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April 2025
Well April just flew by! It didn't feel long ago that I was writing my March roundup post and now here I am writing an April roundup! April, thankfully, has been quieter than the last couple of months which is just what I wanted/needed. Crabbing! I sat in the garden to have my morning coffee and was desperate to get out of the house for the day. The boys appeared…
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Things That Are Therapy to Me
Last week I sat on a panel with two other colleagues, Wendy Robinson who is the Director of Services at CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) and our work Wellbeing Ambassador Jeff Brazier. The panel event topic was 'Therapy' and was filmed to be shared with colleagues in a months time. I mainly shared about my experience with seeing a therapist, briefly a…
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Things I’ve done to improve my Wellbeing - #2 Wellbeing Days
In September last year I planned to start a blog series "Things I've done to improve my Wellbeing". I wrote one post, about reading , then I didn't write any more for that series. In November I followed it up with " Things I STOPPED doing which affected my Wellbeing ". I could easily think that I failed in not continuing with that series …
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March 2025
I genuinely thought that March might be relatively quiet. Other than having plans to go to London with work for an event, I didn't think I'd have much else going on really. How wrong I was! This was my March:
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Reflections on Winning an Award
On Thursday the 20th of March I attended the Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards.
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Sleeping with Giants
If there is one person on this earth who I feel is my therapist without actually being my therapist (really, I feel like I owe him a lot of money, but I suppose buying the albums and concert tickets counts in some ways) it would be Dan Reynolds, singer of Imagine Dragons.
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What to say/not to say to a colleague with an Eating Disorder
4 weeks ago I opened up to my manager and a couple of colleagues about my food addiction.
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A Wholesome Sunday
I resisted the urge to lay in bed, sleep a little longer, scroll on my phone. I got up, made a coffee, went to put the washing out on the line (then realised the load I put in yesterday didn’t actually wash, damn it) then I did go back to bed. But with good intentions.
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I'm Lauren and I'm a compulsive over-eater
Hello. I'm Lauren and I'm a compulsive over-eater.
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Show Up, Be Brave, Be Vulnerable
For the last 3 weeks I've joined 24 Zoom meetings. I've talked on some of them, shied away on others, and until today kept my camera off.
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Just one more chapter
That’s the hardest thing about reading. Well, other than reading a book that is slow starting and hard to get into.
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The First 5 Books of 2025
Last year my Reading Challenge target was 8 books. As someone who doesn't read a huge amount it felt realistic. I exceeded that by reading 15. This year I've set my challenge at 11. Even though I managed 15 last year and could have had that as my goal this year I again wanted to be realistic. I didn't want to set something that might not be manageable and…
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2024 Books
I wrote recently about how last year I really enjoyed reading and found it helped my mental health a lot. I had a few months break due to grieving a book I'd finished ( more about that here ).
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25 Things I Like About Myself
My bucket list includes "Make a list of 25 things I like about myself". It feels like it might be easy. Just 25 things that you like about yourself. It's really not. "List 25 things you dislike about yourself" would be easier but.... just 25 ? I could list more than that! And I guess that's the reason behind me putting that on my list back…
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Things I STOPPED doing which affected my Wellbeing
It’s so easy to sit and “preach” about the things we do which have helped our mental health. I do it myself. And was due to write a series of things I had done to improve my Wellbeing (the first post I wrote was about reading). I was feeling so in control of everything. Balanced. Striving. I felt good inside and out. I see so often "Simple steps to improve your…
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Things I’ve done recently to improve my Wellbeing - #1 Reading
I really enjoy reading BUT I am also easily distracted by social media or I just get lazy. I recently wrote about a quirk of mine: “ I have this "quirk" (I'm using the word quirk because I learnt in therapy that if I use words such as silly then I am telling other people the things I do are silly, and I don't think this. It is a quirk I suppose w…
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Just Eat Bread
When the word addiction is mentioned I think thoughts immediately go to drugs, then alcohol, nicotine, gambling, caffeine or sugar. I’ve always had an issue with food. It was only this year I was able to recognise, with the help of my boyfriend, that I have a food addiction. For years I’ve used food as both comfort and also as a form of harm. If I’m feeling stres…
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17 Days Straight
I worked 17 days straight. I can’t tell you how many hours I worked in those 17 days, I wasn’t doing standard work hours. I didn’t count the hours. I worked 2 of my weekends off and through two lieu days. I’ve worked really hard on my work/life balance. It used to be awful. Constantly checking emails out of work time to “make it easier when I return to work on Monda…
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