Tag: #MentalHealth
Posts that reference mental health, including neuro diversity, and the community needs. Tips and advice on how to be inclusive.
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AdventWord 2024: Proclaim
Proclaiming the Everyday: Celebrating Life’s Small Wins In a world that often highlights big milestones, it’s easy to forget the power of small wins. It’s these everyday accomplishments – no matter how minor they may seem that can boost our energy, improve our mindset, and keep us moving forward. To proclaim the everyday is to
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AdventWord 2024: Prepare
The Pressure of Preparation This time of year, brings a lot of pressure to be prepared, and so much going on it can quickly become overwhelming. For any walk of life, it is easy to get swept up in the material things, to ensure we tick off the numerous tasks we feel we should complete
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AdventWord 2024: Safety
Supporting Mental Health This Festive Season The word safety often brings to mind physical protection – keeping ourselves safe from harm, accidents, or danger. As we approach the festive season, it’s also essential to think about mental safety – the emotional and psychological security that helps us navigate life’s challenges, particularly during times of increased
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AdventWord 2023: Ponder
Ponder for me… Variants of this conversation have happened so many times in my life: Person: “I am having [problem] and it’s so annoying!” Me: “I avoid that problem using [system].” Person (who was JUST complaining about how annoying this problem is): “WTF why do you have a system for that??” Me: “…???” Photo by
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AdventWord 2023: Awake
Awake Have you ever described yourself as “being on autopilot”? Well, you probably were! Specific regions of the brain, together called the “default mode network”, kick in when we do a practised activity. One study watched the brain activity of volunteers while they learned a card game. When they first started playing and were trying
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AdventWord 2023: Hidden
If you read my blogs last year, you’ll already know that I spend a lot of my life thinking about the stories we’re not allowed to tell. The things we’re taught to keep hidden. Masking neurodivergence, closeting our romantic and sexual orientations (or lack thereof), plastering a front over our health issues (temporary or chronic)…
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AdventWord 2022: Beloved
What is love? Photo by Renate Vanaga Don’t start singing that nonsense 90s song at me. I want a serious answer. Because this is a question which has haunted me for most of my life. What is love and what does beloved actually mean? I say “haunted” because most of the definitions of love I’ve
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AdventWord 2022: Winnowing
Photo: Hannah Grace – A good approach to life as well as writing! What do we mean by winnowing? Well, put simply, to winnow is to separate a large number of things, into a smaller amount of things. Let us take editing as an example. Editing is an art. I know, I know, of course,
