A Published Poet Part Two

by | May 29, 2020 | Blog

Last year I entered a Mental Health Poetry competition with Make Our Rights Reality (MORR), my poem Did You Know made it in the top 25 and the prize was for my poem to be published in an anthology. The digital anthology has been released, the physical anthology will...

5 C’s To Managing My Anxiety

by | Dec 30, 2019 | Uncategorized

For the last decade, I have been suffering with crippling anxiety. As I made the transition from my teens to my twenties, my anxiety continued to grow and I started to feel like I was no longer in control of my thoughts, emotions, actions or behaviour. This year, it...

The Truth About Living With Mental Illness.

by | Aug 12, 2019 | Uncategorized

For a long time I used this blog as a platform to write about my life. It was a place of freedom. It was a space where I could write down the uncensored and vulnerable musings of my experiences, to share a little piece of my world with others. Then, last year, I had...

Cross-Stitch To Calm

by | May 5, 2019 | Uncategorized

Two months ago, I decided to start doing a craft. I’ve always wanted to cross-stitching, so I bought myself a sewing box, a selection of threads and material, I was ready to get started. For someone who hasn’t done cross-stitching before, I found it a...

Why I Had To Walk Away From Teaching.

by | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog

Teaching has broken me. I remember the excitement, the childlike giddiness I felt when I first walked into the classroom as a volunteer a few years ago. I loved working with the children and as I watched the teacher at the front, I knew that I wanted to do that too....