User:Theresa A O'Dea

Theresa A O'Dea was born on the 16 August 1962 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Theresa an Australian Author and Poet who has been actively involved in the poetry and music scene, since 1978. Her poetry composes of real life happenings. Theresa's main interest is in the realm of preventing family violence and the social inequality of the world. Although, ' Domestic Violence' can be at the most of times, silent in the fact that alot of the assaults either verbal or psychically are not always reported to the appropriate law abiding authorities, she has maintained a stance of setting or a power of example in reality to try to keep pursuing a more positive outcome with this issue among society at large. For family violence is a deadly killer within our society.

Ms O'Dea has turned her literal concepts of poetry on domestic violence into positive accolades of hope and honesty. Not all of her poetry is on domestic violence as she does write about other areas of life such as love, happiness and other cultural diversities in a respectful and positive meaning. But, her passion in writing is to really reflect on the family breakdown within many societies on a worldly sphere. Her genuine in put to this despairing breakdown within the family values reflects her own pain and disappointment and the reflections of other people that are represented in her writings.

Up to date, Ms O'Dea has written and published 12 poetry books, 2 books on Astrology and Cosmobiology concepts, 1 novella on domestic violence, 1 fiction book on social psychological inequality and still writing and at this point in time a total of 16 publications.

She is also the facilitator and creator of 'Hopeishope11' preventing violence against women and Ms O'Dea is and has been for many years, a trusted servant of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotic Anonymous in Australia.

Her concept of alcoholism and drug addiction is in her study are both similar. The addiction to alcohol and drug use is a mental illness within itself. The alcoholic breakdowns through out the alcoholics use of alcohol is an progressive illness and therefore a mental obsession. The drug addict breakdowns are the same, a mental obsession, a mental illness.