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Mental Health Awareness Week

May 17, 2024

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 hovers over mental health issues. It is also a week to highlight ways to support your own mental health and to help support those who...

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5 tips to turn around a ‘down day’

March 1, 2023

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 ‘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...

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Mindful Monday

October 3, 2022

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 too much, I began to see how it had always been there – even when I had no name for it. Six years ago I...

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Working through anxiety

January 12, 2022

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 of my adult life, even though at the time I didn’t realise. Thankfully, for the last couple of years, it’s been pretty non-existent. So when...

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Anxiety – how I fought back control

May 14, 2021

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 feeling of doom always lingering around me, the urge to keep control of everything. Anxiety overtook me as a teen, when suddenly, years of holding...

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Self-soothing – 5 techniques to help

May 12, 2021

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, or going through a tricky patch was a real life-changer. The way we cope when the shit hits the fan makes the world of difference....

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Mental Health Awareness Week

May 10, 2021

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 still hovers over mental health issues. It is also a week to highlight ways to support your own mental health and to help support those...

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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...

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