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Let’s Talk About… Intrusive Thoughts
View recipe: Let’s Talk About… Intrusive ThoughtsTrigger 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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The Lockdown Silver Linings Tag
View recipe: The Lockdown Silver Linings TagYesterday 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
View recipe: An Introduction to Time Blocking with TOAD DiariesAd | 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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Giving Ourselves Permission to Feel our Feelings
View recipe: Giving Ourselves Permission to Feel our FeelingsWelcome 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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Trialling GOPO Joint Health
View recipe: Trialling GOPO Joint HealthAd | Gifted Good morning and happy new week! Does anyone else feel like it is Monday today after the bank holiday weekend? To be honest, lockdown is making me lose track a lot of the time and I still haven’t been able to work out how many days it is since I left the…
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Book Review – Finding Mindfulness in Nature
View recipe: Book Review – Finding Mindfulness in NatureAd| 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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Easy Home-School Ideas
View recipe: Easy Home-School IdeasGood morning and happy new week! I just typed a whole paragraph about how long we had been in isolation, but deleted it as I questioned myself and actually cannot remember how long it has been! We started a week before the the official lockdown as me and Ste both have health problems, but when…













