Category Archives: mental health

Thoughts on Radical Kindness as a Daily Practice: Part 1.

Posted on Feb 29, 2020 by

It’s almost ten years since Amy Winehouse died. I really liked her music and was lucky enough to see her perform twice during her first album. She was a wonderful, funny, forceful presence on stage. In later years I saw … Continue reading →

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Reasons to be grateful: being able to change my living situation.

Posted on Mar 9, 2019 by

It’s been a while since I’ve been here on the blog. After a lot of disruption we’ve finally managed to move into a new area in London and have even unpacked some of the boxes.  There were a few months … Continue reading →

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Reasons to be grateful #6 – swimming with my sister

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 by

There hasn’t been a huge amount of activity on this blog for a week or more as I’m a bit exhausted and taking a bit of down time. However, Laurie from the lovely blog Meditations in Motion posted this post … Continue reading →

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Things to do when you are busy not having a baby

Posted on May 29, 2018 by

One of the things that my partner and I discussed early on in the process of having fertility treatment was how not to let the ‘trying to have a baby’ stuff consume all the energy we may have to do … Continue reading →

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Patience and watching my garden grow

Posted on May 18, 2018 by

I started writing this a few weeks ago, but I’ve been kind of working through a sticky depressive brain fog since then and I feel so slow at the moment (and I already picked the slow road so you know, … Continue reading →

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Swimming the distance: mental health as a endurance pursuit

Posted on Apr 21, 2018 by

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may (or may not!) know that I’m currently training for a long distance swim in June. I’ll be swimming 5K, which is just over 3 miles (not an insubstantial distance … Continue reading →

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Objects with meaning – do you want to join in?

Posted on Mar 17, 2018 by

A few weeks ago I started running a series of posts about ‘objects with meaning’, by which I meant objects that have personal importance to us, so that they may make up part of our emotional story or landscape. You … Continue reading →

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