In The Importance of Being Me we follow Courtney who has just been left by her husband and who is full of self-loathing that she married the wrong man and that she lets her daughter walk all over her. Caroline Grace-Cassidy explores what happens when a woman, and mother, starts putting herself first, and whether it is ever too late to start over…?

Caroline Grace Cassidy

Caroline Grace Cassidy

  1. YOU are the person that you have to live with every single day of your life for the rest of your life. Find out what that person wants, needs, loves, hates before inviting anyone else in. This way their opinions can be debated and discussed but not forced upon you.
  2. YOU are the most important person you will ever meet. Make sure you want to meet yourself.
  3. YOU need to know exactly who you are before you can tell anyone else about yourself.
  4. YOU need to know why you want to involve someone else in YOUR life. Society has told us a lot of stuff about relationships in the past. We must couple up. We must procreate. We must absolutely not have to do any of these things.
  5. YOUR interests and needs need to be met and the only way to ensure someone else can comply with these need is for you to make sure you know what they are.
  6. YOUR happiness will never come from someone else, it will be expanded and made even more joyous but it needs to be there first.
  7. YOURSELF is someone you should be happy to go on holiday with, eat dinner with, watch a movie with.
  8. YOURSELF is always a work in progress
  9. YOU won’t find what you’re looking for anywhere but within.
  10. YOU can captain your own ship … but sailing alone however beautiful is always a little sweeter when you can share the view with someone else.

 Caroline Grace-Cassidy is an Irish writer and actress. She trained as an actress at the Gaiety School of Acting before landing her first role as Mary Mull on BAFTA award-winning children’s programme Custer’s Last Stand-Up. Since then she has appeared in various productions for BBC, RTE, TG4 and TV3, alongside a variety of feature films. Turning to full-time writing in 2011, Caroline has published four novels. Caroline is also a founding member of an all female Film & TV Production Company, for which she has written, produced and directed five short films. Her first feature film script is completed and in development. Caroline is a contributor for Woman’s Way, U Magazine, Irish Country Magazine and has been a regular panellist for the Midday show on TV3 since 2012.