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 …
Achieving Your Goals: How to Form a New Habit
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 …
Finding your roadmap to happiness and success
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 …
How not giving up led to me achieving weight loss
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 …
Being in Limbo
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 …
Overcoming The Fear of Failure: What happened When I Stepped Out Of My Comfort Zone
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 …
Finding a balance in life
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 …
When it feels like you’re not progressing in life
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 …
University, Stress and Mental Health
It can be terrifying growing up nowadays as there is so much choice around. The possibilities are endless, yet you feel trapped and like life is closing in on you forcing you to decide on what your career should be. What subjects do I study at school? Do I go to college? Will it look …
Embracing Failure: What Society Doesn’t Want You To Know
Do you ever have those moments where you find out some new information, a missing piece in the puzzle of how you’re going to conquer your depression and you feel so motivated and in control? An idea someone shares with you, a book you read, song lyrics, a blog you read online… You think to …