Food & Mood: Can alcohol help depression?

Oh dear, it is not looking good for my good friend Vino...


I wish I could find good things to say about mixing alcohol and depression, but frankly, there is nothing out there I can spin to make the response the one we are all looking for!

Art of Gratitude...all the talented, crafty ones out there!

Just as I have changed Food & Mood Monday to Tuesday, I am going to change Thankful Thursdays over to Art of Gratitude - I now wish to be grateful whenever the feeling pleases me! 

So.....
now that we have an official diagnosis for my DS of ADD and I have realised that I am going to have to be more oganised and structured than I ever was before.

Seriously. So. Organised.

Food & Mood: Coffee... it makes ME happy!



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Coffee.

Mmmmmm, coffee.

Does it help or hinder our depression?  Do we really care when it comes to.....mmmmmmm coffee...?

Thankful Thurday...making progress!

Although these posts don’t get read as much as the others on my blog, this has become one of my favourite days of the week!  Personally I get to think about my week and be grateful for my blessings – it’s fabulous therapy for me!  It keeps me grounded and reminds me to keep working on myself so that I don’t slip back into the hole….

Leibster Award

The lovely Claudia from Little Cottage Big Life tagged me yesterday for a Leibster Award!  Being fairly new to the blogging world, I had read something about it somewhere once before but I didn't know what was involved, until I was tagged. 

Food and Mood Monday - Magnesium me baby!

Little ol' magnesium.  Until doing research for this post, I had no idea how much of a role it actually played within our bodies and the impact it has on our overall health.

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body following sodium, potassium and calcium.  I get

Thankful Thursday..... things happen for a reason

I have always been of the belief that things happen for a reason.  You meet the people you are meant to meet and they either help you on your journey, or you help them.  Some of these people become lifelong friends, part time friends or one off meetings; and we often don't realise there was significance to the meeting until much later.

That black hole...

Overall life is good and my head is generally in a good place, but....

There is always this hole, a void inside of me and I feel like I might just fall right in at any time.

I do feel happy.

Food for Mood Monday.... Seriously serotonin!

So, last week I talked a bit about vitamin B and how it can improve your mood.  This week I wanted to take a closer look at serotonin and what foods can not only boost your serotonin levels, but stimulate the ongoing production of it, which is what we are really chasing in the fight against low moods and depression....

My rollercoaster ride...

After so many posts about mental health wellness and gratitude, I thought I would go a little personal today. 

I guess over the past few weeks, I didn't feel like I could go too personal on here as I was feeling some head spinny-close to the edge, might implode any minute kinda feelings that I couldn't really explain at the time.

Food & Mood Monday... how can this B?

The whole point of this series is to talk about how food affects our mood and what positive things we can do to aid this process.  Well, I started out by talking about things you should NOT ingest, but today I want to focus on good things you should eat to help you out - and there is so much I wasn't really sure where to start that wasn't going to overwhelm both you and me!

After searching for info on food mood lifters, I found this list: