Rebuilding Your Life After a Mental Health Crisis: What No-one Tells You
No-one gives you a guidebook on how to rebuild your life after a mental health crisis. You’re just expected to get on with it. To pick up the pieces and carry on. Even though your identity has been shaken to its core and everything feels like it has come crashing down around you…
How To Respond To Intrusive Thoughts: A 7-Step Guide
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts that pop into our minds and make us feel distressed, upset or uncomfortable. The nature of these vary, but they can be violent, distressing, or a recurring fear that you might say or do something…
Reminders for Mental Health Recovery
Mental health recovery is hard. No matter what you are struggling with, recovery is messy, it’s challenging and the pain can feel never-ending. I wanted to share some reminders with you today. I hope that something here…
Words of Hope
I have had a difficult couple of months due to being unwell. But, as usual, I’ve found comfort in words - be those from books (check out my Goodreads for my book reviews!), poetry or quotes…
Moving Through an OCD Blip: Reflections and Reminders
One of the things about living with OCD is that you never know when it is going to strike. I know that it hits most when I am stressed, tired or feeling low. I expected it when I lost my dog Coco in October, and moved through it. I was NOT expecting a new OCD theme to hit three and a bit weeks ago. I almost forget the pain of OCD until it returns…