"Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. ~ Bobby Flay So, since I've been unwell recently, and diagnosed first with an underactive thyroid and then with a vitamin D deficiency, I've become a little bit obsessed with the nutritional values of absolutely everything… Continue reading A Fish And All The Vegetables In The Fridge Tagine
(Image via Planned Parenthood: How To Use Menstrual Products Superpost) “I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.” ~ Andrea Portes So, you remember how a little while ago I told… Continue reading See How Other People Feel About Their Periods
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably and they remember the woman." ~ Coco Chanel So, I've been going to as many blogging events as I can lately. I thought it would be nice to meet more people offline who know what I'm talking about when I talk about blogging; and I've learned a… Continue reading A Pretty New Dress
“It wasn't merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired I was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.” ~ Josh Lanyon Can I just start by saying that if you are exhausted all the time, if you… Continue reading You Probably Have A Vitamin D Deficiency
"Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child." ~ Willie Stargell Simple pleasures... >...stillness and birdsong >...your favourite song on the radio >...a long, leisurely bath or shower >...the pop of a new mascara >...hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows >...kittens >...getting home to your couch after a long day… Continue reading Simple Pleasures 2
"It takes, on average, six attempts to find the antidepressant that works for you." ~ my social worker I haven't really mentioned mental health medication since I named this page after one and explained what it was and my experiences of it. And I'm not actually on that one any more. I do make a… Continue reading Some Thoughts On Medication
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” ~ Susan Pease Banitt Facebook reminded me last week that it was four years to the day since my mental health coming out party. Or as I titled the event at the time my Taking Down My Christmas Tree Party. Because… Continue reading My Mental Health ‘Coming Out’ Party
“If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.” ~ Charles Dickens Simple pleasures... >...freshly clean sheets >...a tasty home cooked meal >...when a baby smiles back at you >...the perfect cup of tea >...a cool, refreshing drink on a hot, sunny day >...the smell of freshly cut grass >...bread just out of… Continue reading Simple Pleasures
(Image Source: Getty Images) “Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?” ~ Milan Kundera A, somewhat delayed, return to our #haveyouhadanorgasm series then. In the first post we mentioned that there is a of pressure surrounding sex… Continue reading Sex Under Pressure
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” ~ Jennifer Niven Mental illness is not... > ...your… Continue reading Mental Illness Is Not…
Make-Up & Mirtazapine 