addiction field, having spent three years as Chief Executive of a national therapeutic addiction recovery charity, ARA, based in the South West of England.
Eva then worked for a further two years as European Programme Consultant for Eric Clapton’s Crossroads addiction recovery treatment facility in Antigua. She also ran addiction seminars in schools and companies.
She is currently writing her second book, working title ‘Staying Afloat’ as a practical resource to support others in maintaining their well-being despite adversity, based on her own personal experience. The book will contain 365 days of reflections, insight and tools on self-care, that have worked for Eva, to help others stay afloat in these ever-changing times.
Her life journey has provided her with intuitive awareness as to what helps maintain mental health balance and well-being.
She set up her personal development consultancy ‘Creating Choices’ in 1996, working as a guide, coaching and mentoring individuals and groups at all levels in commercial, public and voluntary sector worlds. Her specific focus was on the importance of relationships, behaviour and feelings, as people search for meaning and purpose in their lives.
She has consulted at senior executive level within organisations such as Marks & Spencer, Prudential and Glaxo, as well as local and national charities and the public sector, working in the UK, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
Her coaching practice was established, as a result of having received frequent requests from individuals to support them on their journey through life.
She has an MSc in Communications and has trained in Psychosynthesis and Gestalt philosophies and counselling techniques, which inform her work.
She lives in Bristol with her husband Jonny Kinkead a guitar maker. He runs his own successful business: Kinkade Guitars from his workshop in Bristol. She has three daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.