Tag: Self-Care
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Finding joy amongst the hard parts of life | Rosie Abigail
Life is full of highs and lows – that’s been an understatement of the last five years! But there’s always joy to be found, even in the hard parts of life. Let me tell you how I find them –
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Finding My Creative Spark Again | Burnout | Rosie Abigail
For the past month, I’ve mentally felt as flat as a singular pancake. I’m not talking thick, fluffy, American style pancakes here, no no. I’m talking like a plan crepe on a plate. That’s not to say I’ve felt bad – crepes are great! It’s just that everything has felt a bit meh. I’ve been…
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How I Made Self-Care a Habit | Wellness & Wellbeing
For someone who waxes lyrical about the importance of self-care and how self-care should be more than a bubble bath and watching a TV show, I am terrible at self-care. I will let myself burn out like a fancy Anthropolgie candle, and that’s not good when you’ve got a chronic anxiety disorder. The good thing…
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How to Advocate for Yourself at the Doctor | Chronic Illness | rosie abigail
Every person I know who has a chronic illness or a disability has not been listened to by their doctors. Hell, every female-identifying person I know has had their experiences ignored by someone in a medical field. “The tests have come back negative, there’s nothing wrong with you”. “Just keep taking paracetamol”. “Maybe you should…
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How I Deal with Burnout | What is Burnout? | rosie abigail
Phewwww. The irony of not being able to write a blog about burnout because I’m burnt out is not lost on me. And do excuse me if I am preaching to the choir – I have a feeling a lot of us are in the same boat. Ahh burn out. To be honest, you may…
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Self-Care for a Panic Attack or High-Anxiety Day | Mental Health | Rosie Abigail
Oof, I don’t know if any of you fellow anxiety-ridden-folks have been feeling the same, but the past few weeks have been rough. I don’t know if the moon is doing something, if it’s the change in the season, or if it’s the ever pressing weight of a poorly governed world run by a select…
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How I’ve Learnt to Live with an Anxiety Disorder | Health & Self-Care
Put me up on a stage in front of hundreds, speech in hand, and I’ll own it. Plonk me down in a room full of strangers, I’ll fake small talk so good you’ll think I’m an extrovert. Give me a tight deadline and I will work, work, work until I get it done. But if…
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Little Ways I Am Taking Care of Myself in Lockdown | Lifestyle and Wellbeing
As I am writing out this introduction, I am in a big slump. Big brain slump, big life slump, big everything slump. Little, nasty, biting thoughts keep flapping around my head, and the lockdown blues have really settled in. Full on grey, sludgey, meh vibes. I want to see my friends. I’m aching to see…
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Staying Positive in Lockdown 2: Electric Boogaloo | Self-Care
Anyone else feeling like they are in an Orwell novel or a Black Mirror episode right about now? I know I am. Worldwide disease, countries on lockdowns, global leaders behaving like toddlers; I didn’t expect this when I wrote my New Year’s Resolutions. As of Thursday 5th November, England (where I live) has gone into…
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My Love of Hygge; or, How to Find Joy in the Smallest of Things | Lifestyle
I tend to elicit odd looks from strangers at this time of year. Mainly it’s because you can find me shouting “oh that’s so cwtchy!” or “yesss that’s just so hygge” at almost everything. If you yourself are furrowing your brow like “what is she saying?”, let me give you a brief run down. ‘Cwtchy…
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