Category: mental health
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my name is natalie and i am a recovering people pleaser
Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Mental Health Monday on The Spoonie Mummy. Today I want to talk about something that really affects me and something I am working on for myself – people pleasing.
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MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2020 – THE IMPORTANCE OF KINDNESS
Hi and welcome back to Mental Health Monday with me, The Spoonie Mummy. Today I thought it was only right to acknowledge the start of Mental Health Awareness Week which starts today in collaboration with the Mental Health Foundation. The theme of the week this year is KINDNESS. I thought that was a perfect topic…
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MENTAL HEALTH INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS I RECOMMEND
Good morning and welcome back to Mental Health Monday with The Spoonie Mummy. If you follow me on social media you will know that last week I managed to break my ankle in two places and am now in a cast. I am also, understandably on quite a few pain medications, so don’t feel in…
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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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Let’s Talk About… Intrusive Thoughts
Trigger warning – mental health, post-partum, anxiety, stress, intrusive thoughts, harm thoughts Welcome to the second Mental Health Monday post and thank you for all the feedback from last week! I decided to write this post a few weeks ago following a conversation with a friend. She told me about some of the thoughts she…
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Giving Ourselves Permission to Feel our Feelings
Welcome to the first Mental Health Monday post. As you all know, I am currently doing my degree in psychology and aim to become a psychotherapist working in particular, with people diagnosed with chronic illnesses. I really want to start helping people with my knowledge and also from my experiences as an ‘owner’ of several…
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12 Ways To Cope With Anxiety During Lockdown
As someone who suffers from anxiety, I can understand what others go through with this and if you are anything like me, the Covid-19 lockdown has had me on a bit of an emotional roller-coaster of late! I thought I would share some of my favourite ways of dealing with my anxiety, in the hope…
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Spoonie Self Care Club – February
Good morning and happy Sunday. Welcome to February’s Self Care Club with me, Stephie from Colitis To Ostomy and Rachel from Rocking2Stomas. Self Care the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one’s own…
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