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...
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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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- Jun 29, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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- May 8, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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- Apr 10, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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- Mar 27, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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- Dec 19, 2020
- 3 min
This is the Other side of Christmas
Blogmass is a thing I didn’t know existed until literally a few weeks ago (perhaps someting to put in the pipeline for next year), but I...
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- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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- Dec 5, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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- Nov 21, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Nov 14, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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- Nov 7, 2020
- 3 min
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....
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- Oct 30, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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- Oct 24, 2020
- 5 min
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 –...
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- Oct 17, 2020
- 6 min
10 Mental Health related Books You Should Read!
It’s cold, your night off, and all you want to is spend the night snuggled in comfort. This might be your favourite blanket, fleece – or...
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- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Welcome
Hey, you. Yes, you. What does mental health mean to you? Some people seem to stop when they realise that health is contradictory to what...
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