Posts about self care, recovery and self love. How to practice self care at home and how to get the most from your self care routine. Learn about building your confidence and loving yourself. Basics of taking care of yourself at home. Managing anxiety, stress, depression and trauma.
Affiliate links | We don’t often talk about how hard basic self care is to stay on top of when you’re struggling with your mental health, but I have a hunch it would help make us all feel a little less rubbish if we did. Whenever I have a period of depression, I struggle to … Read more
Affiliate Links | I’ve included some links in this post to the products I’ve been using every day recently. They’re all products that I own (or the closest match I could find) and they’ve been helping me feel a bit better lately. If you click the link, you’ll be taken to a third party website … Read more
When you have frequent bad days that make life harder to manage, it can feel like there is a lot of pressure to make your good days count. In the past I’ve been guilty of overdoing it on the good days and making the bad days even harder for myself. These days I try to … Read more
Those of your with PTSD, sensory processing disorders or other conditions that make it difficult for you to cope with certain sounds will know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed by every day noise. This post is a collection of 21 different free ambient sounds, available online, that could help you relax, focus or get … Read more
One of the biggest excuses I make as to why I haven’t done anything kind for myself on any given day is “I haven’t had the time”. In reality, not taking care of ourselves has a lot more to do with low self esteem and poor mental health than it does with our schedule. But, … Read more
Here’s a list of over 250 digital mental health resources and places to go for self help. There are a bunch of different kinds of resources on this list, including counselling services, information about mental health, crisis lines, self care guides, apps that support your mental health and charities who offer solutions and support to … Read more
Affiliate links| One of the many things PTSD has stolen from me is reading. I simply don’t have the ability to focus for long enough to finish a book. It’s one of the reasons that blogs (both my own and other bloggers’) have become so important to me. When I do try to read a … Read more
Sometimes anxiety gets the better of us – even if you aren’t living with an anxiety disorder, you will all have experienced anxiety as an emotion AND guess what?! That’s perfectly normal. Anxiety is an instinctive and important response to danger that was once a key part of survival and is pretty handy today. So … Read more
As someone who has struggled with leaving the house since having PTSD, I’ve always wanted to write this post. Leaving the house can be a logistical or emotional nightmare for so many of us and it takes a huge toll on our lives; impacting our ability to socialise, explore and feel connected to the wider … Read more
For many of us, myself included, social media has provided an outlet for self expression. At times when I felt I had nowhere else to turn, Twitter was somewhere I could turn to and talk openly about my mental health. Living with mental illness can feel very lonely. For me, opening up online has helped … Read more