I love running. I hate running. Make your mind up, Joy. I started running when I was recovering from my worst relapse of anorexia. I had started to gain weight and was getting more ‘well’. I downloaded the NHS Couch to 5k app (which I highly recommend). I started off running with walking intervals and…
Tag: mental health awareness
7 lessons my mother taught me
I appreciate it’s Mother’s Day and your social media will be in-fluxed with backstories and essays of how amazing people’s mothers are. And it’s important that we express the LOVE and APPRECIATION we feel for fantastic people in our lives. For some people this is an incredibly difficult day, due to various different reasons. I’m…
Why exercise and healthy eating aren’t EVERYTHING…
Healthy eating and exercise are not EVERYTHING. They are important but your life should not be RULED by them. They should not be the PUNISHING DOCTRINE you live by. You should live by JOY. You should live by BALANCE. You should live by LOVE. Once upon a time, there was a girl who wanted the…
Winter will pass and SPRING will come AGAIN… – Gingerbread Oatmeal
Today is the first day of SPRING! Huzzah! Never one to conform with the norm, my body has decided to go into HIBERNATION! I woke up on Tuesday morning with a high fever, swollen and painful throat and a migraine. Cut to yesterday and I was diagnosed with Tonsillitis, given antibiotics and signed off work…
Apologies to ANYONE I’ve ever GHOSTED on Tinder – Red Velvet Oatmeal
Dating is SCARY. One of my favourite books which involves a romance is ….Jane Eyre. So well balanced. Rochester locks his mentally ill wife in the attic. He tries to marry Jane, lying to her the whole time. She leaves. Eventually she comes back to him and they marry, after he is blind and severely…
BINGE watch, BINGE eat, BINGE drink, REPEAT – Super Sexy Salted Caramel Sauce.
I had a food binge. A mindless food binge. I wasn’t even tasting the food. I just wanted all of the chocolate and sugar in my mouth. Nothing would fill the deep hunger within me. The empty hole that would never be full. Barely chewing. Just cramming it in my mouth and swallowing it down….
Why you should NEVER wait for your REAL LIFE to BEGIN – Mindful Chocolate Orange Porridge
Yesterday when swinging on the swings in a children’s playground, (YES YOU READ RIGHT ) a song came into my head… ‘And you say, just be here now Forget about the past, your mask is wearing thin Just let me throw one more dice I know that I can win I’m waiting for my real…
My No Counting Calories Experiment – PBJ Oats
Science Experiment Day 7: Objective: To stop counting calories, eat when I’m hungry and need energy. To live life to it’s fullest, eat food to it’s fullest and love to my fullest. Also burgers. And salted caramel. Is that an objective? I don’t care. IT IS NOW! The problem with being ‘recovered’ is that your…
Why it’s OKAY to HAVE NO IDEA what you are DOING – Raspberry and Lime Cacao Zoats.
I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what I’m doing. I have NO IDEA what I’m doing with my life. And when it comes to a lot of things I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING. With dating. With work. With friends. With writing. With this blog. And do you know what? That is completely OKAY. I…
How to make FRIENDS as an ADULT – Cherry Bakewell Oats
Making friends can be SCARY. In childhood days, it was SO MUCH easier. When we happily toddled over to other children, No introductions needed, And started to squelch and play in the mud. Then for whatever MULTITUDE of reasons, fear and doubt enters our lives. And making friends as an adult can be TERRIFYING. After…
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