Category: wellbeing
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Suicide Prevention Day. My Experience of Suicide.
It is Suicide Prevention Day today so I thought I would share a bit about my experiences of Suicide. Fair warning guys I think this blog is a hard read. Suicide is such a difficult and heart breaking subject. I feel like it is important to talk about it. And I recently learnt on the…
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A process to make doing the right thing for you easier.
WHY IS THE RIGHT THING ALWAYS SO HARD AND THE WRONG THING ALWAYS SO EASY? Take last night yes it had been a long day in work but instead of motivating myself to do something good for me that I enjoy I was stuck in a half way house of watching something on the sofa…
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Slim for happiness. My latest crazy idea to benefit my mental health and others.
Hey all as you may know I am a massive mental health activist. I won’t bore more tonight with my story as you know mental health has been a long standing thread throughout my life. This time around I had an idea to help support my mental health and benefit Mind (one of the big…
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Have I always had PTSD? Struggling with the idea that I am now defined by something I want to be rid of, but for which there is no cure.
Have I always had PTSD? Struggling with the idea that I am now defined by something I want to be rid of, but for which there is no cure.
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How I positively sign post my mental health to drive happy days. Stop, Ready, Go.
As you know from a lot of my blogs, I put effort into maintaining a good state of mental health. Most days there is a certain rhythm and set things I do to support this. Having daily activities like meditation or practising gratitude and weekly tasks like exercising three times a week. I have over…
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Learn to help someone in a positive constructive way, whilst empowering them.
This week I thought I would write about one of the lessons I have learnt over the years supporting people with their own mental health challenges and it is a bit of a cautionary tail. That ultimately warns against the risk of taking too much on for someone and in the process deskilling them. I…
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To Forgive is NOT to forget, but it is the thrive.
This is one of the pieces I am most proud of. Given that I recently wrote about knowing your self-worth I wondered if forgiveness would be a natural next topic. I certainly know for me forgiving myself was a significant barrier to beginning to see my self-worth. Until I wrote this I hadn’t realised what…
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You are worth more than you know.
How much do you value yourself? I really didnt have any self worth until I chance meeting with a stranger on a bus. Then within months my life shifted. And although I am still learning how to see the value in me, I have certainly found a few good tools to help.
Rowan Aderyn 