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How Anxiety Affects Me
If you follow me on Instagram you will know that I am going through a bout of anxiety. I just thought I would document exactly how anxiety affects me and my daily life when I’m having an ‘episode’. Anxiety affects people in different ways and each time I have it, it is a different experience. I find it really tricky talking to people who have never suffered from any form of it as nine times out of ten they just don’t get it. But, if you do suffer you will know how utterly consuming it can be. So, I’ve been fine (mentally) for a good while, I was in a…
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Top Tips – How I Started Working Out At Home
Way back in the day of clubbing, binge eating crap and doing minimal exercise health and fitness was not on my radar. Over the years my mindset has evolved and I am now in a really good place with consistently working out and eating the right foods for my body. So how did I start working out at home? The first real workout I undertook was Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. I’d dabbled with Hannah Waterman, Clair Nazir and other pointless celebrity “workout” dvds, going to body balance and a few spin classes. But it was Jillian Michaels that really kick started my passion for at home workouts. I had…
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The Forbidden Word… Cellulite!!
I have wanted to write this post for the longest time but I feel slightly apprehensive about posting it as I’m not sure how this is going to come across. It is not a poor me, woe is me, feel sorry for me post it is a really honest account of body image. It all started from my experience in Primark today. I went to try on some jeans – a size 6 which is very small I know, in fact they were too big. Getting changed in those horrible lights with a billion mirrors pointing at every single angle of my body was terrifying. I thought I was looking…
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Do More Of What Makes You Happy – World Mental Health Day – Moving House
“Do more of what makes you happy” – isn’t that the saying? It is World Mental Health Day today and this quote got me thinking. For me how I feel inside my head is not just about anxiety or feeling down/depressed, I think mental health covers a vast selection of emotions, feelings, thoughts and physical experiences. Recently (actually, for the past 6 months) I have been going through a real battle with myself. I don’t know whether it is due to the move and the stress of uprooting our family to a town that we know little about and removing our children from a school they loved, putting them into…
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Mental Health
Mental health is a really sensitive subject that no one really likes to delve into much. Personally, I get the feeling that if we say how we feel we are labelled as depressed straight away. This isn’t always the case, surely you can feel a certain way but not be depressed? I wish I could express exactly where I’m at with life right now but I live in a very small town and I know people in my town read my blog, I’m just not comfortable sharing everything and being talked about. I know you’re probably thinking ‘what’s the point in this post then?’. Well, if I don’t get at…
