About

Rachel Kelly is a bestselling writer, public speaker and mental health advocate. She is an ambassador for several mental health charities, including SANE and Rethink Mental Illness. Rachel is also an affiliate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.

 
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She shares evidence-based strategies on how to stay calm and well and is the author of five books covering her experience of depression and recovery and her steps to wellbeing from poetry to nutrition. A few years ago Rachel turned her focus to young people’s mental health, as a mother of five, and now runs well-being workshops for adolescents in schools and universities.

Her books include her memoir Black Rainbow about her expression of depression and four subsequent books about her recovery and how to stay calm and well - Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness; The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food; and Singing in the Rain: An inspirational workbook. Her latest book is You’ll Never Walk Alone: Poems for Life’s Ups and Downs published in 2022 by Hodder. Rachel is a member of the Speakers Collective, a group of speakers with lived experience of mental health conditions.

Rachel’s upcoming book The Gift of teenagers is now available to pre - order. It is being published by Short Books on the 8th May 2025. If you order now, you’ll get it as soon as it is released - and make one writer happy.