Books by Lydia Rolley

Lydia is a recently retired occupational therapist (DipCOT - Salford College of Occupational Therapy, 1982) and systemic psychotherapist/family therapist (MSc - Leeds University, 2011). Throughout her career she has worked in a variety of mental and physical health NHS settings, including over 15 years as part of a specialist regional chronic fatigue management service. As well as her NHS career, Lydia worked with her family in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina, supporting humanitarian aid causes during the Balkan war in the mid-1990s. Her youngest of four children, Rachel Alice Leggett, was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She is the illustrator of The Fatigue Book. Lydia has her own lived experience of CFS/ME and, when diagnosed many years ago, was given no support or guidance. She rarely talks about her experience, but it has fuelled her desire, over the years, to work collaboratively and enable people in their recovery journey. Sheffield has been her home for many years. She loves spending time with family and friends and exploring all that Sheffield and the surrounding beautiful countryside have to offer.