Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives ~ Csíkszentmihályi Last year I wrote about the benefits of 'flow state', or being 'in the zone' or 'in the groove'. In...
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Unleash The Writer Within
So, you want to write but you don't even know where to begin? I believe there is a writer in all of us. Some of us have no interest in tapping into it, and there are some of us who feel...
How I Survived Psychological Abuse In The Work Place
This blog post continues from part 1 of this story, The Damaging Effect Of Psychological Abuse In The Workplace According to humanrights.gov.au, Workplace bullying is a form of...
The Damaging Effects Of Psychological Abuse In The Work Place
The worst things about emotional, and mental abuse (also known as psychological abuse) within the workplace is that: Sometimes you don’t know It’s happening until you leave the...
Moments Of Madness
Mental illness is not a single breaking point, a sudden meltdown that pounces out of the blue. In reality, there are months or years of accumulated stresses and fractures, grinding you...
Bad news isn’t always bad news
Around three years ago now my life took a sudden and scary turn. I suffer from migraines and every now and then I have to get an MRI (to check I still have a brain, I assume). This time...
Life Lessons My Bed Taught Me
The core concepts we need throughout our journey is consistency, dedication, patience, self-compassion and self-love. My first challenging life experience was 18 years ago when I was in...
Finding Courage Through Music
Towards the end of 2015 and in my second year of studying an undergraduate degree in Art Theory and Music, I felt my life was improving dramatically compared to my first year where I...
The link between creativity, story telling and healing
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a...
Dare To Be Different
Living abroad in a different culture and putting your skills and your talents to test, is an adventure that I experienced not once but twice. It was the year 2001, and fresh from nursing...
Breaking the Cycle
In life there are cycles. Repetitive and entrenched, sometimes bringing good things and other times not. Cycles can be broken. The first time I remember feeling like I was worthless was...
How a breakdown made me resilient
According the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), Psychosis is a syndrome defined as a mental state with at least one of the following...
