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...
Tag: depression
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...
Little ways to help yourself heal
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...
7 Mantra’s to cling to when you’ve lost hope
There have been countless nights when I been crying hysterically, lying on one floor or another. There have been far more times than I could count when I have been...
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...
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...
Choosing vulnerability
I was raised to see vulnerability as a weakness. Told to not talk about our feelings, to put on a mask, pretend everything is fine – that it’s all about...
8 tips to help when life doesn’t go to plan
Life doesn’t always go to plan. For all of the good times, there are bad times too. Times when we’re hurt and sad. When we’re lonely. When life has derailed...
Follow your heart
while today i’m living the life that i always dreamed of, up until a few years ago I was still trying to please others and do ‘what i should’ not what...
Ten years ago…
ten years ago today this man walked into my life, on the day i very nearly left this world. he was there at the worst, when no one else was....
On Contentment
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” Frederick Keonig ...
On being me
I wrote this the other night…. and I came so close to deleting. But if you’re reading this I guess I didn’t!!! I was scared this would just make me...