In this heartfelt and inspiring episode of the Self Love Podcast, Kim speaks with radiographer and author Elise Helliwell who shares her journey from science and motherhood into the world of fiction writing. Elise opens up about how the isolation of COVID lockdowns and her experience with postnatal depression became the catalyst for writing her debut time travel romance novel, Within the Space of a Second.

The conversation explores creativity, imagination, and the healing power of storytelling, as Elise discusses her writing process, character development, and the craft books that helped shape her work. She also gives us a glimpse into the next instalment of her trilogy and shares her dream of one day seeing the series adapted for film.

Filled with insight, warmth, and encouragement, this episode is a reminder to listen to your creative whispers, make space for what lights you up, and trust that it is never too late to begin.

About Elise
Elise Helliwell resides on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, with her husband and two cheeky girls. An avid romance reader, Elise writes contemporary and sci-fi/fantasy romance, juggling themes of love, anticipation and emotional angst. Part time radiographer and full time hopeless romantic, Elise’s writing combines her love of science and the romance genre to produce suspenseful, swoon-worthy love stories that will keep readers falling until the very last page.

Elis’s debut, Within the Space of a Second is a slow-burn, swoon-worthy love story about two people separated by time and the dangerous secrets that threaten to tear them apart. A debut time travel romance for fans of The Seven Year Slip, Divine Rivals and A Discovery of Witches. Out now in paperback, audiobook and electronic formats.

Her definition of Self Love is: My definition of self love is giving myself the time and space to be creative

Her favourite quote is: If you don’t come out of this quarantine with either a new skill, starting what you have been putting off, like a new business, or more knowledge, you never lacked the time you lacked the discipline

Links to follow:

Website: www.elisehelliwell.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elisehelliwellauthor/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564569088617

Quotes:
I would describe myself as bubbly, positive and not afraid of a challenge.
I never thought that I would write a book.
I just couldn’t find the book that I wanted to read. So I thought, I will just write it.
There was this fear that people would say, you know, she is not a writer, she is a science girl, she is a radiographer.
I believed in the story.
I knew that even though I wasn’t the best writer in the world, I knew that I could learn and I was determined to.
I believe that anyone who wants to write, they should, because the only way that you get better is by continuing to practice that skill.
Writing was my escape from all the things going on in life that I was struggling with.
Writing was the thing that saved me.
I think letting your imagination run wild is a beautiful thing.
There is this thing that I love to do, that I never even knew I could do.
It isn’t art, but it’s an art that can be taught and can be learned, which is what I love.
I think since the age of time, we have always been storytellers.
It is just having the courage to listen to that whisper and begin writing if you want to.
If you have those little whispers and you push them aside, it is a real missed opportunity because you never know where it might lead and how it might help you in the future.
Writing is my mental health time.
You can’t edit a blank page.
Creativity comes in all forms. So don’t be afraid to find yours and embrace it and listen to that little whisper.

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