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In Anxiety, Awareness, Darkness, Depression, Faith, Feelings, Hope, Life Lessons, Mental Illness, Recovery, Truth

Why You Won’t Find it Written in My Story that I Gave Up:

JulieOctober 24, 2018October 20, 2018Leave a comment

A phrase that often goes through my head is “some days are better than others”, and I have often used this in my posts and stories, simply because it is so true. Some days are great! Other days are average. And some days, we feel like we are in a living hell.
We might be too tired to fight it; things seem too difficult to keep pressing on. But even if some days the only thing I do is survive, I will not give up. If I wrote out my entire life story, not once would you read that I gave up, and this is why:

In Advice, Anxiety, Awareness, Depression, Feelings, Mental Illness, Recovery, Self Care, Self Love, Truth

The Truth about Self Care

JulieSeptember 2, 2018September 2, 2018Leave a comment

So many people talk about “self care” these days, especially when one is suffering from a mental illness, as well as things like stress and fatigue. But there’s something that many people don’t realise: Self care might not be what you think it is.

The question I am going to ask is, how do you view self care? Is it purely taking time out to be alone, to take a breath and relax? Treating yourself to coffee on the way to or from work? A long bubble bath at the end of a big day? A massage? An extra piece of cake – because you deserve it?

I have a simple answer for you. No. That is not self care. That is what I call “self love”. Self love is not a bad thing at all; it is in fact important, as long as it is not over-indulged. (But that’s for another post, on another day.)
Let’s talk more now about what “self care” really is…