I know what you’re thinking, she’s finally lost it as she’s writing a blog about the healing nature of coffee shops when you feel lonely. But a staggering realisation I’ve had in 2020 (one of many I assure you) is that cafes really help me diffuse my loneliness or get out of a creative funk. […]
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Even in 2020, the year of the Australian bush fires, Coronavirus, police brutality against black men and women including the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Black Lives Matter, Biden’s win, Trump’s incapacity to concede, scrambling together a Brexit deal, why are celebrities weight loss and gain still being given a headline? And more […]
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As if by some Halloween nightmare, the coronavirus has come back to haunt us with a second lockdown. And whilst it was inevitable to some extent, it has left us all feeling disheartened at the delay and disruption of moving forward in this pandemic. Second lockdown brings it’s own challenges. This time round we have […]
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I don’t know about you but I have been my worst critic throughout my life and fallen into patterns of negative self-talk about how I look, what I’m doing and who I am. Throughout my teenage years especially I was horrible to myself. I’m not perfect and I’m sure I was horrible to other people […]
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I watched Grey’s Anatomy during lockdown and when George’s Dad dies, Christina comes to find him and says: “There’s a club. A dead Dad’s club. And you can’t be in it till you’re in it. You can try to understand, you can sympathize. But until you feel that loss…” you don’t know how it feels. […]
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When you’re having a bad day with your mental health it is hard to bring yourself out of that mood and mindset. After years of practice, I’ve thankfully managed to figure out a bank of things I can rely on to lift me out of that headspace. As the thing is while we want to […]
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My anxiety returned this weekend with a vengeance. I’ve been quite lucky that throughout the pandemic I’ve had a routine, regular work and I’ve been healthy as have my family. But everything feels a bit more uncertain now; I’m feeling anxious due to some news we had last week at work. When I feel anxious […]
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When you’re a kid, you have this vision of your life. It’s quite a simple, generic vision that probably looks similar to your parent’s milestones in their twenties. For me that was go to university, meet the love of your life, move in, get a stable job, buy a house, have kids. There may have […]
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I’ve often wondered if you can ever fully overcome depression. At the age of 19 I was formally diagnosed with depression and told I’d been depressed for around four years. It wasn’t a surprise, it was reassuring in all honesty, as it confirmed that there wasn’t anything inherently wrong with me. I was depressed and […]
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