World Mental Health Day: My Story From a New Angle
I’d just like to start this World Mental Health Day post with a trigger warning, as I’m going to be touching on a few potentially triggering topics including depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, compulsions, cancer. Despite…
View PostAvoiding Burnout Symptoms as a Freelancer: 5 Important Warning Signs
With many modern jobs having at least an element of ‘working on-the-go’, and with more of us than ever before opting to work from home, it can be difficult to switch off effectively at the…
View PostWhen Grief Doesn’t Wait: My Experience of Anticipatory Grief
We’re all familiar with the ‘5 stages of grief’ model, but what actually is ‘grief’? Is it an emotion? An action? A thought? When does grief end? When does grief start? The answer to the…
View Post10 Admin Tasks to Keep you Busy During Lockdown
I don’t know about anyone else but it’s seven weeks into lockdown and I’m starting to feel like a little bit antsy! Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely grateful that this is all I’ve really…
View PostNow is the Time for Complete Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance is something many of us struggle with at least at some points in our life, if not all the time. This can present itself in many different forms, whether that be feeling dissatisfied with…
View PostProductivity in a Pandemic: Let’s go Easy on Ourselves
If you’ve been anywhere near social media since the Coronavirus lockdown began, you will have seen it. It’s hidden in the pictures of your fave influencer #grinding in the garden of their multi-million pound home.…
View PostCreating a Schedule for Your Lockdown Mental Health
A couple of weeks into lockdown and it still all feels a little bit surreal to me. At the start of this year who’d have ever anticipated where we’d be just a few months down…
View PostCoping With Health Anxiety in a Pandemic
It seems like absolutely ages since I last wrote a blog post, and SO much has happened in that time frame! I think we can all relate to life feeling like a bit of a…
View PostI Feel Like Shit (SEO Title of the Century)
I feel like shit. There, I said it. I feel like shit in a way I’ve rarely felt in years. It literally just hit me out of the blue last night, and I haven’t been…
View PostMy Sunday Spring Clean Routine!
I think we can all agree that there’s truly nothing more enjoyable on a Sunday than having a big old clean and tidy, ready for the week ahead! Ok, maybe not everyone will agree with…
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