As a writer (I still get a jolt when I refer to myself as a writer, I wonder if that will ever go away?), I have had my fair share of blocks. A lot of mine are to do with my health, but a lot of them are also to do with my mental patterns [...]
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Talking to Walls
May 14th, 2013Thinking of travelling to the UK?
May 2nd, 2013Thinking about travelling to the UK for longer than a couple of weeks? Maybe for a few months or even a few years? I moved to the UK last year and I want to share what I know. Passport and Visa If you are planning to work or study, make sure you have a visa. [...]
Labelling and Mental Health
April 4th, 2013In this blog Xin takes a look at how a mental health label can impact on you and how others perceive you, sometimes this can be helpful, and other times we have to take a moment to look beyond the label given. I recently wrote a blog article on the power language has of shaping [...]
The S word
March 25th, 2013Language shapes the way we see the world. When we are infants, we have no way of articulating the overwhelming flood of stimuli we are experiencing. As we learn to speak, we start to categorise the world into easily-understandable groups. We understand “dog” refers to the small things with four legs, “tomorrow” is the day [...]
How to be unemployed and meaningful
March 18th, 2013I studied for about eighteen consecutive years before I decided that I would take some time off. Study had been all I’d ever known, and for the most part, I was pretty good at it. But in my fourth year of my degree, I realised that (for various reasons) I was no longer passionate about [...]
What’s your dream, are you ready to live it?
March 14th, 2013So where are you? Are you in high school feeling the pressure of having to think about what career you have to choose before looking at university courses? Or are you at uni and having second thoughts about the course you chose? Maybe you dropped out or just finished a degree and are unsure of [...]
How do you feel about you?
March 5th, 2013In today’s blog, Skye asks how do you feel about your body image and reports on a survey she undertook amongst her peers about body image. First of all, what is body image? Is it the way we see ourselves? The way we feel about our body’s appearance? The thoughts and beliefs we have about [...]
Living a balanced life
February 19th, 2013TINO has a really great Topic page dedicated to health and wellbeing. It talks about some ways to live and be healthy, and I recommend the factsheet by Reach Out which you will find on the page in particular. But there’s more to being healthy than just diet and exercise (though those can’t be overlooked). [...]
