Category: mental health
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The Courage To Be Different
Wine Club was as messy on Saturday as a girlfriend predicted. What’s a girl to do when faced with the challenge of an esky overflowing with the best Chardonnays? Such shockingly poor self-discipline determined that Sunday would be a write-off, a day for recovery, when I could lament my poor choices, suffering liver and middle-aged…
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Fear of Ageing and How I Wish I’d Started Walking Years Ago
I apologise sincerely for neglecting you this past week, although I did warn you that I was about the enter a period of life-sucking demands from the day job, and it’s only today that I’ve managed to raise my head above water again. So I’m finally squeezing out a post so you don’t forget about…
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The 5 Ways I’m Restoring My Mental Health
Taking the ‘body’ theme a step further from my last post, I’ve been feeling a lot better in my body recently. And when I say ‘in my body’, what I’m really talking about, is in my head. This image came up under ‘positivity’… which is obviously why I used it…PHWOAR! But first of all, (and…
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Valentines Night With The FailArmy
One of Kurt’s greatest pleasures in life, apart from winding me up, is watching FailArmy videos on YouTube. These are videos of those idiots (usually men) that derive pleasure from doing wacky, dangerous stunts, the insanity of which more (often than not), land them in sticky situations, if not hospital. Typical stunts might include jumping…
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Living Each Day And Surviving Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare
The most annoying thing about being the mother of a rebellious eighteen-year old is that you can’t always ensure they go out in their best underwear. That was one of the things that went through my mind on Thursday as we wove our way through city traffic to every parent’s worst nightmare… After the call…to say…
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Do You Ever Feel Really Alone?
I’ve been sleeping better recently, in spite of the dastardly Sydney humidity at this time of the year – I suppose it’s one small positive to be had out of the daily bleakness associated with giving up caffeine. But the other night something woke me up at 3.30am. You know that feeling, when your eyes…
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Mental Illness: Crazy, Bad or Misunderstood
How did you spend your Sunday afternoon? I spent mine mine devouring a riveting series that I missed on the ABC last year about a mental health hospital in Sydney. That’s just the kind fun person I am. But what’s interesting, is where once the subject of mental illness was a taboo one, locked firmly…
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2016 Will Be About Me
I’ve decided that New Year’s resolutions are just so 2015. Ambition Key On Keyboard Meaning Target Aim Or Goal Have you noticed how women often link theirs to self-improvement rather than ambition? How we focus on the stuff we don’t do well? Probably because we are continually reminded that we are not perfect. And I’m…
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How A Small Part Of You Celebrates When A Friend Fails At Parenting, Too
Just as a small part of you dies when a friend succeeds, (according to Gore Vidal), a small part of me celebrates triumphantly when a friend fails spectacularly at parenting, like I have so many times. Do you know what has truly kept me sane through all these troubled ‘Kurt years’? It’s the support of…
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Sometimes It Feels Good To Coast
For those of you who read my posts for my input on ADHD, I discovered the most fantastic read on ADDitude magazine last weekend by Frank South, aka ADHD Dad. It just so happens his post was about his twenty-three year old son, who sounds suspiciously like he is carving a similarly dodgy career to…
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My Top 3 TV Series For The Holidays
With the holidays looming tantalisingly closer, what better way for life’s real achievers (such as myself) to waste our hard-earned free time than by watching back-to-back series on Netflix? Personally, I find a lot of the answers to life’s problems from tv. At the moment, my top 3 series of choice are Mad Men, Friday…
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Don’t Let Your Children Define You
I reach the other other end of another decade next week, which has given me pause for reflection. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/566419105 I entered this last decade with a new life in Australia, but ‘life’ as such is rarely defined by the country you inhabit, rather the people you inhabit it with. Inevitably, my most recent decade has…
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