Tag: mental-health
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You Belong
Sometimes I feel invisible,like my edges blurand the world forgets the shape of me. Sometimes I watch the world in motion,voices weaving past me,laughter echoing without me. I wish for presence near me,a shoulder, a breatha weight that says you are not alone.Not talking just being. But then I take a quiet moment to notice,and…
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I climbed a mountain
I started off putting one foot in front of the other, head down and pure determination flowing through my body to get to the top. Breathless, aching, but unwilling to stop. The summit was all I could see. “This isn’t that bad,” I thought. Why was I so nervous before? Light work! But gradually the…
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What I see
Hey, Can you hold space for me? Everyone always talks to me.But no one really listens to me. They stand in front of me searching and judging. I am with them in their most vulnerable moments- their quiet companion. Yet no one ever asks me what it is I truly see. I see red teary eyes finally releasing…
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Anxiety – the buzzing bee
The buzzing bee is making its way towards me. It begins as a faint hum in the distance.I sense its approach even before it reaches me. It doesn’t care how unwanted it is here. It announces itself anyway. The presence is sharp and prickly. Immediately my body flinches. On high alert. Bracing. I sway from left to right to…
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Leadership- giving and receiving the permission to be human
It was a long morning. The clock showed 11am but it felt like hours has passed just trying to calm the chaos. It was my first day back from annual leave, I was trying to switch back into “work mode.” An overflowing inbox, a regulator to keep happy and catching up on all the moving…
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Dear perfectionism,
Dear perfectionism, You can step back now. The comment, the reaction, the situation which summoned you to come to protect me is has now gone. The danger has subsided, and you can too. And if it ever comes back, I will meet it differently. I am learning how to hold myself. I know you came…
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I see you
This is for all the men. You deserve to be seen as you are. It’s not about repeating “it’s okay not to be okay”. It’s not even about urging you to speak up, or figure out the problem and fix it. It’s about reassuring you that you can be seen as you are without anyone…
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Gratitude – for every little thing
Comfort for me is created when I am content. And in a world where everything tries to make you think you are not enough or doing enough taking a step back and appreciating everything makes a huge difference. Everywhere we go we are bombarded with ads, products which are solutions to things we didn’t even…
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Imagine
You’ve heard of reframing. You know you should expect best case scenario instead of worst-case scenario. Think positively. All that jazz. But how hard is that to really do?? How do you just switch your brain off from its default setting? I know, I have been there too. It’s pretty flipping hard. Forget glass half full, your…
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Dear body,
I don’t even know where to start. For 30 years we have been together yet somehow we have been strangers. I’ve hated you, belittled you, compared you and wished you were different. All while you fought to keep me going. You allowed me to have moments of joy even when my heart was heavy with…
Soft Armour 