Making Changes that Stick Whenever we want to change something significant in our lives and yet remain ‘still’ there are usually difficult times. It’s important to know that those feelings of frustration, and the times when we’re watching ourselves from the outside are VITAL to the process of change-making. Similar to when you are carving… Continue Reading
VIDEO: Escaping a Personal Failure Story
Some thoughts to ponder and questions to ask yourself on the subject of escaping the big loud echoing voice that tells you ‘I’m a Failure’. A failure by whose standards?… If you have some tips on getting out from under a shitty self narrative, or how you got away from society’s views of what makes… Continue Reading
The best self-care is not ‘self’ oriented at all
Aren’t you sick of people missing the point? A really good idea: remembering to engage in acts of self-care- caring for yourself- to live a more fulfilled and enriched life gets taken, messed with, twisted and then somehow becomes yet another way to be a failure in society. As in, if you aren’t happy, if… Continue Reading
Do I have a Mental Illness? What ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ actually feels like
Borderline Personality Disorder: what it really feels like from the voice of lived experience… I’m wary of diagnosis. Not because it’s not useful to understand more about what’s going on with you when things really aren’t right, but because often diagnoses are: Wrong Pathologising Used by professionals to make decisions about a person’s behaviour rather… Continue Reading
