June is National PTSD Awareness Month in the States, and the 27th of June is also International PTSD Awareness Day. Following my PTSD diagnosis after a traumatic accident, I am trying to raise awareness of PTSD. However, it is not just about generating a focus on the condition itself. My aim is to put the …
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Life doesn’t always go in the direction we want or imagined that it would. But who said that we can’t discover the purpose and meaning of life whilst pursuing plan B? When a friend of mine told me that after several unsuccessful attempts to conceive a baby they were giving up, I could hear the …
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I am writing this letter to my husband on our anniversary. Seven years ago, we promised to love each other and be there for one another through the good and the bad. And that’s how it has been ever since. Things between us actually started much earlier as we opened our tenth year together with …
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It is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK and Mental Health Awareness Month in the States and some other countries. The theme for this Mental Health Awareness Week is loneliness. Loneliness is a word that isn’t too unfamiliar to me. Even though I see myself as a sociable person, I have experienced it several …
As Mother’s Day approaches, I find the discussion of children and motherhood from my most recent college reunion finding its way back into my head. A few years ago, I attended a reunion organised for the class that I was in at college as a teenager. We were a girls-only class of around thirty. Given …
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 …
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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When it comes to Valentine’s Day many couples make the effort to celebrate this special day, some more than others. This Valentine’s Day will be very different. For us, it will be down to more than just the current pandemic as I’m also still recovering from my accident. I admit, given the current situation I …
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