AMJ Blog
I have been writing a blog for some time. I use it to share my experiences and views on mental health – I had a breakdown in 2014/15 and live with depression and anxiety – and work life balance. I am passionate about working on my wellbeing and helping others to achieve and maintain the right work life balance and wellbeing approaches for them. My blog – along with my Twitter feed – comes with one health warning – if you read it you may have to hear about some of my other passions – my family, golf, Liverpool FC, communications, the Boston Red Sox, politics and the West Wing.
My favourite thing is peace and quiet, but why?
Taking stock as the year ends: including the despair I feel about NHS mental health services, eating disorder support and the scourge of anti-semitism.
Real love is agony
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what other people think about you, if you knew how little they do.”
Eating disorders: dissertation published, ‘The role of person-centred counselling in recovery from eating disorders’
Our latest pandemic: work addiction
Trying to help someone with their mental health: a tough, sometimes, helpless journey.
Have you found your people and your tribe or someone else’s?
Quiet please, I’m an introvert.
Know yourself; know your triggers; know your boundaries
Being an introvert in an extrovert world
VLOG - Busy week ahead reflections: self-care is the key for me.
2022: reflecting on my year and truly understanding my pain, grief and sadness.
Eight years since my world came crashing in around me
Feelings of rejection and being misunderstood cut very deep
Eating disorders: missing the wood for the trees.
Just because someone is smiling, doesn’t mean they are happy.
My need for reassurance goes right back to when I didn’t have it
18 years since my Mary died: a loss I still feel every day.
