Monday morning! Is it blues or motivation? Growing up Monday mornings were often meet with the blues. After a weekend off, the last thing I wanted to do was head off to a job I disliked. For most of us, a job was just a job that paid the bills …
It has been an emotional week, EMOTIONAL in capitals!! At one point I wondered if I was living or dreaming. I couldn’t breathe. I wanted it to be a dream and yet it was real and I was living it. Regret, fear, dreed, anxiety, sad. It was ok feeling all …
So last week I launched my podcast The Elephant In The Room – Navigating A Lifetime Of Emotion, the podcast that helps you manage your emotions. I have taken the lessons learnt during the 35 years I spent in depression, plus the last 9 years of overcoming depression and put …
I’m going out on a limb here and really exposing myself, but I have just realised for the past number of years, I have been living in what some call organised chaos. I’m not sure how I thrived and how I stayed sane, but having stepped away for a while …
Have you ever made a decision, then found yourself going back on it just a tiny bit, all the while convincing yourself that somehow a tiny bit is not quite the same as going back on it all together? Yes? Then you will understand the liberation and apprehension of finally …
I’ve been trying to write this blog for over 3 weeks now, and its delay has not been down to procrastination, but rather the universe’s way of saying “Ok, let’s see what you’re made of” The past 3 weeks have been trying, tiring and irritating. In the past I allowed …
It’s working! After years of hoping, praying, and in more recent years putting in the work, my brain is finally working for me and not against me. For the past six months, I have relentlessly been working on overcoming some major stumbling blocks of my mindset in relation to motivation, …
In the days that led to the close of 2019, almost every post of social media was filled with people declaring that 2020, was the going to be their year. We were entering a new decade, a new year. For me, it was a struggle trying to define my 2020 …
A lot can happen in seven weeks, a lot has happened in seven weeks. I lost all sense of the days, weeks, and months when we went into lockdown. While many said it seemed as if all their days were rolling into one, I took very little notice, so I …