A wellness toolbox is a folder full of information about your mental health problems and coping strategies, to help in times of crisis.
Life With Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
If anxiety is the devil, I just want to hold him by the neck and shake the living daylights — or nightlights — out of him!
After 13 Years I Finally Have a Care Plan!
Why are we so averse to the idea that mental illnesses are real illnesses that can be categorised, compartmentalised and managed just like any illness?
Workplace Mental Health and Snow Day Stitching
Employees are human beings, not robots. Even if we don’t suffer from a mental health illness, our well-being can be affected by life events.
Time to Talk
Sometimes people who don’t suffer don’t understand. But If we support each other and show that it’s OK not to be OK we can break the stigma.
Not Enough Monsters: Call me Victor Frankenstein
The key to keeping the demons at bay is to build your very own art studio in your dark, lonely home. Create your own weapons against depression.
The Upward Spiral: A Great Read. How It’s Helping Me
Making tiny changes to the bad habits we fall into creates an upward spiral, as opposed to the downward spiral that is depression.
How to Create a Meditation Room
A clear space that you can dedicate to pure meditation and contemplation. A sacred space just for you and those who you want to invite inside.
What is Postpartum Depression? Symptoms & Treatments
Postpartum depression is the same as “normal” depression, “postpartum” just shows the time in your life you suffer from it, it’s no reflection on you as a mother
Getting back to what I love most….
The only way to describe how it feels when I’m powerlifting is this: it’s just me and the loaded bar. I don’t think about anything else.
This one is for you. You know who you are.
This one is for you. Your fight is my fight and your pain is my pain. I will help you find your way back to shore and you will never have to swim alone.
Challenging cognitive distortions – a guide for students
Redirecting cognitively distorted thoughts toward healthier alternative thoughts is challenging work, but offers great benefits.