I’m undergoing a change. It’s been an awfully long time coming. Slow, like a snail, gliding, unfurling and expanding inside my brain. It feels like I have been in a chrysalis for so long now. As I break my way to the surface, I find myself unsteady, wobbly even, with my new emerging wings. It…
Tag: mental health
WHAT WOULD BUDDHA DO?
It’s 3:30am. I’ve been awake since 2:30am. It’s pouring with rain outside and it’s freezing. Whenever it rains at night, especially that hard driving miserable rain, I think of the homeless. I lay in bed, snuggled under my duvet and blanket and I imagine how awful it must be for them trying to stave off…
THIS IS ME
This post has been inspired by Leonie Dawson whose about page says “What is a Leonie?” I love it. Thank you Leonie. It is also inspired by the countless people in this world who are made to feel “less than” simply because they don’t fit some ridiculous non-existent mould. This is for those people in…
A love note to myself {and I encourage you to do the same}
Below is a love letter to myself. It is Day 12 of the #reverb14 and this was the task for today. I found it incredibly difficult to write. It felt narcissistic and wrong. And yet, by doing so I was able to acknowledge the value of myself as a person. As a person with depression…
Out with black and white, in with shades of grey
The world is not black and white. It is in fact full of shades of grey, with a good heap of colour, definitely not black and white. Yet, as humans, we are committed to this notion that life has to be exactly that – black and white, right or wrong, yes or no. It is…
Piece of mind vs Peace of mind
If you had the opportunity, would you go back to that one person who hurt you so badly and let them have it? All that visceral anger that you have been harbouring, unleashed. One of the traits of someone living with depression is that we tend to ruminate, especially on those people or incidents that…
Time to let go, time to release
Frantic is the only word to describe my life at the moment. The silly season is upon us and I am the proverbial chicken without a head, trying desperately to get it all done before the big day. It isn’t going to happen. I have to let some things go. I have lost my…
We need to talk about mental illness, depression and suicide NOW!
I went to see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 today. It was awesome. I loved the book and I loved the movie. But throughout the movie I could not help but feel sad. As Philip Seymour Hoffman graced the screen in the effortless way that was his acting style, I couldn’t help but…
Operation Sarah is a go
I have never been one for self improvement of the body. It’s true. Now self improvement of the mind, that I could sink my teeth into. But body improvement? Not for me. Of course, this stance was just a guise for “I can’t be arsed to move my body”. And this attitude led to me…