This week was Mental Health Awareness week, and the theme this year is nature. Usually starting the second Monday of May, the Mental Health Foundation has run its awareness week every year since 2001. The theme of nature was chosen as many people have turned to nature during the pandemic to help improve their psychological [...]
Inaugural Tulip Festival Over 100,000 tulips have been planted for the inaugural tulip festival at Hampton Court. The festival was for 3 weeks and ended earlier this week. Hopefully there will be another tulip festival next year, of course I'm biased - tulips are my absolute favourite. These flowers are so colourful and vibrant. I [...]
What a month. Started off super busy and then ended up super ill. Lots of chocolate, of course it was Easter, and lots of sleep and napping. Also a little bit of escapism, delving into TV shows and watching some really great and hilarious films. Everyone needs a little escapism every now and then. I [...]
I recently watched, and wrote about, a webinar about living well and energy levels. The webinar also spoke about how to create healthy long term habits and how to break bad habits. What I love about these webinars is not just gaining a better understanding around why we do what we do, but actually having [...]
I was inspired this week by watching a webinar about living well. This was presented by Jana Nightingale, who raises self-awareness on personal development. It was quite insightful and I learnt a lot, and it really made me self reflect. The Brain History The webinar opened on a brief history of the lives our ancestors [...]
Back to basics in March, it seems. Reading over the daily gratitudes, I appear to be quite focussed on food, tea, rest, and writing. I've also noticed that I mentioned work a lot, I think because the new work has been super supportive and really creative in virtual collaboration and employee wellbeing. I'm really impressed [...]
I listened to an Asian Boss Girl podcast episode recently about therapy and mental health (episode # 61) and it was really insightful. I absolutely love this podcast - the topics dive into some really deep issues. Indirect Trauma One of the things I learnt about was vicarious trauma, or indirect trauma, where one feels [...]
So it's taken about 5 to 6 months but we've finally finished our Paint by Numbers of Van Gogh's The Starry Night. I think I realised that Vincent Van Gogh was my favourite painter after visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam a couple of years ago and was just blown away by his art and tragic [...]
Endless May Dreams 