self love - Polly Jemima

Marching to the Beat of Radical Self-Care: Embracing a Month of Wellness

March 8, 2024

I hit a wall at the end of February. I’ve been feeling increasingly burnt out since the start of the year, and I’ve reached a point when I just can’t keep pretending {to myself as well as the world} that everything is OK. The last few years have been a lot, so much unprocessed trauma...

JOURNAL

Small pockets of time

September 11, 2023

Breathe. Sometimes I need to remind myself to stop for a minute and just breathe. Days can get overwhelming, and as we rush from one task to the next, we forget to slow down and allow ourselves a moment or two. For those with kids in school, it’s back to the old routine this week....

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Listening to my body

October 8, 2021

All week long I’ve had a migraine. Not a really bad one, thankfully, just a little one niggling in the background. Finally today, I think {HOPE} that it has finally gone. At first I was really annoyed, and then I realised it was a sign from my body that I wasn’t loving it enough. I...

JOURNAL

Showing up for me

September 16, 2021

Life has a way of running away with us, so much happens on autopilot, our days can become groundhog day like. We get up, eat, work, eat, sleep, repeat. My days can run away with me, so full with kids and work and other commitments, that I barely get a look in. But like that...

BLOG

Monday Musings

August 9, 2021

I’m feeling happy and content this morning. Even as I sit here, trying to write and the boys are running around and shouting. I’m a little sleepy, I’ve an hour or so of work ahead of me to get through before we can begin the rest of the day, and a busy week ahead –...

JOURNAL

Seeking connection

July 2, 2021

It’s a quiet Friday morning, I’m not home alone but silence surrounds me. With the boys out of the house so I can work, the house is so much quieter than usual. There was a time when hte quiet unnerved me, when an empty house, no-one calling ‘Mama’ every five minutes would leave me feeling...

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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...

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A year of staying just as I am

January 24, 2020

I was twelve the first time I dyed my hair. Cherry Red, which was quite a change from my mousy blonde hair. By the time I moved school a few weeks later, it had faded to an orangey hue which certainly made me noticeable as the ‘new girl’ {two and a half years later, when...

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