My Quarterlife Crisis

As my 26th birthday appears on the horizon I feel myself becoming more and more despondent. You’re 20’s is made out to be the time of adventure and opportunity. Of backpacking across far and distant lands and meeting new people. I haven’t had a gap year and travelled the world. I haven’t even interrailed. I

My Journaling Adventure

My love of journaling is a relatively new obsession. Until Coronavirus my view of journaling was that it was a waste of time, a chore and something that would actually just make me worse rather than better. How wrong I was! Over the last 12-15 months my mental health plummeted. Journaling and medication has been

3 ways I am trying to be more assertive

I don’t know about you but something I really struggle with is standing up for myself appropriately, be more assertive (big word). I know myself well by now that sometimes I can come across as a little ‘bolchy’ as my mum calls it. Because of this I tend to lie down and roll over when

Why is it important to look after a mental health?

A simple question, yet one I have found many find difficult to answer. As part of Children’s mental health week this week I took to my work to ask staff and students why Mental Health week is important. The answers were brilliant, and I am very proud of their responses, but every single person struggled.

Dealing with Grief

On October 7th 2020 I lost my Nanna to a stroke. Less than 6 months later on the 29th January 2021 I lost my 2nd best friend. I took Sage my very special cat to the vet for a scan. She never came home. At 8 weeks old Sage was hit by a car. She

Toxic Positivity

It sounds like a bit of an oxymoron. How can being positive be toxic? Toxic positivity as defines by the Psychology Group “the excessive and ineffective overgeneralisation of a happy state across all situations… result[ing] in the denial…and invalidation of the authentic emotional experience”. In other words the papering over of how people feel instead

What are my core values?

Values- it’s not something we think about often but as my colleague sat me down to watch an episode of Hey Duggee today about Philosophy it got me thinking. What are my core values and how do they shape how I live my life? I’ll do this one at a time. To be authentic For

How to practice gratitude.

We are constantly surrounded by people asking us, what are you grateful for, and we know that practicing gratitude has incredible effects, from improving our mental health and boosting our relationships with others and ourselves. But what does it actually mean to be grateful and how do we do it? The dictionary definition of gratitude

Top 10 of My Feel Good Songs

We all know that music makes us feel certain ways. Well here are my top 10 feel good tunes in no particular order. What are yours? For the first time: Best Coast That’s not my name: The Ting Tings That don’t impress me much: HAIM Go your own way: Fleetwood Mac Shield and the sword:

Time to Talk 2021

I get up, in the dark and the cold and the wet, and every morning dread another day like the one before. Meandering through the snow and ice to work. Much like I do every winter. However, this year is different. It’s different for everyone – that bit is important to remember. When I’m finished