Little Things You Can Do When You’re Feeling Blue
Give yourself a break and try not to feel guilty for your emotions. It’s normal to feel a little blue, so, with the last strand of motivation I have left, I’ve pulled together a list of small activities that have helped over the past 11 months.
Kris Hallenga: Her Story
23 years old, travelling, falling in love, making plans, living your best life. Then you find a lump on your boob and you’re told it’s not only cancer, but it is in fact incurable. This is what happened to Kris Hallenga in 2009.
What to Expect From a Mammogram
Mammograms are x-ray images of the breast. They are used to detect early signs of breast cancer before they become physically noticeable. Mammograms are offered to all women over the age of 50 up to their 71st birthday and they are invited for a screening every three years.
Fundraising Ideas for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Here’s a list of inspiration and tips for fundraising this Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Pumpkin Spice up your Kitchen: Baking with Pumpkin
It’s a cold autumn evening, you’ve carved into your pumpkin ready to place on your porch to ward off evil spirits, and an idea begins to possess you. Maybe it’s the smell of pumpkin cooking up ideas, maybe you can’t get enough of pumpkin spiced lattes or maybe you’ve got the Great British Bake Off on your brain. Here is some tasty treats to cook up in your cauldron before the spooky season ends.
How Reading Can Help You Find Solace During Anxious Times
As someone who suffers from general anxiety the majority of the time, I’ve had to lean on a few techniques to help me navigate the discomfort of the weirdest year and 7 months of our lives.
Why Taking Mental Health Sick Days at Work is Important
Spend your mental health day the same way you would any other sick day: being kind to yourself and nursing yourself to health.
Subverting Expectations for World Mental Health Day
I think World Mental Health Day is great. I know some people are of the ‘we shouldn’t need a specific day to talk about mental health’/’it’s pointless because everyone forgets about it the next day’ schools of thought, but I’m a little more optimistic. We have to start somewhere, and if that means talking about it for one day a year, that’s better than talking about it for no days a year, right?
A Message From A Breast Cancer Survivor
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a world-wide annual campaign, which involves thousands of organisations aiming to spread as much awareness as possible on the cause during the month of October.
Remembering Sarah Harding
In August 2020, Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer that had devastatingly spread to other parts of her body. Just over a year later, it was announced that Harding had died.