How Sleep Affects Your Mental Health

Mental Health, Sleep Issues

How Sleep Affects Your Mental Health   What came first, the chicken or the egg and other questions like this will puzzle us for years to come. For most people though they are the questions we hypothesize over with friends at the end of a long weekend away when...

4 Books That Help with Depression and Anxiety

Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health

4 Books That Help with Depression and Anxiety   I love reading, so much so that I dream of days gone by when I had less to prioritise in my life and I found it easy to make the time to read. One such day during Easter 2020 when we all found ourselves confined to...

When You Don’t Feel Enough

Confidence, Depression, Meditation and Mindfulness, Mental Health

When you don’t Feel Enough   There’s nothing I love more than a rom-com and the classic Mark Darcy quote                   “No, I like you very much. Just as you are.”   is often in my mind. You see – something has caught my attention in recent...

I am so overwhelmed…

Anxiety, stress

I am so overwhelmed.   The past month I felt particularly overwhelmed. Within five weeks we have three family birthdays. As a party lover, in previous years I have organised myself early. The invites get sent out so far in advance no one has any excuses, the...

How You Can Help People with Anxiety

Anxiety, Depression

How You Can Help People with Anxiety   Anxiety is something that comes and goes for all of us, for some people though it sticks around unnecessarily. Sometimes it feels harder to work out whether your friend is struggling than to know how you can help people with...

Why Is Nutrition Important?

Mental Health, Nutrition

Why Is Nutrition Important?   I had to have the talk with my daughter recently. After a weekend of non-nutritious food offerings everywhere we looked not much was hardly en pointe. When she asked for yet another refined carb heavy snack we sat down. She blocked...