Author: denise

For those who may have noticed, I did not post for the past few weeks. I am currently in the middle of different projects and working on using my time effectively to better myself and in turn, help you hopefully through what I post. I started many posts that I felt were similar to what I had done previously or did not really give what I want to you from my post. Also, during the last three weeks, I had some work deadlines, college deadlines amongst other things. I decided that it was best to not work on my writing as it was wearing myself too thin and everything would suffer.

I was gifted a tote bag a few years ago that has the caption ‘emotional baggage’ on it. I carry around my work notes from home to my office in this bag and anyone that sees it smiles and laughs. Recently it has got me thinking about what emotional baggage are we carrying around with us. With all things COVID and us continually saying others have it worse is this causing our emotional baggage bag to fill up even more?

I have done this for a year, can you believe it?!

I decided in January of 2020 that I wanted to figure out new ways of promoting myself for my future professional self, in a creative way. I had no idea what I wanted to do or how to go about it but decided that I would start up a website and start writing a blog. I created the website and realised that it is soooo much harder than I would have thought and once it was done, I left it sitting there for 2 months not really sure what to do.

A couple of weeks ago I set a mental health and well-being challenge and I said I would feedback about it and how I honestly got on with the challenge I set. I have included all the points and what ones that I managed. I will then share the impact and any changes I would make for me.

• Write down intentions that you have in relation to your mental health and well-being that you want to achieve over the next four weeks and place it somewhere you can see.

I have written a post before about falling in love with yourself, it would have been a perfect post for today but I think this one will be even better. For those that know me at all, I am not generally the hearts and over display of affections sort of person. That being said Valentine’s is one of my favourite times of the year, and I have spent most of my life single on Valentine’s day so it is not that I morph into a different person for this day. I love the chaos of men mostly rushing and going over the top with flowers and chocolates to express their love for someone at about 4 times the cost than any other time. I remember having a conversation with a male friend on one Valentine’s day about how down he was because he was single and it was Valentine’s day, as if, when you are single you are put under a microscope and looked upon like there was something wrong with you.  

I have mentioned it before and I know I will mention it again as one of my number one self-care tools. For today’s post, I am going to get into what journaling is. The positives and negatives of journaling and how to get started today. Journaling has been around for a long time and everyone is talking about it, but do we really understand what it is we are meant to be doing when it comes to journaling?