Tag: mental health
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Top Ten Tips to Make Decision Making EASY.
We all struggle with making decisions sometimes. For some of us it can be really stressful. I have wracked my brain to pull out all my decision making tools in the hopes it can help us master our own happiness. Here they are… Reduce the Number of Decisions. There is lots of research that suggests…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: Foods Embrace
With the blog talking about emotional eating this week I decide to pen a poem about food. Hope your enjoy. Foods Embrace Bring me to your embrace.Take me slowly from this place. Let me slip, into your divine.Show me that the world is mine. Sooth my aches and take my pain,And I will hold you…
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Five top tips to stop Eating your way through emotions.
If you are reading this perhaps like me you know you are an emotional eater. Or maybe you are like some of my friends who simply don’t understand how or why we let emotions drive our eating habits. So let’s start with a bit of a 101 on emotional eating. Why do people emotionally eat?…
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Poetry and prose to ignite the soul: I see you happy
I see you there, behind that cloak of doubt.Making out your fine and shutting the world out. I see you there, beneath those swathes of pain.Holding it together, so you can make it through the day. I see you there, drowning in their expectations.Giving of yourself, with no chance of salvation. I see there warn…
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Seven Things to be Mindful of: Social Media Groups
Today’s blog was prompted by a recent experience of a family member. I will explain a little more at the end of this piece. Reflecting on this event I started to think about the hazards of social media groups aimed at supporting people with mental health. There are of course lots of benefits to groups.…
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Into the Depths.
I watched you slip away,behind those steely eyes.Dragged into that other place,where hope has gone to die. I tried to be your buoy.To hold you up for air.But the murky depths,dragged you still further to despair. I had to let you slip,beneath the icy waves.For if I held more tightly,we would both have meet our…
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Why I Stopped Looking Forward to the End of Lockdown.
Why I Stopped Looking Forward to the End of Lockdown. And when I did these things I quadrupled my happiness!
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Covid is harming our children just not in the way we see.
If Covid happened 27years ago I don’t think I would have survived and not because of Covid. 27 years ago I was living at home with my mum, dad, little sister and one of my older brothers. My mum was really struggling with her mental health. She really was not coping well. At her worst…
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Do you aspire to be a heads up kind of person?
Are you a head down or a head up walker? I found myself watching people out of my living room window today as they walked by tackling their lockdown daily exercise. I noticed there appeared to predominately be two types of walkers. Those with their gaze set firmly on the floor in front of them…
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Why success and failure are not exclusive.
Why success and failure are not exclusive and we should celebrate our failures.
Rowan Aderyn 