Autumn season has arrived and as the leaves begin to fall from the trees, my stress level is going up. Home from our summer holiday (staycation this year) and back at work. Looking back at the holiday photos it’s hard to say goodbye to summer, it’s even harder if summer is your favourite season. But […]
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How helping others helps to boost your own happiness? | Support the good cause Six weeks before the end of 2020 I had a terrible accident. Now, nine months later, I’m making progress and have decided that it’s time to give back and help those who helped me when I needed it. Therefore I’ve decided
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The Proven Benefit of Being in Nature on Our Wellbeing | My Sponsored Walk This year the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK was nature. There is, without doubt, a health benefit of being in nature. Most of us can agree that being outdoors and being active has a positive impact on
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Yesterday was PTSD Awareness Day, and it was also my wedding Anniversary. It’s a bit ironic that they both fell on the same day, as that’s what this post is about, supporting a person with mental health problems. So how to support someone with PTSD during their recovery? I was diagnosed with PTSD about six
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If you clicked on the link to open this post, then PTSD probably isn’t totally unknown terminology to you. I can’t say that I was ever particularly thinking about PTSD until it affected me personally. As I discussed in the previous post, I was diagnosed with PTSD at the beginning of this year. I suffered
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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, and May is also Mental Health Awareness Month in the US. Given this, there can’t be a better time to share my experience with post-traumatic stress disorder. With this post, I’m also kicking off my ‘PTSD: My Story Project‘. It is a safe place for
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Last week I celebrated 15 years together with my husband. The last few months put a lot of strain on our relationship, as I have been recovering from my accident. However, it also proved that relationships can survive even tough times. There is a way how to overcome adversity. So if you want to know
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I wrote this letter to heaven nine years after she’s gone. A letter addressed to my mum in heaven. She has been looking after me from there with such love and care, as always. A letter to heaven “My dear mum in heaven, there hasn’t been a day that I didn’t miss you. I miss
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Spring started a few days ago. For me, it’s the time of freshness. It’s the time when nature is waking up from its long winter sleep, when beauty is rising out of the cold. Spring is also the time of hope. Hope and new beginnings. That’s what the real meaning of hope is for me,
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Today, as I write this, it has been exactly three months since the doctors said to me, “You know, you are a very, very lucky girl!” They called it a miracle. Three months ago, I ‘was reborn’. Since then, every day has been a new miracle for me and this is proof that miracles do
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