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Guest Writer - A letter to my 17-year-old self

Guest Writer - A letter to my 17-year-old self

Featured WritersVeronica O18 September 2017guest, cancer, mental health, advocate Comments

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It’s okay if it takes a little longer than you thought. A lovely thing to remember from @maryfowlerrr &hearts;️

DEAR MAN teaches us a strategy for effective communication. Using this skill, we can learn to express our needs and wants in a way that is respectful to themselves and others, increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes.

DESCRIBE - Clearly and co

This five-step exercise can be very helpful during periods of anxiety or panic by helping to ground you in the present when your mind is bouncing around between various anxious thoughts.

Before starting this exercise, pay attention to your breathing

The TIPP skill is intended to change your body chemistry quickly in order to reduce the effects of an overwhelmed emotional mind; where your thinking and behaviours are controlled by your overwhelming emotions.

T - temperature - change your body tem

An important reminder and lovely artwork from @vicky_barone &hearts;️ Look how far you’ve come &hearts;️ #motivationalquotes #storyofthemind #mentalhealthawareness

Yes it does. #storyofthemind

Going through a tough time doesn’t undo the progress you have made.

One for myself today <3

I hope you can care and love yourself <3

#anxiety #mentalhealth #mentalhealthcare #mentalhealthtips #mentalhealthquotes #mentalhealthsupport #m

We all grow at our own speeds, so keep on growing.

This is one I particularly struggle with having had so many mental health interruptions over the last ten years. I feel very behind my peers and like things will take forever. So a reminder for me t

Mental Health Meds are A-OK.

⭐️ 💊 Remember - it’s okay to take medicine to feel okay.⭐️ It’s important to manage mental illness in a way which works for each of us & in an individualised way with advice from health professionals who

Yeah you go gal ;)

#anxiety #mentalhealth #mentalhealthcare #mentalhealthtips #mentalhealthquotes #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthrecovery #mentalhealthadvocate #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthawarenessmonth
#motivational

I want to hear some stories about how you are all so wonderful and how being neurodivergent plays a part in this.

I want to celebrate the neurodivergent identity and hear from you for a series on how neurodivergent people are often uniquely brillian

“I feel like I can’t understand and interpret the world the right way because
no one has showed me how...I don’t have the instruction book for life and it’s exhausting.” - Katie

I recently asked for quotes regarding yo

Your future self is looking back at you with pride.

Something to remember when times are tough. We'll admire how we managed when we look back in a few years time.

#anxiety #mentalhealth #mentalhealthcare #mentalhealthtips #mentalhealthquotes #menta

I hope you learn to see yourself with kinder eyes. I hope you learn that your days do not have to be filled with everything the world says they must be. I hope you find the beauty in letting yourself rest, in letting yourself be. I hope you will nurt

"It feels like the world just wasn’t made for me and people like me, it feels as though I’m an alien in a strange world that’s just been pretending to be a human by taking personality traits and opinions and passing them as my

One week of journaling!

I struggle to commit to these things, often because I don’t want to feel like I’ve ruined a lovely new piece of stationary with sad thoughts haha

But this week I’m going to try and do it and I encourage you

I struggle to commit to these things, often because I don't want to feel like I've ruined a lovely new piece of stationary with sad thoughts haha

But this week I'm going to try and do it and I encourage you to join in too.

Literally just write or

The FAST skill is an important component for communication as it allows you to maintain your self-respect and requires you to be truthful about the problems (even if you are tactful about how you frame them) and not to sacrifice your values or integr

I'm Veronica, I'm 27 and an #occupationaltherapy student. I run this page and create the content for social media and also articles published on the website. I have autism, I have depression & anxiety and OCD and some related disorders.

I've be

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