Category: Lifestyle
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Why Do I Feel So Much More Tired When I am Doing Less In Lockdown?
Good afternoon and welcome back to this week’s Mental Health Monday post. This week I am covering something which I feel is very relevant to what many are experiencing in lockdown at the moment, but is also something people with chronic illness experience on a regular basis. There have been so many parallels drawn between…
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The Lockdown Silver Linings Tag
Yesterday I was nominated by the lovely Beverly over at Blooming Mindfulness in this new game of tag. Check out Beverly’s post at the Blooming Mindfulness blog The tag asks you to think about five things you are grateful for in lockdown and I think it is a great idea so wanted to get involved.
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An Introduction to Time Blocking with TOAD Diaries
Ad | Gifted Happy hump day one and all! Well today I have woken up and decided it is time to get out of this funk I am in. Has anyone else started to feel this way in lockdown? I feel like a child with too many toys who says they are bored! To try…
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Book Review – Finding Mindfulness in Nature
Ad| Gifted Hello and happy Wednesday! Today I have an amazing book to share with you. I did plan on popping this into my monthly book reviews but I had to give it it’s own post as I loved it so much! The amount of pages I have turned down with my favourite quotes and…
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Guest Post – Meal Prep Hacks for Busy Mums
Good morning and happy Friday. I was contacted and asked about guest contributions and thought this would work really well on the blog with some fab tops. I think as well as working well for busy parents, they also work well for the Spoonie community – some of these I already follow but I am…
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Showcase Cinema Trip
Ad | Gifted tickets We were lucky enough to be invited to the Showcase Cinema a couple of weeks ago for the premiere of two new short films from the books written by Julia Donaldson – Zog and The Highway Rat. Luckily this fell before all the Corona Virus restrictions came in and this resulted…
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Keeping Sane In Self-Isolation
So how is everyone doing? We are now on day 4 of isolation and so far we are managing to keep busy and (pretty) sane. There have been many parallels drawn on social media between self-isolation and life with chronic illness. I get it – we spend much of our time indoors, we cannot always…
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10 Things To Go And Disinfect Now!
And so it begins! Yesterday me and Ste went into self-isolation die to the Cirina Vurus and us both being classed as high risj due to compromised immune systems. This has thrown up so may questions for so many people about all manner of different things but today I wanted to share some simple cleaning…
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