Category Archives: Mental Health

A little off topic

Happy New Year… Can I still say that when we are more than half way through the month? Anyway, I hope you had a lovely Christmas and it wasn’t too difficult to navigate. Only a few weeks in but lots going on in my head at the moment, not exactly related to my anxiety, yet, …

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Ho ho ho

Merry Christmas… If you have been following my blogs over the years (almost 7 years!) you will know I tend to write a blog around this time of year, either Christmas or New Year. I will likely be saying some of the same things but it can be a difficult time of year for people …

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Eat, Sleep, Anxiety, Repeat

OK so not quite… Trying to think of what to call a blog post feels important, this just sprung to mind, its not like that every day for which I am very grateful as some people do face this, but it is a frustrating cycle when a few things crop up. I did google the …

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Perspective and Perception

Words… These words have been occurring in my thoughts quite a bit recently in many aspects of life related to all sorts of conversations. When I thought about them even more they have such a huge impact on our daily lives, whether it be our own perspective and perception forming our thoughts and therefore impacting …

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Changing times

A couple of things… So before I start with the main bit of my blog post there are just two things I wanted to cover, the first is that I realise there is so much info, comments, opinions, recommendations out there at the moment about coronavirus, I’m not writing this just to add to it, …

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University Mental Health Day

Mental Health and work… I think when it comes to work and talking about your mental health it can be a tricky one, experiences for people can vary so much depending on where they work or even within the same company but with different managers.  For me in the early days I certainly didn’t speak …

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Reflections

Ok maybe it wasn’t the last blog… So I did say my last post back in May would be the last and that was the way I intended it to be, just this time of year is a funny one isn’t it, no longer Christmas, not quite New Year, no idea what day it is! …

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Time To Set Sail

10 Sleeps to go… Some time ago in a previous blog post I shared that I had booked to go on a cruise, not just any cruise but a Caribbean Cruise.  This was probably a while ago now as it has been booked for 20 months! Well its come round very quick and we are now …

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What a week

My new job… So my last blog post was all about the big change coming up, starting a new job, in a new team, in a new location and how I was feeling about that. As that last week came to a close I had a wonderful send off from my colleagues, my friends; lovely …

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New Year, New Beginnings

Happy New Year… I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a great start to the New Year.  It was a lovely time here, very relaxing, not too much planned once we got to Christmas, really great to have some downtime. I talked about ‘surviving’ the festive period with the pre-Christmas celebrations, and as …

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