I always assumed that there was a ‘recovered’. That once you got better from a mental health illness, that that was IT. You were a normal person. You didn’t have to worry about it again. You could just do WHATEVER THE BLOODY HELL YOU WANTED. Work 40 plus hours a week. Drink as much as…
Tag: wellness
Are you exercising for JOY or for PUNISHMENT? – Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Chickpea Cookie Dough
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…
Go BRAVELY – Mexican Chilli Chocolate Zoats
I have a frame that sits on my windowsill. It greets me when I wake each morning. In this frame is a postcard my Mum gave me. She gave me this postcard when I moved to London when I was 19 years old. I’d got a place on a part time foundation acting course at…
What is JOY?
Today I want to talk to you about …. JOY. Not me! The concept of JOY. What is JOY? And what is the difference between HAPPINESS and JOY? Being called JOY can often NOT be a JOY. When I was a kid, being badly bullied, I wasn’t particularly happy. (No shit, sherlock) A boy in…
You are not an IMPOSTOR – Blackberry and Thyme Oatmeal
Imposter Syndrome A psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistant internalized fear of being exposed as a ‘fraud’. A feeling of being out of place. For any of my readers feeling like this… You are not alone. You deserve to take up space. You belong. I have persistently had…
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 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…
No Food is EVIL – Not So Secret Salted Caramel
What would you FEED your ‘child self’? If you were to walk around daily with the little, vulnerable child version of you… What WORDS would you feed yourself? What IMAGES would you feed yourself? What FOOD would you feed yourself? Would you tell the child version of you that they were FAT and didn’t deserve…
Let them eat CAKE – Coffee and Walnut Cake Oatmeal
Here is a funny story about cake. And as a lot of funny stories begin, I’m going to start it with the sentence…. ‘When I was severely anorexic….’ (Hilarious right? No but seriously stay with me) I was about to collapse and be taken into hospital for the second time but before that it was…
Joyfull Joy 