Five years ago today, I launched Thrive In Chaos and sent this post out into the world. I established this blog as a means of dealing with a difficult time in my life. I wanted to create a place where I could foster positivity and find a way to thrive, even when I felt that [...]
Day 3 of #NaNoWriMo and #wrimohero's prompt was #calltoadventure - how do you generate ideas? I get a lot of my ideas from the environment around me. Places, found objects, the weather - my imagination spots the most random and insignificant things as I’m going about my day and runs riot with them! I collect [...]
Monday yawns and Lifts a lazy head. Time for coffee... Or five more in bed? Tuesday insists that It's Thursday already - I'm work worn and Emails just might overwhelm me. Wednesday declares that The worst is behind us But lengthening to-do lists Push next order of business. Thursday is buzzing - The weekend's in [...]
After a brief, unintentional hiatus, I'm back and trying to figure out how on Earth to balance a busy day job and a more-hectic-than-usual home life with the writing life I crave. During the summer lull, I had managed to start to create time during my days to write or at least play with ideas [...]
The ever so lovely tiggsybabes shared this image on Instagram earlier this week and oh how I laughed...and laughed and laughed and finally cried. It rang so true for me at the moment! My mind is definitely an overloaded internet browser right now, with poor connectivity, multiple network errors and more frozen screens than I [...]
Outside my window… the sky stretches wide and blue overhead, streaked with wisps of white. The air is warm and still. The street is quiet. A summer weekday morning lull has settled over the neighbourhood. There is a white butterfly flutter past, stark against the red brick of the house across the road. I am [...]
This week was Mental Health Awareness Week and all week I've been wanting and meaning to write something to share with you, my lovely readers. But I've had a funny mental health week and have just not quite been in the right frame of mind. I've felt edgy, restless and anxious, as if something is [...]
Yesterday, I walked in the spring sunshine with snow swirling round me on a wintry wind. I watched my spaniel companion try to catch snowflakes in her mouth and leap amongst the tussocks with sheer joy and abandon. I had taken my kindle with me because I was so engrossed in my current read (A [...]
Posted on Twitter by Complex Thoughts (@imheterogeneous).
Image found here. When we are struggling with mental health it is easy to fall into the trap of wishing to be 'normal'. Wishing to be like everyone else. Believing that because we struggle we are somehow not normal. Well normal is an illusion. What is 'normal' for the spider is chaos for the fly. [...]
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