I still struggle at times but a huge part of getting better has been preparing my meals with love and care (mindful cooking), connecting what I eat with what my body will benefit from, and mindful eating… Food therapy anyone?
View More Visions of kale (Bulimia, mindful eating & a power packed kale and tofu stir fry recipe you’ll keep coming back to)
This was supposed to be a post of how unfeasible many of our GP practices are run the the UK. But instead, something extraordinary happened…
View More Who’s listening? The extraordinary happened to me
I was surprised to find myself largely neutral to the widespread mental health campaigns being run to raise awareness. I’ve seen many of these, encouraging…
View More The messy side of mental health problems : what the media & campaigns don’t show
It is by complete coincidence that I’m posting this on World Suicide Prevention Day. I drafted this post last week because I was looking at…
View More ‘Fibromylgia and wanting to die’ – World Suicide Prevention Day
This is my second post in the What was that? – my series on ‘what the crap is going on?’ Before I thought of blogging…
View More What was that? (C-PTSD, anxiety & gorgeous hoodies)
I have been trying for the better part of the last year and a half to get back into my old blogging habits. I’ve been…
View More What was that? – the first in a series of ‘what the crap is going on’ posts
Today I learnt that my swimming classes are more than just about learning to swim. You might recall that last year I embarked on a…
View More Swim classes: lessons in confronting anxiety, self-doubt..the whole shebang
My Aunty has died. For a moment all I could hear was white noise. And my world, which has been feeling more and more like…
View More Hello depression my old friend…
Right now I am thinking about the unconventional therapist who first, offered me her pot of yellow roses, then insisted on her beautiful cactus. “You…
View More Promises that must be kept
Pre dental surgery anxiety flared, my IBS went crazy and I felt so so sick. My breakfast wanted to come up. And it sorta did.…
View More Can’t stop the feeling