In last week’s post, I wrote about the inner critic and why it’s important to get to know yours. I’ve put together some writing exercises and prompts that I’ve used in the past to help me in the process of paying closer attention to…
What if I were to tell you about an insidious being that comes to you in the night and whispers hurtful things to you as you sleep? You’re not fully aware that it’s there, but you’re absorbing the awful messages it delivers to you,…
2020 hasn’t been easy. Over the last six months, it has felt like the news cycle has been hitting us over the head repeatedly with a lead brick, one negative headline after the other. From the early days of COVID-19, through to the bush fires…
Over the past two weeks I’ve been having a difficult time with fear. I’m in the process of making some fairly big life decisions, which have been long overdue and will lead me down some unexplored paths. Since the day that I made one…
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Dear Me: Writing a letter of self-compassion to yourself
You probably won’t be surprised if I tell you that the writing process has helped me immensely throughout my journey to better mental health – I am a writer, after all. For example, just after my breakup four years ago, I signed up for…
I used to drink so much that, at times, I’d black out. If you’ve been through this before, you’ll know how awful it is to wake up and find that half of the previous night has seemingly been erased from your memory. A recent…
One of the many breakthroughs I made in my journey to better mental health was finally having the ability to recognise the onset of a depressive episode. It was surprisingly simple and staring me in the face all along, but when you don’t know…
During my difficult breakup, I started pinning inspirational quotes on Pinterest every morning as part of my ‘self-care rituals.’ Here’s an assortment of the things that I saved at the time: “The comeback is stronger than the setback.” “What if you simply devoted this…
I don’t say this lightly, but yoga has ‘saved’ me many times. I first dabbled in yoga when I was at university. The student gym had a number of classes on offer and yoga was one of them. I remember feeling quite smug as…