Mental Health Awareness Week
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, a week to talk about Mental Health. A time to bring it into everyday conversation and to help to remove the stigma that still...
Tag: anxiety
5 tips to turn around a ‘down day’
We all have ‘those days’ – the ones when nothing seems to go right, when you are overwhelmed and overwrought, when you wake up with a serious case of the...
Mindful Monday
Fear. I never realised just how much of a control it had on my life until it completely took over. When my anxiety was sky high and life was just...
Working through anxiety
I’ve spoken lots in the past about my anxiety, how crippling it was and how hard I worked to overcome it. Looking back, it was there for pretty much all...
Anxiety – how I fought back control
Anxiety. I had it for years before I really even knew that I did. For as long as I can remember, there has been that knot in my stomach, the...
Self-soothing – 5 techniques to help
Self-soothing. This is one thing that made a HUGE difference to me when my anxiety and depression were crippling. Learning methods that I could use when I was upset, anxious,...
Mental Health Awareness Week
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, a week to talk about Mental Health. A timt to bring it into everyday conversation and to help to remove the stigma that...
5 ways to turn around a ‘down day’
We all have ‘those days’ – days when nothing goes right, when you are overwhelmed and overwrought, when you wake up with a serious case of the ‘mehs’. For years...
Postpartum Anxiety
Postpartum anxiety doesn’t get talked about anywhere near as much as postpartum depression. And while I knew that I had PPD after my second child was born, postpartum anxiety never...
Wading through the fog
Sometimes it hits and you know why. Bereavement. Relationship breakups. Miscarriage. A myriad of other reasons. And sometimes it hits and there is no one reason. Depression doesn’t only follow...
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger
It’s only when you look back, with the benefit of time and distance, that you realise that day you thought was the worst day of your life, was actually the...
10 tweaks I made to my life to overcome depression and anxiety
Eighteen months ago I was in the grips of anxiety and depression, and I couldn’t even imagine ever not feeling like that again. For too long I sat in that...
Ending the stigma
One thing I’ve learned these past few months is that being open and honest can help others who are going through their own rough patches. Last September, when my world...