Lockdown Learning | Ways to Fill Your Time
Lockdown Learning | Ways to Fill Your Time As we enter Lockdown 2.0 I want to share some ways you can use this time to learn new things. A lot of people I know have…
Category: Mental Health
50 Self-Care Ideas to Benefit Your Mental Health
50 Self-Care Ideas to Benefit Your Mental Health I’ve been feeling quite burnt out lately, mostly as a result of working from home and having a harder time switching off. Self-care is extremely important at…
How to Combat Loneliness | Serendip App Collab
How to Combat Loneliness | Serendip App Collab About two years ago I wrote an article for Huffington Post about loneliness. It was featured on their website during Mental Health week in 2018 and still…
How to Tackle Burnout in Lockdown
How to Tackle Burnout in Lockdown Lockdown is not fun, and it’s been really easy to slip into burnout. I’ve experienced burnout during my experience of living in lockdown, and that doesn’t add to the…
20 Things to Do If You’ve Been Furloughed
20 Things to Do If You’ve Been Furloughed A lot of workers have been furloughed recently, including staff at my company HarperCollins. It’s a shame, but a safety measure that has been put in place…
How to Maintain Your Mental Health in Self Isolation
How to Maintain Your Mental Health in Self Isolation Right now, we’re going through a weird and lonely time. Isolation is not a state of being that many of us would choose to enter optionally.…
Things to do during Self-Isolation
Things to do during Self-Isolation Okay, we all seem to be in the same boat – or room – at the moment. Instead of doing a post on anxiety and self-awareness, I thought instead I…
30 Day Challenges | Ideas
30 Day Challenges | Ideas Last year I wrote a post on 30 Day Challenges and the challenges I was thinking of setting myself throughout the year. Since then I’ve done Blogmas, attempted a no-spend challenge…
How to Handle Blue Monday
How to Handle Blue Monday It’s Blue Monday. Blue Monday is not a holiday, or even a real day. It was made up for Sky Travel. Nevertheless, getting the blues (particularly in January) is common, so let’s discuss it.…
Top 12 Life Lessons From 2019
Top 12 Life Lessons From 2019 2019 has been a truly exceptional year for me. My mental health has improved greatly, my career has skyrocketed and I have been so lucky with all the opportunities…
Reflections of 2019
Reflections of 2019 Wow. My reaction to 2019 is simply Wow. What a year. From starting the year by going zero waste and setting myself a 30-Day Challenge to kind of cleanse myself of some…
How to Maintain Your Mental Health this Christmas
How to Maintain Your Mental Health this Christmas Christmas can be tough for many reasons, so you need to make sure you’re taking care of your mental health over the festive season Christmas, for the…
How Much Does it Cost to be Single?
How Much Does it Cost to be Single? In answer to my question: a lot. When you’re single you don’t have the support of a partner to split the bills at dinner, or share the…
Should Every Company Have a Mental Health First Aider
Should Every Company Have a Mental Health First Aider This post is an article I wrote about mental health first aiders for a website. The posting of which has since fallen through. As such, I thought…