Dr Devon Price, the author of Laziness Does Not Exist, has always gone above and beyond. Relentlessly productive, the social psychologist was the sort of person who got a small thrill when frantically checking things off their to-do list. “I am someone who was playing by the rules of society, which say that your worth is determined by…
Category: anxiety
Better Days Blog: Give Sunday night blues the boot
Hello Everyone I hope you have had a great weekend. I am ending the weekend with my Sunday film might in bed. This weeks film is Malevolent. This is a regular Sunday night occurrence for me. It helps me to relax at the end of the weekend. For many of my us, anxiety and dread…
Sleep Sabotage
Are you getting enough sleep? It seems to be a constant question in life. Knowing how much sleep you need seems to be a major learning curve for us too. For me its about 7.5 hours, which took me several months of practice and analysis in 2020 to figure out. Late nights can be a…
MIDWEEK: Blog and links roundup
Happy Wednesday. I am glad of a change in the weather at the moment. Winter can tough in many ways, less day light, cold weather and winter illnesses. Mix in a lockdown, a pandemic and other restrictions, on paper this looks like a very grim time to be alive. I could go in to details…
Better Days Blog: KitKat
Meet KitKat. She is nine years old and has been my cat since September 2015. She is a special needs cat and requires a lot of careful attention. She also has anxiety, which can exacerbate the situation too. That is something we have in common. Caring for KitKat can be very challenging at times, but…
MIDWEEK: Blog and News Round Up
So its Wednesday again, time for the midweek blog and round up. What does inclusion mean to you? That is a question I’ve been thinking about lately. It is not necessarily something that can easily be measured on a large scale. I feel its often that comes down to the individual, how they act and…
Is Sweating Good for You?
We all pretty much sweat, sometimes its exercise related, sometimes its the temperature and at other times it is about how we are feeling. I read a great article on this topic. “When you think about sweating, you probably think icky and sticky (and maybe a little smelly too). But sweating is a totally natural,…
Blog: The Anxiety Hangover
Its not very often I re-post a blog – I like to keep things fresh. But sometimes, it’s the right thing to do. I am reposting a blog from summer 2020 – its on the topic of the anxiety hangover. Many of you will not have read it as it is from a long time…
Blog: Time to talk
4 February, is Time to Talk day. So this blog is simply to highlight that day and talk about talking. Here is a direct link to the website before I do anything else: Time to Talk Day 2021 | Time To Change (time-to-change.org.uk) I want to include a quote from the home page “A small…
Blog: Warrior
Hello Happy Friday, the weekend is within smelling distance 😊 Next week is a time to talk day on 4 February – so I’ll be doing some articles and blogs around that topic next week. If anyone else has anything planned for a time to talk day, please could you get in touch with me?…
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