Depression, Mental Health
10 Ways to Help Your Depressed Child Feeling sad is an emotion we all experience throughout life. It is as valid and equal emotion as happiness. Depression is different to the feeling of sadness, but your child might struggle to explain how they feel using...
Depression, Hypnobirthing
What is Postnatal Depression? Postnatal depression is a depression that occurs after birth. A third of people get depression that begins during pregnancy, so it is inclusive to use the word perinatal, which can begin between the start of pregnancy to around a...
Anxiety, Depression, stress, Trauma
How Does Trauma Affect the Brain? Do as I say not as I do. Stop being sensitive, you’re too dramatic. You’re so dumb. I’ll chuck the cat out if you keep doing that. You like that?… You’re weird. These sentences are all forms of verbal abuse. You...
Depression, Mental Health
What is Depression & How Do I Know if I Have It? Last week I felt stunned to see a tweet announcing the death of someone I follow. Not a friend or anyone I have ever communicated with but someone who I rooted for. Whose blog I read with the deepest...
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...
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...
