If you broke your leg you’d talk about it right? See a doctor, get some rest, take it easy. Well mental health is the same. Talking about it has always made it less overwhelming and isolating for me. Take comfort in we’re all imperfect and just doing our best. Be kind.
On World Mental Health Day I started thinking about how lucky I am to live in a time when mental health is considered to be as important as physical health. Rather than it being treated as a taboo subject or a “it’s-all-in-your-head-get-over-it” problem that mental health sufferers have faced in the past. Thank you for […]
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Hello anxiety, my unwelcome friend. How delightful you’re visiting again said no one ever. Anxiety is an invisible part of our lives that may control us. But who’s choice is it when anxiety is in control? Yours. I struggle with this, as I suffer with anxiety now and again, and during the moments where I […]
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The reality of living in an instant society is that we live in the age of fad diets, quick fixes, instant messenger, social networking, 24/7 live news updates. Everything we want to know, do, see, read, be, we are told we can instantly have. This is ingrained in us; text that person now to see […]
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I decided to escape from York for a bit and just go on a drive. Rather than turn around the further I got, I continued on until I reached Scarborough. I always felt better near the sea. There is something very therapeutic about the sea – it’s motion, the smell, how it sound. It always […]
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Sue Ryder run a project called, Sew Many Memories, where you turn your loved ones clothes into a patchwork quilt. Almost three years ago my Dad passed away from cancer at Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice (I’ve spoken about this more here). Since then his clothes have sat comfortably in his drawers, apart from the odd […]
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I always say I love Instagram… which is true. I love scrolling through all the types of photographs; artsy, food, nature, creative, motivational, as well as seeing what my friends and family are up to. Yet sometimes it makes me feel worse. If I see a photo of so and so having a great time with […]
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It seems like a lifetime ago that my brother and I recorded a promotional video for Sue Ryder’s new hospice appeal, Thorpe Hall, that asked ‘What will you do?’ Our experience at Thorpe Hall seems both distant and near – it’s one of those periods in your life that you can recall with great clarity, […]
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The C word – Cancer – is something that unfortunately everyone is touched by it at some point in their life. For me, it was my Dad, my hero, 1/4 of the family team. It’s two years since he passed away and three years since he was diagnosed with brain cancer, but anyone who’s bereaved […]
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