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Why you need a fuck it list this year
I’m going to make the case for why you need a fuck it list this year and how to create one. You probably have a bucket list for all the fun things you want to do in life before you die. The bucket and fuck it lists go hand-in-hand. One is what you want to do. The...
How to easily improve your relationship with uncertainty
How to easily improve your relationship with uncertainty can sound like one of those too-good-to-be-true promises. It’s that word ‘easily’. You may be wondering if it can be that easy. Because you may find it really hard to live with uncertainty. Especially in these...
Why you don’t need to move on from your illness
When others tell you to ‘move on from your illness’ or ‘shouldn’t you let it go now’ whenever you speak about it, you can feel guilty. Like you’ve done something wrong. It can also feel like your experience of the illness or injury, treatment and everything it means...
How to breathe to calm yourself when you’re stressed
Do you kind of forget how to breathe to calm yourself when you’re feeling stressed? You don’t really realise it until maybe someone points it out. Or you finally get to a place of calm and think, ‘Boy, I wasn’t feeling that great!’ It’s understandable. You can get so...
How to conquer overwhelm with ease
Dealing with a challenging health issue can feel like you’re exchanging your life for overwhelm. Click thru to read the three things you can do to conquer overwhelm.
The one thing you can do to regain control quickly
When you don’t feel in control, all you want is something to help you regain control. But sometimes the solution doesn’t come quickly enough for your liking. Or it’s hard to sift through everything and determine what’s best for you because you may be feeling so much...
How to recover from the coronavirus illness
We may be past the peak of COVID-19 with lockdown just starting to ease, but now there’s the question of how to recover from coronavirus. I can speak on this from a number of perspectives, but for now, I want to focus on those of you who have had the virus....
How to feel more in control
Many people want to feel more in control during these uncertain times. I’m hearing from people who talk about feeling-out-sorts or are waking up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. And the anxiety feels like just one more thing to overcome. Others...
What is your relationship with uncertainty like?
Considering what your relationship with uncertainty is like has probably not featured as something to think about. Unless of course you’ve had to deal with a challenging health issue, whether your own or someone else’s. Or another significant life event that brought a...
How to manage stress and anxiety
We’re not often taught in life how to manage stress and anxiety. Yet it’s something many of us deal with on a day-to-day basis. At times it can feel like it gets into the driving seat of one or more parts of your life. It’s understandable, life happens like that....
What do you think of the poem And People Stayed Home
A poem titled And People Stayed Home has been making the rounds because it resonates with what many people hope is an outcome of this lockdown. The author of the poem has been referred to as a Kathleen O’Meara, an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the...
How to improve your mental health with five a day
What do you to improve your mental health? Like we are encouraged to have five types of vegetables and fruit every day, what are your five go to activities to maintain or improve your mental health? Our mental health is being tested right now What with everything...