Vikki Roubin - Wobbly Woman’s Journal Jotter

Born in England in 1968, Vikki Roubin immigrated to Australia shortly after with her parents who sought warmer weather and better opportunity. Her life changed overnight at the onset of a fierce depressive episode; a disorder that would plague her life for the next sixteen years. Undiagnosed and largely unsupported for a good many of those years, it left her feeling desperately misunderstood, deeply isolated and altogether different from what she refers to as ‘The Normal People’.

Since her recovery over a decade ago, much of her attention has been given to actively helping other ‘Wobbly Women’. But, perhaps most significantly, it’s been through mentoring dozens of young women enrolled in an inner-city Youth Program – a program that in 2005 she was asked to lead. Such is her passion to see all women come to a place of self love and acceptance, that for the past decade she has opened her heart and home to women of various ages and backgrounds as a way of caring for them. Vikki’s desire is to be a ‘safe place’ in which hearts can unravel, dreams can be rekindled, fears shared, victories celebrated and a whole lot of love and encouragement can be received.

Based in Brisbane, Vikki describes her life as being, in many ways, quite unremarkable. She’s married with a big mortgage, two teenagers, two cats and one naughty beagle. For the past twenty-three years she’s worked as a contemporary voice teacher. Wobbly is Vikki’s first book.