IWD 2023

The 8th of March is International Women Day but it feels like this is something I've been celebrating in the days leading up to it. On Mondays I help to facilitate an 18+ women’s group, this week we spent our session starting a collage using magazine pieces and poetry from zines that have been created…

healing your inner child

So there's a lot of talk recently about the value of acknowledging and looking after the "child" version of you. It's mostly focused on reminding yourself to sometimes provide your basic needs and offer some gentle care and understanding in the same way you would with a small child. Ultimately we as humans are very…

Be the change (and have a little patience with it)

So, a couple months ago I made a massive change in my job role and ultimately my career. I am trained as a mental health nurse and had spent the first year of qualifying in an acute young people’s unit, I had moved house to be closer to the hospital and gotten really excited at…

soothing the soul

so my anxiety has picked up recently this year due to changes in life as it tends to do. Sometimes your body can pick up on your struggles even when you think your mind has accepted it. Sometimes you can have endless complicated ways of calming yourself down but you have to go back to…

third year!!

So here we go! I'm about to start my third and final year at university. I hate to say the very common thing of "omg you won't believe how fast time goes" but it's scarily accurate. I managed to survive the dreaded first year of unexciting halls, antisocial flatmates (myself included), very minimal friends, joined…

some mysteries of life

In 2016 my granddad went on holiday to Greece and disappeared. He left his hotel one morning and just never returned. No idea where he had gone. The police couldn't find him on the small island, no reports of him since. This is not about a conspiracy theory, this about someones life and the pain…

a mental health nurse with mental health issues

Now then let me start this post by explaining that we all have mental health. It's basically how you feel and your thought patterns which then affects your behaviour. Some people have good mental health days, some have bad mental health days and some people have mental illness. September 2018:I have never been formally diagnosed…

favourite films

the ultimate question. and the answer is that I don't have one. I genuinely can't choose one. I've had to take out "film lover" from my tinder bio because so many people ask this predictable and frankly boring question. I refuse to be judged solely on my choice. Also I think this question needs to…

Jigsaw – relationships and life

!! This is not me attacking anyones views on dating or their personal relationship I'm just having a rant and applying it my own experiences, I'm not telling you how to live your life just how I'm figuring out how to live mine !! Before or after reading this I highly recommend you go watch…

2018 in review

So I'm going to be completely honest that most of this year is a blur to me and I did have to go through my photos and calender to try to remember what I've done. Yay for a bad memory. I started 2018 with purple hair in a relationship doing my first year at uni,…