Tag: mental health
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It’s Ok to Let Things Go
Sunday 13 March Letting things go is one of the hardest things to do. It takes so much mental strength to be able to detach yourself from a situation, a relationship or friendship. In order to grow, we need to go through this unthinkable task and get to the other side. Change is never easy.…
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ED Awareness Week: Post 6– Conclusion
Saturday 5th March Since posting a lot over the last few days, I have received a lot of positive feedback and comments from friends and family and even strangers. It’s been so encouraging to know that people are there to support me and this has made me feel so grateful to have these kind of…
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Social Media & Eating Disorders
It’s Day 2 of EDAW (Eating Disorder Awareness Week) and today I’m coming to the subject of social media. More and more in the news and media we see promotions of easy “dieting” and “fasting”, new ways to “lose weight quick” and “get skinny” for the summer. I want to share with you today some…
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My Journey
This is the scariest thing I have ever written. How do I start writing about the darkest time of my life? Ok, that started off pretty dreary. I promise you that’s not what I intend to do by sharing my own story with an eating disorder: anorexia. That word alone scares me, and it has…
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The Difficult Subject: Eating Disorders
This week is Eating Disorder Awareness Week, established by BEAT, the leading charity and organisation for eating disorder awareness globally. For me, this is a very important week as I can voice my thoughts on the topic more and share my own story. It is also very scary. Right now, BEAT estimates around 1.25 million…
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Limitations
Growing up it feels like we have endless constraints forced down on us. We’re not allowed to do this, not allowed to do that. Be it because you have strict parents, or you are too young. There’s always rules to follow when you’re in school and living under your parent’s roof. But this doesn’t change…
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Being Alone is OK
Hi, welcome back to Pepetoe. How are you liking the new design? I am in the process of making slight amendments to the colourings and layout of the posts and home pages, so bear with me as I mess around with it! Today’s topic: what it means to actually be alone. I wanted to come…
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REST DAYS💕
Whether it’s a literal day off from exercise or a mental rest day (usually these two go hand-in-hand), rest days are so important for our wellbeing. For some people, it helps to schedule a ‘rest day’ into the week – for a lot this may be a Sunday. I agree with this method, as you…
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Why being social 24/7 isn’t worth it.
Every day we do not have to be social. Every day we do not need to force ourselves to be social because it is tiring. Each day, with different people we put on different pretences, pretending to be someone different. And it’s draining. We all do it and it’s normal — unfortunately it is a…
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Happy New Year!
It is finally 2022! We made it through yet another year with the core of it being the Covid-19 Pandemic. If you had asked me at the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020, or even as it began to arise in China at the very end of 2019, if I thought it would last well…
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