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Award-winning Author, Poet, Mental Health Advocate, and the Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Stamford (2022-23).
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Ways to Improve your Mental Wellbeing Every Day
By Michael Baxendale Mental health is one of the key topics of the 21st century – and rightly so. Mental health relates to your overall...
Dec 22, 20214 min read


Connor Gates: Anxiety and Depression…
The following article is written by Connor Gates, another mental health advocate. I encourage you to read the article in full, and check...
Oct 24, 20214 min read
Burnout: Shining some Light on the Silent Obstacle we all Face
Only this week have I realised quite how much I have on my plate. I like to keep busy – you know I do. Nonetheless, sometimes, there are...
Sep 27, 20214 min read


Midday Poetry Preview!
Do you remember the Dark Poetry Preview I shared with you a few months ago? Well, in that preview I mentioned that I would also share...
Sep 11, 20211 min read


Dark Poetry Preview!
Sooo… As you’ll have seen (and if you haven’t you will now!), I am self-publishing a book called Prevailed Hope which will be available...
Jul 6, 20211 min read
Interview miniseries: Jennie Verleg
As part of this mental heath interview series, I asked participants to take their pick of six questions out of twenty, and then answer...
Jun 29, 20214 min read


Alcohol and Coping
I did have another topic planned this week, but decided against it, because I was thinking, in between sips of my pink gin, how alcohol...
May 8, 20212 min read


A Person with a Disability?
As some of you may know from reading My Story, I have a physical disability alongside the other issues that I have described. Up for...
Apr 10, 20213 min read


My Experience: DNA Lightup
I would say I am a spiritual person – open minded about all the possibilities that the world has to offer. That said, I’m not into...
Mar 27, 20214 min read


Journaling – Your Unexpected Support
From my experience, journaling automatically gets dubbed stereotypically as a teenage girl whirling away the afternoon, writing away. The...
Jan 9, 20212 min read


New Year Update
Hello, everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas, despite everything. Onwards and upwards into the New Year – hopefully it’s an...
Jan 2, 20213 min read


These Five apps can help you Manage your Mental Health
In the busy time that is the 21st century (seems a little ironic saying that this year, doesn’t It?), sometimes it is nice to know that...
Dec 12, 20204 min read


OCD – A few of my Thoughts and Observations
From my point of view, there are a few misconceptions about OCD that seem to stem from OCD being the butt of the joke (again). So I just...
Dec 5, 20203 min read


Body Image
Trigger warning: contains sensitive content regarding body image, weight and eating. I thought I’d do post on it this week, as it is a...
Nov 28, 20204 min read


My Guest Post with Elizabeth Holland: Tackling Six Stigmas of Depression Head On
I hope you’re all doing well, or as best as you can in the current situation. Earlier this month, I wrote a guest post for the brilliant...
Nov 21, 20201 min read


Positive Affirmations
While this might not be directly mental health related, it’s a strategy that can help you maintain the right mindset to achieve your...
Nov 14, 20203 min read


How to talk to Somebody About a Mental Illness
Mental illness (more appropriately, health) is such a broad term that incorporates so many aspects of a person’s life and experiences....
Nov 7, 20203 min read


How You Could Look after Yourself in the Time of Covid – 19
Times are different, as they have been for a while. By now, if you’re like me and most of the rest of the world, you just want things to...
Oct 30, 20204 min read


The Key to being Mindful
Let me ask you – what does mindfulness mean to you? A mind full of hot air? A mind full of sawdust, perhaps? Wait just a minute –...
Oct 24, 20205 min read
Feeling SAD as the nights draw in?
We have arrived at that time of year. That time of year where it seems like everyone around you lets out a – sometimes obligatory – sigh...
Oct 10, 20206 min read
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