Mental Health

When I was 10 years old, one of my favourite authors, Jaqueline Wilson released a new book named The Worry Website. The story centred around a website created by a primary school teacher that aimed to replace circle time and act as an anonymous place for the children to share …

I have wanted to share my thoughts on everything that’s going on currently for a while now, however, whenever I actually come to write, I feel immediately silly responding to what’s going on as I am just an ordinary person. I don’t work on the frontline as a key worker, …

An overwhelming amount of people that I know say that they do suffer or have suffered from imposter syndrome. I often wonder how that could possibly be the case when they outwardly appear to be absolutely smashing life?  With more and more tales of imposter syndrome rearing its ugly head …

A little slice of tranquil in my parent’s garden.  Millennial burnout.  Over the past couple of years, I have read more and more think pieces discussing and unpacking ‘millennial burnout’ and what exactly that means. For me personally, it was this Buzzfeed news piece by Anne Helen Peterson that was the first …

Like most millennials born in the early 90s, I pretty much grew up online. At primary school, we had access to those cumbersome Acorn computers in the dedicated ‘computer room’, and from the age of 6/7 onwards, my family always had a computer at home too. When I think about it, …

I was recently listening to the gorgeous Fearne Cotton on Russell Brand’s podcast ‘Under the skin’. Fearne happened to talk about how important it is to her, that her house is kept in an order that makes sense to her. AKA tidy. Fearne went on to say that when her ‘environment …

The truth is, I actually feel awkward saying that when it comes to my mental health, chronic anxiety is my vice. The reason I feel tentative putting this out there on the internet is because of the stigma and careless attitudes that still surround anxiety and mental health in general. And whilst …

When 2018 rolled around, which let’s be honest was quite a while ago now as we’ve suddenly woken up and it’s April?! I thought about the negative thoughts that I believe had been holding me back as I navigated life as a young woman going through college, university, career beginnings …

One reason why I certainly miss home…this cat! Hi i’m Hollie, i’m 23 and I still get incredibly homesick. I’ve touched upon this subject before when I was at uni, but the whole thing feels a little more embarrassing given that i’m now a proper adult who repays her student …