Nurturing yourself
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Fragile Moments
The following is a bit of a rambling rant. Please don’t feel any obligation to read it. Today I’m sad. I have had an exhausting week up in Sydney doing training for my day job. The stuff covered was leadership, conflict management, and HR skills. Four and a half days of trying to work out…
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So, how have you been lately?
I feel like I haven’t been updating as often as I should, and I’m sorry to say it’s because I haven’t been doing so great lately. I’ve been dealing with some stuff that’s come up in therapy and to be honest it’s been taking up a lot of my time just keeping myself afloat. I’ve…
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Writing Exercise
As part of the Penguin workshop we were given a scenario and 7 minutes to write something about it. I thought I would share it with you, it just goes to show that even when you think you have nothing to write, you can find something. Stimulus: We are at a very fancy party, a…
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Yes, it’s a New Year’s Resolutions post
I was thinking about not posting anything for New Year’s but I have been spending a lot of time over the last couple of days thinking about resolutions. Last year I didn’t really make any resolutions because I felt like I’d made all the changes I wanted to make in November. I feel a little…
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A writer’s voice
Earlier today I worked on some of my memoirs and I was surprised by the difference I felt in my own writer’s voice. I have a theory that the exercise of writing my novel has changed the way I write. A lot of people have told me over the last year or so that you…
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Survived!
This month I have been quiet because I undertook to do NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. The goal was to write a 50,000 (or more) word novel entirely in the month of November. On Monday I submitted my novel to the NaNobots and they confirmed that I had 50,131 words. I WON! My first…
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Why can’t I just stay in bed?
It’s hard to explain my depression to someone who’s never been through it. It’s normal for people to feel sad sometimes, everyone has times like that and there is a comfort in knowing that you have something to be sad about. For me, at this moment in time, I’m sad for no reason. I feel…
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Accepted!
I found out on Thursday that a short story I submitted was accepted to be published in a local writers’ magazine. Now I don’t know exactly what the distribution of the magazine is, nor what sort of scope of readership it has but none the less – I will soon be able to say that…
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What it means to admit I have depression.
I have struggled with depression a lot in my life I have just turned 28. The first time I was referred to the school counselor I was 11 years old. After that I saw several counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists and family therapists throughout my school life and early adulthood. When I was 14 I tried to kill myself. Not…
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Renewing Old Friendships
I have written before about how my journey has taken me away from people who used to hold important places in my life. This last week I made it my goal to get back in touch with people who I believe are going to be positive influences in my life but with whom, for various…
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