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Life Update – A Year In Lockdown
Well it has been a little while… I do apologise for the radio silence! If you follow me on social media you will know I was still around, however my online life has had to take a step back for a number of reasons, as I will explain below. Today marks the one year anniversary…
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November Book Reviews and 20 for 20 Update
Ad | Some items have been gifted in return for a review (marker with a *) | Post contains affiliate links Hello all, how is everyone? I cannot believe Christmas is next week!!! I apologise my November reviews are so late this month, I have a manic couple of weeks sorting out my university assignment…
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CHRONICALLY ILL MUM GUILT
Good morning and welcome to a new week! Today I have another in the Mental Health Monday series and I have decided to write a bit about Mum guilt and how being chronically ill can often add to these feelings. Some women, like me, are chronically ill for as long as they remember and this…
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SHIELDING EASING, ANXIETY RISING
Good morning and welcome back to Mental Health Monday on The Spoonie Mummy. Today in England, the restrictions begin to ease for the people who have been shielding since March. While exciting, these changes are also happening very quickly and have caused feelings of worry and anxiety to rise in many. I thought I would…
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CHRONIC ILLNESS AND LONELINESS
Ad | Paid Collaboration Well hello there Monday. Today I am working with the Chronic Warrior Collective and Chronic Illness Bloggers for my Mental Health Monday post. I have written before about loneliness but today I wanted to talk about it with a focus on the chronic illness community, and what the Chronic Warrior Collective…
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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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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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