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Cara Louise Bingham

Teen & Young Adult
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One of the hardest things for me to do is write about myself, but here goes. I was born Cara Louise Connnell but when my parents got divorced when I was little, I took my mother’s maiden name Bingham. My mother Noela Ann Bingham, really was my rock growing up. She helped me cope through all the challenges in my life. She was a single parent raising three daughters on her own; she also took jobs where she could help others. She has been an assistant at a Montessori nursery; teaching children from three to five years old. She’s also worked as a care assistant and taught other carers NVQ qualifications. She was and still is a very spiritual person. She is a healer; a Clairvoyant; and masseuse. I was exposed to many spiritual religions that helped me to better understand nature and myself. We lived in a beautiful private park that was quite secluded and inspired me to write my first books. Growing up with learning difficulties was tough. I didn’t learn to read properly until I was ten; meant that I couldn’t go to mainstream schools. so, my education was very basic. I attended a special needs school that didn’t do GCSE’s; instead, we did City and Guilds exams. Students that went to that school were often told that due to their learning difficulties they wouldn’t amount to much and not to expect too much when we left. For a girl who wanted to either be an Author or an actress that advice was quite dream crushing. After school I attended college and studied BTEC in Performing Arts. I faced many challenges there as I was in classes with ‘Normal’ students, and yet I was able to hold my own; earning several distinctions (the highest mark in the course) but I was told that I was too sensitive to make it in the arts so I wasn’t allowed to move onto higher courses. For a while this affected my confidence, but then I found amateur companies to perform with and I started to feel a little better. All my life I have struggled with weight issues, I was a stress and comfort eater. If I had a bad day I would eat a lot of things that were bad for me; like crisps and chocolate, so much so that I became a type two diabetic and grew to be 24 stone (which is 336 LBS or 153KG) I was ill with weight related illnesses like Sleep apnoea and recurring DVT clots and pulmonary Embolisms, which can be fatal. I knew that if I carried on the way I was I would die, but I knew that I couldn’t lose the weight on my own, so I decided to have a gastric bypass operation. I am so lucky to live in a country where I could get the surgery done for free and I am ever thankful for the NHS system for allowing me to have it done. I recently lost 9 stone (58KG or 127.8 LBS) and I have been a lot healthier ever since. My last blood tests showed that my diabetes is in remission and I so is my Sleep Apnoea, I am also able to do more things. Before Covid 19 I started Latin American and Ballroom dance lessons, but they have all stopped for a while, so has all my performing Arts groups, now I can only sing with people through singing apps and online singing groups that I have set up a few years ago. Singing is more than just singing for me it’s like therapy and a way of coping with my depression and anxiety issues. I have always loved telling stories, even when I couldn’t write due to my difficulties I had. I would still make them up and recite them. I also loved to sing, although I’m not a natural singer. I had problems with my ears and couldn’t hear music properly so every time I sang, I was out of tune and key and even my family told me to shut up when I tried. I have had to work hard to battle my limitations. To be able to sing. I spent ages at a piano (my mother got the family) working on scales and my tuning issues until I could hit the right notes. I then started singing lessons. Now I’m in one of the best amateur singing groups in my area. Some of their past members have gone on to work in The West End. I started writing my first book about twenty years ago, but I saved it onto a disk that got wiped and I couldn’t find the hard copy that I’d printed off, until years later when I moved to a new house. Then I started to type it up again, but I couldn’t think of a title for the story; apart from one that didn’t feel right Mira Storm Weather and the Peggimouse. It was only when I went to the photo shoot for my first cover that the idea finally came to me. The site of the shoot was in a beautiful meadow that meant a lot to me growing up and it was as if someone whispered in my ear Child of Nature. the phrase suited the book, so I decided that would be the title. Since then I have written and self-published three Young adult fantasy books under the name Cara L Bingham Which are available on Amazon and Kindle Child of Nature (Mira Storm Weather) Quest for Freedom (Mira Storm Weather) Guardian of Magic (Mira Storm Weather) Mira Storm Weather Boxset I also have a pen name Louise Sinclaire, for my adult romance books Duty and Desire. I plan to write in multiple genres and am working on another two books Hidden Beauty (Historical Romance) Protecting The Muse of Denton (College Reverse Harem Romance) If my life was a lesson, it would be that if you work hard enough and have determination then you can achieve your dreams. I might not be doing all the things I wanted to do professionally, but at least I have found a way of doing them.
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