Hey, Peeps, it’s me! Not a blog tour, not a review, no birthdays or anniversaries to celebrate, just me here to have a catch up. Some of you have been here since the beginning of my blogging journey, which started nearly ten years ago. And over that time, aside from me discussing topical issues, sharing family and cat stories, poetry and my writing journey, I have also documented when I have…

Research is now catching up with what millions of health practitioners have been saying all these thousands of years, that the gut and brain are connected, intricately, to where the bacteria that are in the gut are also in the brain. If you have problems in the gut, you will have problems in the brain, ranging from cloudy thinking, loss of memory, and possibly advanced problems such as…

Happiness is…A Rainy Day or Six

To some happiness is a feeling of joy and of peace.  To others happiness is a fun time spent with friends or strangers, and still to others happiness is a moment of accomplishment. However each of us decide to define happiness, to me it is something that usually comes from unexpected happenings. When you least expect it is when you find it, fleeting or not. In a recent rainy day, let me correct…

Self Care Notebook #3: Self Care Is A Divine Responsibility

New campaign video #1! Let’s discuss, let’s debate, let’s fight the stigma!!!!

This is so, so important, not just to me but millions of other people and their loved ones who have mental health issues. This stigma needs to go away, because the effect is atrocious - for example people with depression tend to feel worthless as it is; with others using the word 'depressed' as an everyday term significantly adds to the feeling of not being 'bad enough' to get help. It's also incredibly deriding of how dreadful it actually is to live with the illness, there is already one suicide every 10 seconds, lets reduce the stigma to reduce the stats. Please support this campaign! Cai (Mentality Campaigner)