Are you a “victim,” or are you taking responsibility for your life? 🧐 I’m not talking about those who are or have been a victim of some kind of trauma. ❤️🩹 But there’s a big difference between being a victim and being a survivor and someone who likes the drama of playing the victim. So many of us THINK we’re taking responsibility for our own live’s when we aren’t really. The “victim” mentality is very subtle and it takes…
Are you in the midst of depression right now? I experienced depression in 2010 + 2011 + wanted to share some of the things that helped me through it. ☀️ laying in the sun for as long as I could listening to positive affirmations flat out. Even though I didn’t believe those affirmations at the time I knew it was better to have that flooding my brain to take the edge off my own thoughts. …
When you’re facing negative situations in life, how do you handle it? 🤔 Do you spend your time and energy complaining about the way things are? Do you blame other people? 😤 Do you put it in the basket of “nothing will ever work out for me”? Or do you use it as an indication that you’re not where you want to be, and do something about it? If you’re stuck in negative…
We all go through painful situations in life – it’s an inevitable part of the journey of living. But suffering is a human condition + one that we do to ourselves. We obsessively think about things that happened in our past, that we did or were done to us. 🤯 We overthink all the things we believe are going wrong in our lives. By doing so, we forget how magnificent our life really is.…
I have four awesome, crazy little nephews who are unfortunately a long way away in New York. My fam has a group family chat and every now and again, we get a little voice message from Mr Four. Hitting play on this has got to be one of the highlights of my day. You hear in his little sniffly four year old voice; “I feel fank u for….” with him repeating this over and…
Around 80% of our thoughts are negative. Does that number surprise you? In my twenties I did some volunteering as an Appropriate Adult for vulnerable adults being interviewed by the Police. (Side note: a lot of my mates will have a giggle at me having the title “Appropriate Adult”) 😆 As part of that training we learned about mental health and anxiety provoking thoughts that can lead to behaviour change during interviews. As homework we were told to pay closer attention…
