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Escaping your comfort zone
A coldish evening and I am back from a class on how to give a presentation, cradling a mug of celebratory hot chocolate. Even the thought of the lesson h...
Seeing afresh
It’s the weekend, and a cousin has brought her three-year-old daughter, Hannah, for lunch. She is playing with our pink pig salt shaker on the kitchen table, pi...
Celebrating
As someone with school-age children, I am still in a world of milestones and congratulatory moments: certificates, the odd cup (well, one awarded to a son for his &ls...
Socialising and friendships
There’s a joy to voluntary solitude when we happily spend time with ourselves. No one put it better than the poet, William Wordsworth:
When from o...
Enjoying simple pleasures
One of my simple pleasures is scraping the chocolate froth off the top of a cappuccino in my local cafe?. It’s a small delight that sets my heart be...
Smiling and laughing
My niece is still at that delightful age when she laughs at her own jokes. She recently shared a few of her latest offerings: how many tickles does it take to ...
Five years ago, I wrote a memoir Black Rainbow about suffering from severe depression. At the time, the most common reaction was that I was brave to open up about the condition. St...
“Self Love” is a song that is sung by SANE: Changing Mental Health for Good supporter Shocka. I really like this song because of the beat, and the message it sends. It ...
Do you ever feel guilty? I do. Do you ever feel guilty for having a mental illness? I do sometimes.
If I am being honest, I feel guilty one heck of a lot. In fact, I actually stopp...
Hello! My name is Rebecca and I’m currently a second year in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. In my spare time here at uni I enjoy being a student ambassador, ru...
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