2 Years Living with Crohn's Disease
It feels like only yesterday that I wrote about the life lessons that living with Crohn’s Disease for 1 year had taught me. Yet here we are, 2 years of living with Crohn’s Disease have gone by. Read more
It feels like only yesterday that I wrote about the life lessons that living with Crohn’s Disease for 1 year had taught me. Yet here we are, 2 years of living with Crohn’s Disease have gone by. Read more
When you have a friend or family member living with a chronic illness, it is hard to know how to provide support. Even more so if you don’t have first-hand experience of their illness or what they’re going through. You feel more able to empathise with someone when you have an in-depth understanding of their situation because you have gone through the same thing. When somebody has a cold, for instance, or on a tougher note, when someone loses a loved one. We know the ‘appropriate’ ways to react in those moments because more often than not, you will know the feeling at some point in your life. Read more
In the world of goal setting and productivity, habit tracking is a valuable tool to implement into your life. I understand why too. Habit trackers are useful for introducing positive habits into your daily life. They can keep you accountable, and you can learn what is serving you and what isn’t in your lifestyle. Along with an increase in popularity in bullet journaling and planning, habit trackers appear left, right, and centre, it seems. Read more
Something that I, along with people around the world, did during January 2021 is the latest Yoga with Adriene 30 Day Yoga Journey – Breath. Read more
Welcome to the final part of a 5-part blog post series, The Wild Indoors. This is a collaborative series written together with Leah Bennett, who is a sustainability writer and researcher. Over the 5 posts, we share tips on how to bring more nature into your life in a variety of ways, even when you are staying in because of lockdown. Read more
If you have visited the blog recently, you maybe noticed a couple of changes. In particular, a page called Hearth Content (disclaimer: possible AD for my own brand?). Hearth is the home of my freelance content services. I have worked as a freelance writer and content creator ever since graduating in Autumn 2020, but it took until 2021 to make this side of my life have a proper online presence. Why? Read more
Welcome to part 4 of a 5-part blog post series, The Wild Indoors. This is a collaborative series written together with Leah Bennett, who is a sustainability writer and researcher. Over the next 5 posts, we’ll be sharing tips on how to bring more nature into your life in a variety of ways, even when you are staying because of lockdown. Read more
Welcome to part 3 of a 5-part blog post series, The Wild Indoors. This is a collaborative series written together with Leah Bennett, who is a sustainability writer and researcher. Over the next 5 posts, we’ll be sharing tips on how to bring more nature into your life in a variety of ways, even when you are staying because of lockdown. Read more
Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week 2020 may have come to end, but that doesn’t mean raising awareness for IBD, and other chronic illnesses, ends there. But why? Why talk about IBD? What’s the significance in raising awareness online? These are a few key reasons that have been on my mind lately after nearly 2 years of living with IBD. Read more
In the 2 plus years I’ve been journaling, I have never done a Christmas bullet journal setup. Yes that is correct. It’s something I always wanted to do, but things such as university and chronic illness flare ups meant that it hasn’t happened. Until now. I think we can all agree that we need some Christmas sparkle to finish off 2020 and bring some positivity to the end of a turbulent year. Read more