Two years ago I had planted sunflowers to feel closer to my Ma, who had green thumbs. She loved plants and had a plant nursery, when…
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I’ve been lonely all my life – Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
For most of my life I’ve felt alone and lonely. I never realised this was a thing, it’s just how I’ve always felt and I…
View More I’ve been lonely all my life – Mental Health Awareness Week 2022Why do we stay?
I wish there was an easy answer to this. For those of us who struggle, who want to leave, who don’t feel like we belong.
View More Why do we stay?I tried floatation therapy for the first time
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I agreed to try a floatation tank for the first time. Without knowing much about it, just seeing the tank with the soothing blue lighting gave me the feeling that the future was here and I was stepping into a science fiction novel.
View More I tried floatation therapy for the first timeA night in the life of… an insomniac living with fibromyalgia
Monday 4 October 2021, 1.27am Luckily for me I don’t have work later today, because it is 1.27am and I am wide awake. I am…
View More A night in the life of… an insomniac living with fibromyalgiaHow a plant, a cat and conversation brought me from the brink of a mental precipice
Last June, at the height of the covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, I wanted to die. Quite suddenly, I had lost my Ma. Grief fed my…
View More How a plant, a cat and conversation brought me from the brink of a mental precipiceWhy World Mental Health is even more important this year
World Mental HealthDay 2020. Where to even start?
View More Why World Mental Health is even more important this yearHow painting mindfully is helping me to cope during tough times
*I received a paint by numbers kit in exchange for an honest review* Last week, on the morning of my 35th birthday, my beloved grandmum…
View More How painting mindfully is helping me to cope during tough timesCoping in a time of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
These are difficult times. As nations try to contain and curb the spread of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, there’s plenty of worrying going on about…
View More Coping in a time of Coronavirus (COVID-19)Trauma retriggered
Right now I do not know what tomorrow holds but I’ve made it till now. I’ve plastered up the cracks and glued together the broken bits. That is a victory. Till the next day.
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