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    Pain awareness month

    Pain awareness month is an important time of the year for advocates, we can take the opportunity to raise awareness for the fact that chronic pain is not like acute pain. There are so many different definitions, and statistics and ways to explain what pain is like, but living with chronic pain is so different. I often talk here on the blog about my own experiences with chronic pain, this is because it is important to me that people understand how pain is to live with. Many of us, including me who was a nurse when I got sick, assume that medications can take pain away completely. However, no matter…

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    How to Relieve Tension

    With all the responsibilities of life, it can be very difficult to stay calm and feel grounded. The smallest thing can make you snap and make you feel extremely tense. It is essential to take the time in your day to stop, take a breath, and release the weight of your emotions and feelings. A lot of times this can be hard to do because you may not know the most effective way to release your tension. Everyone is different and everyone has a different way to release that works for them. Here are a few ways you can reduce the tension of your busy day.  Breathe Learning how to…

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    Working through frustration

    Working through frustration has become something I am used to, something I battle with every day. Chronic fatigue holds me back from so much, recording my YouTube videos, even writing this blog so I thought we should chat about it. I have suffered with ME/CFS for so long it’s hard to remember how it feels to have a day without feeling bone tired. Sometimes it eases off me and I have a couple of days when I feel productive, I wake early and get things done. I always forget to pace on those days and I soon realise why I should still move at the same pace as on not…

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    6 Ways to Protect Your Mental Health

    Every day our mental health comes under attack from many different angles, and we must do what we can to protect it. But where do we start? Here are some simple steps that you can do today to help improve your overall mental health and wellbeing. Talk about how you feel One of the simplest things you can do is talk about how you feel with someone that you trust. Although the hardest part about this can be finding the words to express how you are feeling. This can take some practice but once you are able to verbalise how you feel, you may find that your problems and issues…

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    Feeling broken and lost

    Feeling broken and lost is something I know all too well and something I honestly don’t talk about enough here on the blog. So, let’s have a chat about functional depression. Now just to be transparent I was diagnosed with chronic depression, which is something I was diagnosed with when I was in my early twenties. Now I don’t know what changes in names of things have happened in the last 20years and I can’t find much information on this. Because of that I have to assume the name has changed and though I do see therapists from time to time, the name has never been updated to me. However,…

  • Mental Health

    Taking some me time

    I think we all live with guilt when we take a day for ourselves, it’s ingrained in our society to always be working and grafting even if we are sick. But taking some me time is so important for our mental and physical health so lets talk about it. Last night I didn’t sleep too well, the reason was I was reading, and though I am often reading witchcraft books, this time it was fiction. I have been reading all the Zodiac Academy books and oh my goodness I am hooked they are so so good! So I stayed up late because I didnt have much left to read of…

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    Disability pride month and #spooniewitchesexist

    This week has been eventful I have had a ton of nominations in the WEGO health awards, it is disability pride month, and #spooniewitchesexist. All these things excite me and I am dying to chat about so lets get to it! So lets start with the fact that I have been nominated for SEVEN awards in the WEGO health awards!!! I am so proud of how far I have come her on the blog and on YouTube and just generally in how I try to stand up for others in the Disabled community. I am so grateful that people here in my community thought to nominate me and I just…

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    How my mobility aids help my pain

    Many people in this world use mobility aids, but today I want to talk about how my mobility aids help my pain. Now if you don’t use them this might seem strange, but bear with me and everything will become clear. I am what is called an ambulatory wheelchair user, this means that I can walk but I do on occasion need to use a wheelchair. This surprises a lot of people who are not disabled because we all just assume that a wheelchair means paralysis or limb loss or something like that. This is mainly because of films and TV shows showing these to be the only reasons why…

  • Mental Health

    Being social again

    Today I went out with my friend Jess for a coffee and a slice of cake, something we would do from time to time. But after lockdowns being social again feels so alien and especially for me who finds social situations awkward at times. I was never very good at social situations, a fact that now my mom puts down to me being autistic though I’ve never been diagnosed or anything. However, I could always muddle through and have fun with my friends who I could be myself with. I have a lot of really lovely memories of spending time with Jess and her partner paul, and though I always…

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    One of those days…

    Yes, today is one of those days, you know when everything hurts and you feel like you could nap for about a year quite happily. So instead of heading to bed, I thought we would talk about it. Most of the time I am able to cope, most days my pain is well managed with my medications and as long as I pace myself I feel ok. But then from time to time, and out of nowhere, there are days like today where the pain pushes through anything I take and I am tired no matter what I do. These days are not easy, and are often not spoken about…