Mental Wellness Tip #1

No, I won't start with exercise...

Get out into nature!



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There is evidence to show that when you get out into contact with nature, whether it be a pet,

New Series: Food for Mood Monday

"Let your Foods be your medicines, and your medicines your food." Hippocrates c.460 - 377 BC Father of Modern Medicine

Sweet, Sweet Sugar...  

Welcome to the first in the series of Food for Mood Monday.  This is a long one so go get a coffee before you get comfy!

I've said before that there is a direct link between sugar and depression.  After some further research, I think I will reword this to there is a direct link between Mood and blood sugar balance.  However people with depression are especially vulnerable to sugar's evil power.

Let's face it, sugar yeilds quite a strong power over us.  All the good stuff is loaded with sugar - cake, ice cream, custard, tim tams, snakes, red skins... you get my drift!  

Let us give thanks!

Hi all!  I am a little late today, but still as thankful as ever :)

As the clock slowly approached knock off time at work this afternoon I realised that I had forgotten where I had parked my car today - fa-reak out!!!  Was a parking ticket awaiting me on my windscreen?  Would I

Fraud Alert!

Something that has always come up in my sessions either with my GP, counsellor or psychologist has been how much I feel like a fraud.  When I am feeling quite low, I just always feel like a fraud, like I am looking back at someone else, not me, getting things done, achieving...

Can anyone else relate?

Despite the crazy bits...

It's another Thankful Thursday my friends and I can't wait to tell you about my gratitude this week!

It's light and lovely, a little bit cheesy with a dash of frustration and ride in a lift thrown in....

This week I am thankful for (drum roll please!) all of yesterday!  Yes folks, Wednesday - and all that was in it!

Snap Out of it!

"He needs to just snap out of it and get his shit together!  We've all got problems..." She said.

"Well...." pause to gather thoughts, "well, if it is depression he is struggling with, then it isn't that easy..." I said.

"I've got to wonder about that.  He won't help himself, he just keeps going back to the same problem.  I mean, pu-leaze just pull yourself together already."  She finished. 

I just looked back at her in shock.  What, was she looking for me to agree with her?   

Thankfully I didn't have a chance to find out because we were then interrupted by another customer wanting to buy something I didn't have in stock.

What a week...

So this week, I was going to write about the things people say to people with depression....  you know like the ever helpful "Snap out of it!"  You get my point! 

Anyway, all that has gone out the window this week, as did my usual "Thankful Thursday" post...

I will start with "Thankful Thursday".  I have been wracking my brain since yesterday morning and I couldn't think of one single thing I was grateful for this week.  I have had a hard week, I feel completely drained but I still feel blessed (most of the time!) with the life that I have.  There is always something to be grateful for,