When we talk about self-care, we think about it as this luxury piece of time that we have to carve out every single day. It’s drummed into us that we should be taking long soaks in a lavender bath and having time to rest and while yes, that would be nice, it’s not the only…
Walking slowly towards the supermarket in a fatigued state with a blank expression on my face, I couldn’t help feeling as if I’d completely lost myself. I had gone past the point of overwhelm and was in pure survival mode. The thoughts that had occupied my brain for the past month had suddenly been replaced…
They told me to keep quiet, to keep the peace, to make him comfortable. So the trauma danced around in my head, migrating into my chest and hardening my limbs. I carried the weight of it on my shoulders and in the pit of my stomach. I felt its unnerving embrace as I tried to…
Want to learn how to start your own mental health blog or Podcast on personal life experiences? Since starting this mental health blog in 2014, my mental health has drastically improved for a few reasons: I felt that if I was going to write a blog about mental health, I wanted it to be more…
Do you want a motivating list of goals, that consists of things you know you can actually achieve in the near future? Well, in this post I’ve rounded up 100 life goals which are a little bit more realistic than the usual lists. I’m a huge advocate for setting smaller, achievable goals and writing them…
If you’re like me and struggle with insomnia, it can be super frustrating trying to think of things to do when bored at night. No one wants to be lying in bed doing nothing for hours, just waiting to go to sleep. So what sort of things to do when bored at night? Here’s a…
