Aquatic Living I don’t know about you but I’m exhausted. Exhausted from a life lived masking ADHD, exhausted from living through a pandemic with politicians who DGAF about the ‘little people’, exhausted from war and messages of war, exhausted from the effects of age, exhausted from a year of therapy that has had me questioning …
When Life is Too Overwhelming There’s a lot going on right now. The last 6 years have been some of the most tumultuous since the post WW2 years, and that’s just on a global scale! In our own home we have been dealing with an emergency hospitalisation and life saving surgery for me and a …
A Manifesto for 2022 Last year was one of much soul searching and reflecting back in order to make sense of the here and now. I usually write my ‘new year’ posts a few days into the new year, it never seems to coalesce for me in those long, dark, stretched out days between Christmas …
Anxiety and All the Feels Our brains are amazing, most of the time! Until they begin to get stuck in the same mode, dishing out hormonal responses to things that are not actually happening, for example for someone who has an anxiety disorder. For the anxiety sufferer the brain is working against them, sending their …
Running on Empty in 2021 I have been running on empty for much of this year, if running on empty means low energy, severe brain fog and extreme fatigue. The stresses and strains of lockdowns, the ever changing rules about what’s restricted and what’s not, the strangeness of my body just simply stopping me in …
Boredom & Monotony On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off What does this switch do anyway? On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off Nothing, nothing at all On Off …
WARNING: Spoilers! I have tried to be vague but there are huge spoilers for anyone who hasn’t yet seen all the episodes and wants to. If you’d told me, back in 2008, that I would cry as much as I would laugh or be in awe of a bunch of films about superheroes, I’d have …
