• 5 reasons to love yourself
    Blog,  Mental Health,  Self-Care

    Why should you love yourself more?

    We live in a world where self confidence and self esteem are generally dramatically low. Where we are taught from a young age that you should always be improving yourself, and that loving yourself is rude or vain. Well I’m here to break those walls down. After years of hating basically everything about myself, and living with that intense negativity, I have decided its time to start appreciating myself for who I am. Because there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. And I believe you should do that too. You deserve that love, you deserve that happiness, and you deserve to not spend every single day hating on yourself for things…

  • Ditching New Year's resolutions
    Blog,  Chronic Illness,  Mental Health,  Self-Care

    Why I’m Ditching New Year’s Resolutions

    First of all, Happy New Year (and decade) to all you lovely people. I hope it brings you nothing but joy and happiness, and health. I’m here to talk to you about a very popular part of this time of year – New Year’s Resolutions. This post was maybe a better idea for before we’d rung in the New Year, but I needed a break with all the celebrations that were going on, so it wasn’t ready until now. New year’s resolutions are so popular, and I have nothing against anyone who has decided to make some this year (if you have please do share them in the comments below),…

  • Blog,  Mental Health,  Self-Care

    5 self-care questions to ask yourself today.

    It’s officially April! I thought what better way to kick off the month than by reflecting on my own goals, thoughts and feelings going forward. I have been feeling very uninspired of late, so instead of thinking of a whole topic to blog about I have decided to answer some important self-care questions that could help to shape this new month, and season in my life. I found these questions when I was looking at self-care on pinterest. I can’t take credit for coming up with them, I can only take credit for my answers. The brain behind them is the lovely Anne over at Simplicity Avenue. You can view…