Category: ADVICE

5 ways to turn around a ‘down day’

May 18, 2020

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 I’d let them control me, I’d see them as a sign that my depression/anxiety were ramping back up, I’d give in to those feelings and...

ADVICE, BLOG

6 ways to quell the anxiety

May 12, 2020

I know too well the awful feeling of anxiety. For years I struggled to keep it under control, endless days with my stomach a ball of knots, unable to eat or sleep or leave the house. Every single thing was magnified a thousand times under the glare of anxiety, every possibilty overthought, every single thing...

ADVICE, BLOG, COLLABORATIVE

5 tips to protect your mental health in lockdown

May 5, 2020

Hello loves, how are we all doing? After several weeks of lockdown, emotions are all over the place and we are all feeling the strain. We are not designed to live such isolated lives. We thrive on connection and living separated from our loved ones is hard on all of us. Whether you are alone...

ADVICE, BLOG, FAMILY, INSPIRATION

What I learned from some lost photos

February 24, 2020

On Saturday my phone told me it needed to do a system update, having done them hundreds of times before, I clicked update, thinking nothing of it. Half an hour later, the update was all done, but when I picked my phone up, a box kept popping up every couple of seconds to tell me...

ADVICE, BLOG

Little ways to help yourself heal

February 24, 2020

As I talked about in my post ‘5 ways to support yourself‘, it is vital to put your support in yourself, to learn how to take care of yourself and build yourself up. Only YOU can be the savior of you. Here are 15 little ways to help yourself heal Stand in front of the...

ADVICE, BLOG, INSPIRATION

Loving our Postpartum Bodies

February 20, 2020

Before I became a Mama I never gave thought to what my body would look like post-partum. I guess I just presumed it would ping straight back into shape – the media aways showed us these perfect looking celebrities who had given birth and looked like they’d never even been pregnant. So when I gave...

ADVICE, BLOG

13 mantras to boost your self-worth

February 17, 2020

I’m the worst at negative self-talk, or rather I should say I was the worst. For most of my life the voice in my head was a very negative one, giving a constant commentary on everything that I was doing wrong. It would put me down at every opportunity. The problem with negative self-talk is...

ADVICE, BLOG

Support your Mental Health – 5 simple steps to help

February 10, 2020

I remember times when I was in the midst of a bout of depression, or my anxiety was sky high, desperately wishing for support from someone. What I wanted was for someone to come along and wave a magic wand, to suddenly make everything alright again and magically make me feel better. If every you...