Influencers can be amazing and there are some truly inspiring individuals out there, however far too often, an unattainable approach to your daily routine is promoted. An approach that when I tried to follow, ultimately led to me burning out…
Understanding and Respecting Mental Health
As a society we are beginning to grasp the importance of understanding mental health. Lots of campaigns are encouraging people to open up and ask for help: Time to Change, Heads Together and Every Mind Matters to name a few. Even hospitality is getting involved with beer mats encouraging customers to ask ‘how are you doing really?’
Struggling with motivation this lockdown? Me too.
Being in lockdown in the run up to the festive period is not the one.
No matter where you are, be this at home with your family, at Uni, with your partner or on your own, it is a strange period to be going through…
2020 Has Been Hard for Everyone. Especially Graduates.
Linkedin If you had told me at the start of this year that I wouldn’t physically get to hand my dissertation in, I wouldn’t get a graduation, and I wouldn’t get to say goodbye to my friends at university, I don’t know how I would have got through the start of the year. At the […]
Coping with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Imagine constantly feeling restless or worried. Imagine having trouble sleeping at night and difficulty concentrating during the day. Imagine getting…
It’s the caring too much about how many followers I have for me
Okay, before we get into this one I will apologise in advance for the title. I’ve been watching far too much TikTok okay. For those of you who aren’t aggressively addicted to TikTok, therefore have no idea what the title means, let me re-write it for you: ‘Why caring about your follower count on Instagram […]
Mental Health: What I Wish I Knew Then
Instagram For those who are yet to know me, my name is Harriet Broom, but please call me Harri. Most people know me through being the new girl in primary school, working in the little village from where I have grown up, being awkward and having a crazy fashion sense in secondary school, but most […]
Things to Do while Job Searching
Linkedin Instagram Looking and applying for jobs can be a tough, stressful and overwhelming process (and that’s without a pandemic on top of it all). Whether you’re a student, graduate or someone who’s recently found themselves unemployed; it’s just as confusing for everyone, really. It can be hard to know where to start, when to […]
Why I no longer need the validation of others
Validation. It’s one of those words that I think about a lot. What it means, why humans are programmed to require it and why I have relied on it so heavily throughout my life. If you ask anyone that knows me, they will tell you I am a people pleaser (I think). I have always […]
How Spooky Season can affect your Mental Health
If you’re like me and you absolutely live for that time of year where it gets dark at 4 o’clock and you can legitimately live in bed socks, no questions asked, you might think the only way Spooky Season can affect your Mental Health is positively. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The effects of […]