Ordinary Days
When you’re struggling with Anxiety, sometimes all you wish for is to feel ordinary. To wake up without that rush of fear or unease. To be able to make dinner and clean and work and…
Category: Depression
Sleepless Struggles of Mom and Son
We all know what a struggle it can be to get enough quality sleep when you’re a parent, and some of us even have experience of insomnia too. I’m really pleased to have guest blogger…
Using Lists To Manage Anxiety
The very existence of this blog is good evidence that I find writing to be an extremely therapeutic part of the healing process, but in addition to this I also use various lists to strengthen…
Raising a Child Against Society’s Expectations
This week on My Mountain we’ve got Elizabeth MacDonald, writer at My Baby’s Heartbeat Bear. You can also follow her blog here. Today, she is writing about her more unexpected parenting methods… There are hundreds of…
Five Reasons Exercise Is Great For Anxiety
I should admit right from the off that I’m both overweight and pretty unfit so this is most certainly not one of those motivational, expert, gym-bunny posts. However I did want to share my recent…
There’s Always Something New To Learn About Anxiety
Every time I’ve struggled with anxiety I’ve ended up realising that it’s actually a learning experience. This doesn’t mean I enjoy it, believe me – I wouldn’t wish these experiences on anyone. However, I can’t…
Burn Out
Sometimes we are the worst people for taking our own advice. Since becoming a mum and suffering from PND & Anxiety I’ve become a huge advocate for self-care. I didn’t really even know what self-care…
Overcoming Fear Of Pregnancy In Older Women
This week on My Mountain we’ve got Kristi Cathey from Intelligent Mother discussing a phobia that is more common than we realise… The people of ancient times have never been wrong when they said that…
What Is Perinatal OCD & Why Don’t Our Doctors Understand It?
Last week the inspiring Dr Carrie Ladd (RCGP fellow and developer of the Perinatal Mental Health Toolkit – read more here) invited Sarah and I to speak to a large group of local GPs about…
How do you explain depression to your children?
We’ve got such an important topic for this week’s My Mountain from Jane Jones*. Explaining mental health to our children is absolutely vital but it can also be really daunting… I’ll start with a little…