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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…
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Guest Post – Meal Prep Hacks for Busy Mums
View recipe: Guest Post – Meal Prep Hacks for Busy MumsGood 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
View recipe: Showcase Cinema TripAd | 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
View recipe: Keeping Sane In Self-IsolationSo 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…













