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How To Help An Anxious Friend – The Do’s & Dont’s

September 3, 2021September 3, 2021by Olivia10 Comments

It’s important that when someone tells us they feel anxious or down, we do what we can to help an anxious friend. A blogging friend of mine posted that she was feeling anxious and didn’t know why or have a reason as to why. After chatting with her about struggling with content inspiration she posed this question to me and said it would be an amazing post. I absolutely loved the idea so here are my tips on how to help an anxious friend.

This post today is brought to you by Debs from Fire To The Phoenix – thanks Debs for agreeing to write and guest post on my blog today! I hope everybody loves this post as much as I do! – Olivia

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Mental Health

It’s Taken Me 26 Years To Love Myself

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021by Olivia28 Comments

I can’t actually believe that its taken me 26 years to love myself, but here I am.

As many of you know, over the last 6 months I have embarked on a new lifestyle journey. Learning to love and respect my body, mind and soul. I have been exercising and eating better so that I can become better. But not only have I been learning to love my body, but myself as a whole. Never before I have I felt such peace with myself. Everyday I learn something new about who I am and who I am becoming. I have spoken to a few people about this topic, and so many have said that they are at a point even still at 40-50 years old where they don’t love themselves. Society has such a large part to play in this. With their unreal beauty standards and expectations of how we should look and be as people.

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5 Random Facts About Me

August 30, 2021August 27, 2021by Olivia25 Comments

I have realised that it’s been a while since I shared some random facts about me on my blog. It’s very rare that I share personal things about myself on here, and I really want to start doing it more often. Being a blogger can be hard sometimes, finding the fine line between inviting people into your life and oversharing. I am quite a private person, and only share private parts of my life with a select few. But, I want to get to know my audience (you!) better!

Todays post will be short and sweet, but hopefully a conversation starter for us all to get to know each other that little bit more!

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Life

We All Wear Masks – How To Be Authentic

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021by Olivia37 Comments

How to be authentic. I was scrolling through TikTok the other night [as I do most nights] & I came across a video of someone contemplating the idea that if we look at everyone’s lives as individual story books, the characters we are portrayed in said books will look different to each person. We could be the one who got away in one story while we could be the evil villian in another. How we are perceived tends to be different than how we really are. We all wear masks. And this isn’t trying to be some metaphorical pandemic controversial statement. We’ve always been wearing masks. Before, they were just more invisible.

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How to Effectively Manage Your Finances

August 11, 2021August 10, 2021by Olivia33 Comments

From a very young age, it’s so important that you learn how to manage your finances. Having money is a really big responsibility. It’s sad that alot of parents and schools fail to provide young people with the knowledge they need to learn how to properly manage their finances. It’s obviously not something you have to worry about as a young adult, but as soon as you get a job you need to know how to do it.

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Mental Health

Showing Your True Emotions is Okay & Here Is Why

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021by Olivia11 Comments

Being quiet is not always a good idea, showing your true emotions is. Nobody knows how you feel if you don’t speak for yourself. As Johnny Depp said, “People who cry are not weak. They are just tired of being strong.” If you cry, you’re not a kid. If you get angry, you’re not a psycho. If you are sorry for something then you’re not a loser. Expressing your true emotions is not at all wrong.

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How The Pandemic Has Changed Me

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021by Olivia36 Comments

I think most of us can agree, that alot has changed in the last year. Not only have our lives been flipped upside down, but I am sure many of us have deal with grief, depression and anxiety and so many other things. The last year has been such a struggle in many ways. Being isolated from our loved ones and having our daily routines thrown away. Having to adjust to our new normal has been a challenge.

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A Mental Health Catch Up

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021by Olivia39 Comments

Periodically, I love to have mental health catch ups in my real life. Having friends I can message and family I can turn to when I’m not feeling my best really helps so much. I was sat thinking about this, and then slowly came to the realisation that so many people don’t have those friends or family members to lean on in hard times. Don’t get me wrong, I never ever take it for granted, but this realisation made me appreciate those in my life a little bit more.

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How To Get Your Creative Mojo Back

July 23, 2021July 22, 2021by Olivia27 Comments

Whether you are a writer, blogger, artist, musician or anything creative, it can be hard when you feel like you have lost your creative mojo. There have been so many times during my artistic and blogging journey where I have felt like I don’t want to create. I think it would almost be impossible for us to all to keep going and going without any break at all.

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4 Things To Do Before You Rent a House

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021by Olivia13 Comments

As many of you know, I am currently on my journey in moving home and looking into how you rent a house. It’s not one of the easiest things I have ever started to do. The real estate market is really competitive and expensive at the moment. Alot of the prices of homes are increasing every day, and the demand for homes is higher than it’s ever been. Which means, people like me are struggling to find somewhere they like and can afford.

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