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Life

How I’m Learning To Be More Grateful In Life

It can be really hard when you suffer from a mental illness to see the brighter side of life. Your thoughts consume you and you feel hopeless. Whenever I feel this way, I try to remind myself of the good I have in this world. I remind myself of the things that bring me and joy and make me happy. I do this exercise as a reminder to my brain that things are better than I think they are.

I read a book that a therapist wrote a few years ago when I was at my lowest mentally, and it gave this really good learning technique. It was saying out loud to yourself that you acknowledge your feelings. This triggers something in your brain so that you recognise that it is just thoughts, it’s not real or present. Doing this exercise and saying out loud the good things you have in life can help in the same way. It’s like you’re talking to a friend or a family member, reminding them everything will be okay. But instead you are talking to yourself.

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Guest Posts, Relationships

Learning About Toxic Relationships

Featuredby Olivia47 Comments

[Guest Post]

Hi everyone. I’m Lima, a Relationship and Lifestyle Blogger and I happen to love tasting the waters, so I have made a lot of mistakes as a Christian. I am not exactly proud of everything I have been through that’s why I teach people how to avoid them. You can read all about it here.

I remember sitting in my room and looking through the wedding invites I have for the remainder of this year, some I have to attend and others I can just watch from home. I was delighted at first about the union until I thought about the number of people that might end up rushing into relationships just because they have one or two friends that are about to say I do or are a happy couple. This still remains the major reason people try to tolerate a toxic relationship, and try to manage the hits.

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Relationships

Why Long Distance Friendships Are Worth It

Featuredby Olivia35 Comments

For most of my adult life I have had long distance friendships. Me and my friends maintain a pretty regular friendship with 4,000+ miles between us. We met when they came here to the UK from America. They came here for a semester (around 4 months) to study and work at the church I attend. Long distance friendships, similar to long distance relationships can be hard to maintain but I’m here today to tell you why they are so worth it.

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Life

How to Stop Living For The Weekend and Start Living For Everyday

October 4, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia15 Comments

I have to admit that I once was that person that lived for the weekend. I felt stuck in a job that I hated and when Friday came around its like I became a new woman. This feeling slowly went away as Sunday crept in as I knew the doom and gloom awaiting me at work on Monday. It can be really hard to get out of this mind-set, believe me I know. But once you do its the best feeling in the world.

Today I’ll be sharing some tips and tricks on how you can stop living for weekends and start living for everyday instead!

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Life

Advice For Starting a New Job During Covid

Featuredby Olivia27 Comments

I’ve been working from home now since the 17th March this year. Thats almost 7 months of my home being work, and work being at my home. It was a weird transition at first but one I have come to appreciate. I get an extra 2 hours in bed, I don’t have to do a commute, finishing work doesn’t involve a train journey home. There are so many benefits, but with anything there are downsides too. The lack of social interaction with colleagues, not having a break between home life and work life, feeling like I must be available 24/7. But please know I am so grateful. Grateful that I have been able to work all throughout this pandemic, and that my job is secure.

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Life

5 Ways To Be Productive On Rainy Days

Featuredby Olivia44 Comments

Do you like rainy days? I like them in moderation, especially if I don’t need to go anywhere that day! Sometimes it can feel so hard to be productive on rainy days. I just want to curl up in a blanket with a movie and not move all day. I always find it hard getting up in the morning too and making sure the day is productive. So today I thought I’d share some ways we can all become more productive, especially on those dark, rainy gloomy days.

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Life

A WordPress Giveaway [CLOSED]

Featuredby Olivia38 Comments

A few weeks ago I posted about a giveaway I was doing on my instagram, well today as promised here is a giveaway for my WordPress followers and blogging family! I want to take this time to say thank you and show you guys how much it means to me that you’re here with me.

THE PRIZE

In this giveaway one lucky winner will receive a business/blogger logo by me! The logo will be fully customised for your brand, down to the text font, colour and logo design. Below I have showcased some previous logos so you can see some of my work.

THE RULES

To be eligible to win you must do the following;

You MUST be following me on WordPress
Like this post
Comment on this post your favourite thing about blogging

And thats it! Those 3 easy rules and you will be entered into my giveaway!

OPENING AND CLOSING DATES

This giveaway will run from 26/09/20 – 03/10/20. The winner will be contacted on the 03/10/20 and has 24 hours to claim their prize.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

This giveaway is international. you will NOT received the logo in print form, it will be a digital logo ONLY. You are not to sell or copy these designs without the creators permission. This giveaway has no monetary value. If the winner doesn’t claim their prize within 24 hours of the announcement a new name will be drawn. The winner must be contactable via email or via their blog. This giveaway has no affiliation to WordPress, this is self funded by http://www.olivialucieblake.com

Relationships

How to Lovingly Let Go of Friendships

Featuredby Olivia37 Comments

I wrote a post a few weeks ago called ‘How to Lovingly Let Go of Relationships” and it mainly focused on relationships in the sense of romantic relationships. And I thought it would be good to talk on the subject again, but this time about friendships in particular. I think at times when friendships end it can be harder than relationships, depending on the reasoning behind the friendship ending.

Letting go of any type of relationship isn’t easy, especially when you can feel that things have shifted or changed between you. I hope to make it easier for you by going through some advice from when I have been through it myself. Its not easy letting go of anything, but we should do things in love always.

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Guest Posts, Life

How to Overcome Criticism, Fear & Disappointment

Featuredby Olivia27 Comments

[GUEST POST]

Hello, my name is Zorana from www.beautyvoyagerorg.wordpress.com. I am a travel/ lifestyle blogger writing about my travel experiences, beauty industry, mental health and self-esteem & growth . I am excited for this amazing collaboration with Olivia and at the same time I will be publishing her post on topic “How to Overcome The Challenges of Life ” on my blog so please go and check it out after you have read this post . Thank you and let’s get straight to our topic.

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Life

The Truth About Self-Love

Featuredby Olivia63 Comments

Self-love is such an up and coming topic seen on blogs in 2020. Self-love and self empowerment is raging now more than ever. I wonder why that is? I think it’s because for years and years society has shaped a mould of how we should be living our lives and so many more people are coming out to say they don’t fit the mould and don’t want to. I am here for it. In todays post we will go through a quick lesson on what self-love is, what it looks like and some truths about it too, which will hopefully teach us all a little more about the topic.

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