Last week during a conversation with a lady who has recently embraced Body Positivity, she told me she had booked a naked photoshoot to celebrate her new found confidence. “Oh wow, I could never do that!” I had replied, literally shuddering at the thought, and she had looked at me, with a sympathetic smile and…
With it being Mental Health Awareness week I thought it was a good time to finally take the plunge and say something I should have said to you decades ago…. I’m sorry. I appreciate that sorry doesn’t really cut it when it comes to all I have done, but it’s all I’ve got, even after…
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’ve had counselling pretty much my whole adult life. I am a huge advocate for therapy of any kind, and genuinely believe that I would not be the person I am. today without that support, guidance, and vital coping strategies I have learned along the way. Therapy…
I’m struggling with social media right now, in the same way that I do every January. I’m sick of seeing the word diet everywhere I look, of opening a magazine and seeing the latest celeb “flaunting” a 30lb weight loss, of turning on the TV and watching another segment on how to lose a stone…
Over the last twenty years, I have seen countless therapists, counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists, and I have taken something from every single one of those appointments, good and bad. Sometimes I have come away feeling more positive, other times more negative, and yet they all impacted on my life in some way, and looking back…
I have shared countless times before how, from a young age, I have struggled with my mental health. It wasn’t until the age of 18 when it manifested into something which was no longer within my control and over the following decade I found myself in a very low place, battling a whole range of…