Building mental wellness on a foundation of strength
It's time to take a stroll down memory lane and have a look at some of the firsts in my life. Car My first car was Jo(h)n Voigt's Lebaron (one of Seinfeld's many pop culture contributions). The '89 Chrysler Lebaron (non-convertible) was passed around from my great uncle to my grandma and her partner and… Continue reading What/When Was Your First…. ?
Amy of Sassy Cat Lady did a post like this recently, and I decided to follow along. I don't wear jewellery anymore because I just don't care enough to do so. I've gotten rid of some of the jewellery that I used to wear, but I've kept some of the pieces that had some meaning… Continue reading Jewellery Box Stories
My guinea pigs are all kinds of cute, and they pack a lot of personality into those little pea brains! Casper I adopted Casper from a shelter, where she ended up after being found in a parking lot. She was quite the scaredy pig initially; the first time I had a cuddle with her on… Continue reading Get to Know My Guinea Pigs Better
This is the final post in a mini-series that's looked back at my past. This post is a bit different because I don't have any photos to capture my mental health nursing career. I became a nurse in 2004. It was my second health professional career; the first was as a pharmacist. This is a… Continue reading This Was Me: My Mental Health Nursing Career
In this edition of This Was Me, we'll look back at times in my 30s when I was unwell, although you wouldn't know it just from looking at the picture. This photo was taken in December 2011, only a week or two after being discharged from a 2-month hospital stay. I was better in a… Continue reading This Was Me: The Things That Photos Hide
We've all got our own blogging routine, and I thought I'd write a bit about my own. I say I'm a "full-time" blogger only because of the amount of time I spend on it. A full-time income is never going to happen, nor is it something I' aiming for. I spend a lot of time… Continue reading My Blogging Routine as a “Full-Time” Blogger
I did my first big international trip (aside from a high school exchange trip to Japan) when I was 22, and that was when the travel bug firmly took root. From then on, each year I would take all my vacation time together in one block and do an international trip, other than the years… Continue reading This Was Me: My Travelling 20s
Peopled seemed to like the This Was Me post that covered my younger years, and this post will look back at my high school years. I wasn't a huge fan of that time in my life. Nothing bad happened; I just felt like I had very different interests from the vast majority of my peers, and… Continue reading This Was Me: The High School Years
Image by congerdesign from Pixabay For a little something different, I thought I'd take a bit of a stroll down memory lane to the earlier years of my life. Here's me as a baby. My parents had built this house (okay they weren't physically doing the building) two years before I came along as firstborn. They stayed in… Continue reading This Was Me: The Childhood Years
Pixabay The fabulous Candace from Revenge of Eve challenged me to come up with 11 weird things about myself. Feel free to play along and add a pingback to her post. I'm going to do a throwback to weird things from before I ever got depressed, back when I was a reasonably normal human being. … Continue reading About Me: The Weird Stuff