I felt really awkward when I started my Gratitude Journal. They're kind of a big thing right now. You can use them in different ways, but they work on the essential idea that grateful people are happier, live longer, have less health problems, all that kind of thing. They're basically great for your mental health …
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Do you find yourself taking on other people's problems or fix them? Do you find that tension and confrontation makes you immediately feel uncomfortable? Do you sometimes have trouble saying no? Then you might be one of the millions of people whose lives are controlled by their people pleasing behaviour. Dr Ilene Cohen PhD is …
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When I was a kid, my Mum made a lot of our clothes. I know that when she was growing up, she sometimes made her own clothes, too. She made her own wedding dress. My grandmother knew her way around a sewing machine too. Her clothes were pretty incredible actually. My point is this: …
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When I was really small, my family lived in Victoria, my parents and me, and my older brother. My grandparents lived in Sydney, and because we lived so far away, they didn't see us much at that age. My grandmother, being the creative person that she was, used to write stories for my brother and …
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The word Bedlam became part of common usage as a slang word for chaos, anarchy and mess, but was originally a well known hospital for those suffering from mental illness. It was established in 1247 and existed at different sites til the 1930's. It's history is the history of the treatment for people who were …
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This post first appeared on TinyLetter.com, which is a service which I use to send more personal letter-like mailings to my readers. It's a look into the more personal side of my life, so you have to be signed up to read them. All you need is an email address to get on this mailing …
Have you signed up to my Tiny Letters yet? TinyLetter.com allows me to send out more personal emailed letters to you, my readers, about my life, my thoughts, ...anything. If you like my blog, but would like something more internal and personal, this is the sign up for you. Go to: https://tinyletter.com/CravenWild and enter your email. I …
I was sent this book by the publisher (Homeport Press) for an honest review. A Book Of Revelations is a group of short stories by award winning author AC Burch, and the stories are all set around the areas that the author knows well: Provincetown and South Beach. The stories in this collection all focus …
I've been tagged twice recently in a blog challenge to tell you all ten things about me. SO, just for fun, I put it in a video. It's plenty awkward, but if you're interested in knowing more about me, you probably want to know what I look and sound like, right? Click below to watch. …
London is often called a green city, because although it's very densely populated and built up, it's also got some truly lovely large parks and gardens. One of the smaller gardens is in Chelsea, and contains the second oldest botanical garden in the UK. Chelsea Physick Garden was established in 1673, and remains to this …
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