Mental Health
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The layers between us – Phones, connection, choice, and curated lives…
Our engagements are no longer being led by our base feelings, instincts, or preferences, and even they themselves are being perpetually modified by what is fed to us. Re-curated each day by the endlessly morphing algorithms of our life feeds.… Continue reading
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The Joy of January – why we should embrace the deep winter dark…
The dark invites us to fold inwards, to give ourselves time and grace for recovery and reflection, hunkered sleepily in a warm moment before the axis turns again. But January also holds a mystical sense – a brooding thrall from… Continue reading
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New year nurture – re-imagining our resolutions
The turning of the year is a crux, a mental turnstile…nature’s inertia pulls us to look inwards, allow ourselves acceptance, reflection, inspiration, from the stripped bare world… Continue reading
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Don’t let the Twelfth Night bells end! Why January is the best of Christmas…
To anyone else sitting amongst the Blackpool illuminations while every neighbour’s windowsill now displays a single well- polished bonsai tree: I see you….and I salute you. Continue reading
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10 everyday ways to fight depression…
People call it the black dog. I think of depression more as a haunted Victorian governess who has been repeatedly washed on an old sock cycle. Continue reading
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Pack hard with a vengeance…The Action Epic of ADHD and neurodiverse holiday stress…
The pinnacle of the year… That coveted prize of a well earned holiday… Oh my poor dears, if only it were so simple… At exactly 2.45pm on the last day of the school term, I placed a cup of tea… Continue reading
