Lauren McQuistin is a London-based Scottish musician and writer. No Lost Causes Club is based on her multiple years of sobriety and her Instagram @brutalrecovery. There she creates content for recovering humans looking for identification, and a message with equal parts humor and hope. Lauren was a professional opera singer, winning the district round of the Metropolitan National Opera Competition three times. She uses her experience as a musician to teach trauma-informed musicianship and has been featured in the Journal of Singing for her research on trauma's impact on the voice.