Tag Archive: mental health

Weekly Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve wanted to share with you.

Weekly Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve wanted to share with you.

Weekly Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve wanted to share with you.

Against All Darkness: A Reflection on Hope and Resilience

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So few grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. – Jane Hirshfield “The Weighing” I’ve been reflecting on these lines from Jane Hirshfield’s poem The Weighing and how its… Continue reading

Are you ashamed to be ill?

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In our competitive society, chronic infirmity or illness is viewed as a personal failing rather than the random stroke of fate that it is ~  Angelika Byczkowski I recently spotted a post on… Continue reading

Weekly Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blogs which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve… Continue reading

Grieving life’s losses and finding your new normal

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Grief is a natural response to loss and although  we normally associate grief with the death of a loved one, the fact is that any loss can cause grief, including serious illness.I have… Continue reading

Weekly Round-Up

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It’s back! Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blogs which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and… Continue reading

Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge Day 17 #HAWMC

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Day 17 of the WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month which I have signed up for – a month dedicated to the art of writing about health.  Today’s prompt: Learned the Hard Way. What’s a… Continue reading

Learning to be kind to ourselves

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Today’s post is inspired by a recent newsletter from life coach, Cheryl Richardson and also my own reflections on how hard I and many of you are on yourselves. Numerous scientific studies have… Continue reading