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Anxiety is an all too familiar feeling to many of us in life. For the majority, we feel anxiety when we are worried or scared in a situation and that’s normal. For others, anxiety is an intrusive guest in our mind whom we never invited in, and who never wants to leave. We insist we …
She stood idle in a desolate, never ending wasteland with no promise of escape. She was searching for a bump in the landscape, a movement in the distance, a reflection shimmering at her but saw nothing. She was alone and lost. No one would find her here, no one could help. She’d somehow carelessly stumbled …
Have you ever felt like you were destined to do something bigger, more meaningful in your life but didn’t know how to achieve it? You feel like you’re capable of achieving your dreams, but at the same time you worry that you don’t have what it takes or you weren’t born with the drive of …
Have you ever had those days where, try as you may, you cannot bring yourself to fulfil a task? You tell yourself “I should do the washing up as I’ll appreciate walking into a tidy kitchen later on”. You consider the thought for a moment, before a feeling of dread and discomfort overwhelms you and …
We spend so much of our time trying to find original ways to live our lives and find our way to a successful life. We’re taught from a young age that copying people and ideas is cheating and is always bad. Yes, I would agree that if you copy your friend’s exam results then you’re …
Exercise can be one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome, especially when you’re struggling with low mood. You recognise exercise is something you’d like to introduce to your life, but you have no energy or motivation to do it. For me, it has been a battle for the last 10 years to try and …
Mind racing, head spinning, I can’t sleep. I lay there in bed regretting the day gone, dreading the day to come. Sleep is a gift I have not been given this night. Sleep is a mercy, an escape but tonight I stay in a prison of my own creation. I search for the darkness to …
You can call it failure; I call it life. Ant Middleton It has been a while since I have written a post, so I must admit it is a little intimidating coming back to it again! A lot has changed, the world is looking a lot brighter. When I wrote my first blog post I …
It can be difficult to know what to do some days; sometimes you feel like there is so much to get done and not enough hours in the day, at other times you have nothing to do and filling the void of nothingness in your day can be daunting. This blog post is going to …
Today is a day of not feeling good enough. Today is a day of feeling so far away from all of my goals. This is a post written in the middle of me trying to figure out what’s going on in my head. First mistake of the day, I played a video game – I …