You Can’t Always Get What You Want
When this happened, I finally bowed to universe and stopped. Completely. Having already broken my elbow and had an iron count so low the numbers were negative, I couldn’t ignore what I was being told...
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Am I making New Year’s Resolutions? No. Too easy to fail at. How about we try Revolutions instead? Well, a small one, in the state of ME. When I decided to become a freelance marketing strategist at...
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Unwanted Connections
(image source) You know how much I love social media, particularly twitter. Connecting with people from around the world, accessing breaking news and broadening my horizons will never lose its appeal....
View ArticleConfidence is key
Recently, a couple of people told me that I am more much confident in real life than I appear to be on the blog or on social media. I smiled. Does this make me fake? Or good at concealing my racing...
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Coping The Best I Can
I have often talked about mental illness on my blog, so I feel very privileged that someone would this space to share their story. She would like to stay anonymous, but her bravery in telling her story...
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Share Your Story
Last week someone asked if they could post something anonymously on my blog. The person had a story to tell. Her mental health story. I have been open about my own struggles, here and here, so I...
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Mental Health, My Story ~ February
Welcome to the first in my new monthly series where I open my blog for an anonymous guest to share their mental health story. If you are affected by this story in any way, links to relevant mental...
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Mental Health, My Story ~ March
Welcome to Mental Health, My Story. where I open my blog for an anonymous guest to share their mental health story. If you are affected by this story in any way, links to relevant mental health...
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Waiting
I can sense it further in advance these days. Small shifts in my reactions to set backs. A sleepless night or two. The tweaks of anxiety. The rumbles of familiar feelings. I know what’s coming. image...
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Mental Health, My Story ~ April
Welcome to Mental Health, My Story, where I open my blog for an anonymous guest to share their mental health story. If you are affected by this story in any way, links to relevant mental health...
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Mindful in May. Pause for A Cause.
The worst aspects of my depression and anxiety are the negative voices that appear when I’m are already on a downward spiral. You know the ones, reminding you how worthless you are, how no one cares,...
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I Am Anxiety
The irony of being very anxious about attending the launch of an anxiety awareness campaign by beyondblue is not lost on me. Neither was the near-panic attack when I realised the event was on the 89th...
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Mental Health, My Story ~ June
Welcome to Mental Health, My Story, where I open my blog for an anonymous guest to share their mental health story. If you are affected by this story in any way, links to relevant mental health...
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My Baby is 9
Maybe it was the ease of your birth (safe at home), or the lack of post-natal depression this time round, but I fell so deeply in love with you, I flinched when other people wanted to hold you. My...
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To be honest with you
Things are great, they really are. But at the same time they are not. When the school holidays hit, the wheels began to wobble. I recognised what was happening and caught myself before they fell off...
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Things I would tell you: Tegan Churchill
Last week I wrote this where I talked about the need to improve mental health through improving how we look after ourselves. Many thanks to my guest today, Tegan, from Musings of the Misguided, who...
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This week I’m loving…
Lavender I’m lying, I love Lavender, every week. I have a spray, candles, even a cushion a friend made for me stuffed with lavender…call me nanna if you like, but it soothes me. In our front garden in...
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Things I would tell you: Israel Smith
Special thanks to my guest today, Israel Smith for having the courage to share his story and self-care tips. I was first diagnosed with depression about five months after the birth of my son. I had...
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Driving me crazy
During a recent therapy session the subject of my desire to control situations came up. Yes, control freak, that’s me. We talked about the whys, the wherefores and then the hows. Particularly whether...
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Things I would tell you ~ Yvonne Adele
Many thanks to my guest today, Yvonne Adele, for having the courage to share her story and self-care tips. Being a motivational speaker, I’m prone to the positive side of everything. This can be...
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