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Having a recent tattoo by super talented Ben Harper of Vintage Inx, Basildon, we got chatting (I do love a chat while getting tattooed!) about the many benefits of having tattoos. It got me thinking, and I decided to share all the benefits relevant to me. It’s, surprisingly, a lot. I hadn’t realised. Although a ……Continue reading Tattoos and me; nine reasons why having tattoos is good for me and my mental health, confidence, sense of belonging and much more I recently wrote a blog post about the expectations we personally have of others’, events and ourselves. (click HERE to read it) Today, I want to talk about how to deal with the expectations other people have of us. We can control our own expectations, but we cannot control what other people expect of us, ……Continue reading Expectations other people put on us – how to react and decide what is important and what is not Even the most relaxed people have expectations – it’s human nature. Whether it’s expecting the weather to be as the forecast predicts, that our parents or siblings will be a certain way as family members, or that our job will be secure in the future. From the small stuff to the big stuff, we have ……Continue reading We all have expectations of other people, nature and self; but how can we tweak them to live a more satisfying life? This post follows on from this one MUM – FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA TO DEMENTIA IN 60 YEARS (click the link to open it in a new window) So, here goes a life, trashed from her twenties, double trashed from her eighties. Some would say it’s a great thing to mum and dad June 2017 at ……Continue reading So here goes a life – mum, dad, myself, mental illness and forward we go in change ‘Assumption’ – something that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof. We can believe many things, and make them our stories, but it doesn’t make them true. We can believe things from: our own imagination our own ideas our judgements of others’ our judgements of ourselves (we can project our judgements ……Continue reading Assumptions, and why they can be so negative for ourselves and our relationships It’s Mental Health Awareness week, 16th to 22nd May 2016; read my memoir and self-help book for FREE16th to 22nd May 2016 is Mental Health Awareness Week. Now, I have been writing about, campaigning about, suffering from, and recovering from, mental health issues for many years now, and have a multitude of blog posts on this site, so I will invite you to take a look around via the categories on the ……Continue reading It’s Mental Health Awareness week, 16th to 22nd May 2016; read my memoir and self-help book for FREE |
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