June - 2022

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• Samaritans 0800 726 666

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• Youthline: 0800 376 633
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Julia Grace

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Life Under Construction - BE KIND TO YOUR MIND

I've been driving this week on a piece of motorway that's been a scene of roadworks carnage for the last two years. It's been messy, frustrating and painfully under construction so long, that it seemed like it would never be finished. I could have sworn that the mess would be there forever and yet today I drive on a smooth road so seamlessly that I've almost forgotten the way it used to be. Life under construction can feel interminable. The surface is rough, the potholes are

Tiny Wins - BE KIND TO YOUR MIND

It wasn’t on the news, but it should have been…I’m talking about the ‘Perfect Ponsonby Parallel Parking’ incident that happened the other night. It was 7.25pm, dark and cold and slightly raining and my one shot to get into my gym class at 7.30 within walking distance was laid before me…but to get there I had to ace the world’s tightest parallel park. It wasn’t life or death, oh no, it was much more important than that, and I am not ashamed to admit that I totally nailed it. I

That's Not Like You! - BE KIND TO YOUR MIND

Typical. You got it wrong - AGAIN. What a muppet! How do you talk to yourself when you make a mistake? It’s too easy to be our own worst critic and tell ourselves over and over that not only have we failed, we fail as a habit. Next time you make a mistake, try using this phrase (that I learnt from my AMAZING friend Lisa McInnes Smith) instead. ‘THAT'S NOT LIKE YOU!’ The suggestion is, that it is out of character for you to get things wrong, in reality 99% of every day is gett

Keep it Simple! - BE KIND TO YOUR MIND

I just saw an ad for fat-burning slimming soap and EVERYTHING inside me wants it to be real. It’s amazing how much we want fancy solutions to our challenges. Snazzy teas and expensive exercise programmes. All too often we go looking for the complicated, and overlook the simple tools that are right in front of us everyday. Like this one. Water. H2O. And I don't mean the vitamin stuff, or the infused stuff, or even the Zero Carb stuff - (YES that is an actual thing for sale)! I