A full-time wheelchair user for 36 years has published her debut novel.
She has said that writing has been a vital part of her healing process, following a life changing accident.
Monaghan author Tracey Martin's said she has been writing her novel, 'So Not Me', for 15 years.
Ms. Martin was in a car crash a week before her 18th birthday that left paralysed from the chest down.
Speaking on the Joe Finnegan Show this morning, she said that any form of creativity gives people a way of expressing what's inside.
She said: "When you suppress your emotions and you don't deal with them, it only comes back to haunt you. Chronic pain would be wrapped up in that as well.
"Expressing what's going on in you in any form of creativity, weather that be writing, or painting, or dancing, or movement, is a great way of getting it out there.
"Even though I have no conscious memory of the accident, my body remembers, and that's the thing. Our bodies are so intelligent, but they're always speaking to us," Ms. Martin added.
