So today is world mental health day, a day when hopefully many of you are having conversations about mental health and what this means to you. I have just returned from a trip away. A trip that I went on without my family, to visit some friends overseas. It was some much needed time out. For the past few years I have been working several jobs, birthing and bringing up two small children, studying for a doctorate & running the household. Prioritising myself had fallen to the b

As you may know, this week is Mental Health Awareness Week. This year the focus is on stress and how to cope with it. We all get stressed from time to time and that's part and parcel of life. It becomes problematic when we don't do anything to manage it. Suddenly everything can start to pile up. Our inner container can begin to overflow and this is when we start to falter. Perhaps we become more snappy, or moody, too tired to engage, angry, tearful or pull away from others. E