February 27th, 2024 12:29 pm

The 17th Anniversary Post

By |2024-02-27T12:29:09+11:00February 27th, 2024|Categories: Blog|Tags: , |

In 2013, when I began making progress with pain management, I had the idea to make a marionette of myself. Theo and I had just travelled to Italy (masks and Pinocchios everywhere!), and returning on the plane I watched the film, Marilyn. It dawned on me how seriously invisible many illnesses are. As much as I would have loved to make the marionette myself, at the time, any self-portraits I was drawing or painting were horrifying. They were brutal, disturbing, and sad to the point where I had to ask Theo to wrap them up one day – I couldn't look at them anymore.

September 7th, 2023 12:50 pm

Is Symptom Tracking Your Road Map to Better Days?

By |2023-09-07T12:50:14+10:00September 7th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Soula Mantalvanos (me!) as a guest contributor on MoreGoodDays. If you're living with fibromyalgia, you'll know first-hand how the experience forces you into constant symptom tracking. What’s this niggle? Is this [...]

July 24th, 2023 10:33 am

It’s National Pain Week And I’m Celebrating by Writing the End of this Story

By |2023-07-24T10:35:43+10:00July 24th, 2023|Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Online|Tags: , , |

Every year I think something amazing will happen during National Pain Week. But every year, nothing amazing ever does. We all wait for answers, but either the answers don't come, or they prove more tiresome. Worst of all, the answers are a direction to a lonely zone – the figure-it-out-yourself zone! So, figure it out myself; I will this year! I'm making National Pain Week AMAZING by writing the end of this story. 

March 14th, 2023 8:29 pm

Here and There, art exhibition at Queenscliff Gallery

By |2023-03-14T20:29:28+11:00March 14th, 2023|Categories: About, Blog, Creativity|Tags: , , |

Here and There exhibition: paintings, drawings and etchings of Venice by me at Queenscliff Gallery. It's thrilling to be writing this post. To my friends and followers further afield than Melbourne, I will have a virtual tour of the exhibition published on the Queenscliff Gallery (QG) website where you can view the works forming the exhibition and some of my other available artworks. Here and There is a culmination of my recent trip to Venice... to date!

March 7th, 2023 6:07 am

Soula Mantalvanos in Times News Group’s Women in Business International Women’s Day 2023 Edition

By |2023-03-06T20:09:22+11:00March 7th, 2023|Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Help, My Health Story, News, Online|Tags: , , , , |

(Image: Soula Mantalvanos, founder My Health Story features in Women in Business, Bellarine Times International Women’s Day special edition 2023) Feature, Women in Business, Bellarine Times International [...]

October 4th, 2022 2:30 pm

WEBINAR: Can visualising the personal health experience lead to better care and understanding?

By |2022-10-04T14:30:46+11:00October 4th, 2022|Categories: Advocacy, Events|Tags: , , , , , , |

Can visualising the personal health experience lead to better care and understanding? You all know what I think and believe about this. But now, I'm aiming to inform the rest of [...]

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