Blog
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My Last 5 Years in a Nutshell
Welcome back to my blog, after what was a much longer hiatus than I intended – 5 years to be exact. First of all let me address the elephant in the room: I am very aware that my last post was all about my blogging hiatus, why I took a break and how I hope to come back. That post was written in 2022 and I haven’t touched this blog since, oh the irony. So, instead of writing more on what you already know, why I took a break and how I hope to come back, I thought I’d do something different and talk about what has happened in my…
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Returning To Writing After a Hiatus
In August 2020 I made the painful, but necessary, decision to take a break from blogging. I usually love to write, and this labour of love was one of my biggest hobbies. But by this point it had become stressful, and tiring, and just another thing on my to-do list that I couldn’t keep up with. Did the pandemic have an impact? It’s hard to say. All I know is that I was spending every day preoccupied with page views and how to increase them, so much so that it sucked the joy out of writing completely. It was supposed to be a short break, a month or two tops,…
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Sleep With Me Podcast: My Secret Weapon for Sleep
Sleep is such an important part of our lives, it’s essential. Yet so many of us struggle with it. I myself find it really hard to fall asleep, and to stay asleep. If you’ve tried many of the tips for a good night’s sleep that are out there, and found nothing that works, I’m here to introduce you to my secret weapon: the Sleep With Me Podcast. My main issue when I am trying to sleep is that I just cannot shut off my brain. Sometimes I am thinking so quickly when I try to sleep that I actually get dizzy and light headed. I think about absolutely everything –…
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YWA Breath: What I learned doing 30 days of yoga
Before I get into this I am fully aware the yoga is one of those things that is unhelpfully recommended for people with both chronic illnesses and mental illness. I also know many people are sick of it. I am not here to tell you that yoga will solve all your problems or make your life easier, I am just here to tell you my experience of YWA Breath. So no pressure here. You know your own body better than me. But, for me personally, yoga has been a great help – a way for me to get the excercise my body needs without putting me completely out of action…
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New Year, New Me (Or Not)
This time last year I was writing about how I’ve been moving away from New Year’s resolutions and trying to just set goals and intentions instead. Looking back on these goals though I don’t think I managed to properly achieve any of them! However, with the state this year has been I don’t think I can be too hard on myself about that, as none of us could have predicted the turn things have taken. I have worked on some things this year though that I am hoping to continue into the next 12 months. I still stand by my view that New Year’s resolutions are not a way to…
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6 things to be grateful for from 2020
I am still in disbelief at the sheer madness that was 2020, and I am sure many of you are as well. It’s been completely unpredictable, messy, and just plain difficult. But as it is FINALLY over I am trying to spend some time looking for the good amongst the bad, and that’s where I came up with my list of things to be grateful for in 2020. This is absolutely not a ‘what I’ve achieved last year post’, as to be honest my greatest achievement was simply getting to the end of it in one piece. And if that’s all you’ve managed as well then please know that is…
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My Unhealthy Relationship With Food
Trigger warning: This blog post talks about my experience with the eating disorder Anorexia, and my unhealthy relationship with food. I was planning on writing this as a twitter thread, but the more I thought about it the bigger the thread got. In the end it was just too long to put on twitter. So as my return to blogging I thought it was a great way to ease myself back into things – or throw myself back into them! My goal for 2020 was to lose weight. We had 5 weddings planned, and I was just sick of feeling massive compared to all of our friends and family. At…
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25 Positive Affirmations for Anxiety
This isn’t the first time I have written about, and shared, positive affirmations with you. I truly believe in their power, and today I wanted to share with you my best positive affirmations for anxiety. Stating the obvious here but living with anxiety every day isn’t fun. In fact personally mine has become a hundred times worse during lockdown. And while the world around us has changed, as well as the level of support, being able to use self affirmations is something that remains constant. It’s NEVER going to change. They will ALWAYS be there for us. We can at least take some solace in that. I’m in no way…
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My Favourite Reads of This Year
I must admit, I’ve been really struggling with what to write about this week. My inspiration has flown out of me like a bird out of a cage, and I’ve just been a bit lost really. But when I find it hard to write, I read. So if I can’t think of what to write about I will talk about what others have written! This year I have really got back into reading. I don’t think I’ve enjoyed it this much since I was a child! I often find reading exacerbates my tiredness – my eyes start to burn and my arms ache from holding up the book (I really…
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Guest Post: How to cope with freelancer isolation
This weeks guest post is from Ashutosh from Refrens.com discussing an issue I think a lot of us have faced recently after being thrown into working from home. Freelancer isolation can affect all of us, and I hope you enjoy reading Ashutosh’s take on it as much as I did. On embarking their journey as a freelancer, one begins with a sense of being authorized and engaged. With earning the privilege of being their own boss, they are relieved from the pressure of performance evaluation. One of the main perks of being a freelancer is having the liberty to select whom they want to work with and getting the flexibility…
