Filing Cabinet

Doctor Genevieve Browne entered her office cautiously, as if sensing something was in there - waiting. Call it intuition, a premonition or simply her own anxious thought patterns after a long weekend. Whatever it was, she was correct.  The red light on her answer machine blinked rapidly and when she got closer to it she …

Shooting

“Have you heard from him?” Margaret asked, leaning forward in the armchair. She didn’t want to be there, not in the cat hair covered chair, in Neil’s house with his Stepford wife, and not once again caught up in the storm that was Gary.  “Who?” Neil replied, seemingly forgetting the question she’d asked hopefully on …

Writing About Mental Health

Heya, So today I want to talk about something that’s pretty important to me and that’s about how you handle mental health as a writer. I’ve been pretty open with you guys that I’ve had some struggles with my anxiety but writing about my experience here is a cathartic one for me and I’ve got complete …

How To Help

Heya, So today I want to talk about how to help, in particular how to help the people in your lives who might be struggling - because even before we all went through the ridiculousness of a pandemic with all the stress, worry, anxiety and grief that comes with such a life and world changing …

THIN FICTION FRIDAYS

Heya, So, some of you might have spotted that Fridays have been a little thin in terms of the content that’s been coming out on my blog and I wanted to explain why and let you know that it won’t be so thin any longer. I’ve had a lot on outside of writing, and unfortunately …

Conscious Eating

Hey everyone, So lately I’ve been a little out of sorts. Actually, that’s a lie – I’ve been a lot out of sorts. I had a bout of anxiety and other symptoms that came from experiencing events similar to past trauma and making me feel all those emotions again, my therapist calls it retraumatising and …

Positive Effects Of Nature

Heya everyone, So it's a new year and everyone will be talking about restarts - restating diets after the Christmas break, getting back into the gym, restarting a project you gave up half way through the last year and everything else. One thing I'm going to do is do this new year is reconnect with …

A Little Bird Said

A little bird said . . . A lot. A little bird told me you don't like the dark. A little bird said you lie awake at night. A little bird said that as the morning comes and they chirrup, to herald it's arrival, Your blurry eyes and tear stain cheeks can be seen in …

Life, Or Something Like It

Hey everyone, So I've written quite a few times over the past year about my struggles with anxiety and how I've been trying to manage it during Covid, as well as just with other life stuff that's been going on during that time. Today's another one of those posts. I'm not sure if I've mentioned …

Chest

There's a constant sag to my shoulders, An ache between my temples, And a tightness in my chest. There's a space in my bed where you used to lay, Gaps on the shelf where your books used to sit, And space between my fingers where yours used to fit. There's a heaviness to your leaving, …

It’s All In Your Head

It’s all in your head, The cries in the nights, The sleepless tossing and turning, The nightmares that steal your breath. It’s all in your head, The shakes and the shivers, The continuous state of worry, The rapid beat of your pulse that rings in your ears. It’s all in your head, The crippling nausea, …