8 tips on how to stay productive - and keep you feeling fulfilled.
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I am filled with a longing and hope, that one day, maybe in my lifetime this will be available for me to try at home. That it will be a regulated system, that there will be no fear of criminalisation, of who has made this product, hell, maybe you’ll even be allowed to grow your own! One day, I hope that this will be the case, so I no longer watch the benefits from across the ocean and can openly experience them myself, in a legal, supportive environment.
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There are various creative ways of using home space to satisfy an urge to garden, also known to be greatly beneficial to our mental health. Using wall space to grow climbing plants, sewing seeds in trays on a windowsill, growing indoor plants and creating terrariums: mini ecosystems in a fish bowl, are all simple ways to green up an environment and activate our intrinsic instinct to nurture, without any outdoor space.
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At the time of writing this, the world is mid-global pandemic. And yet, more than ever before, I am being bombarded with online content promoting weight loss, fitness challenges and body transformations. Without sounding boorish, do we not have slightly more pressing issues to be worrying about amidst this crisis than who can emerge from lockdown with peachier glutes, a smaller waist or a new personal best on their press ups?
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This is a strange time where more people than ever are making banana bread and, the big one, getting out in the garden.
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I remember feeling sick to my stomach, going home straight after the lecture and crawling into bed while I bled through my underwear. It would be another four years before I got my endometriosis diagnosis.
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I asked a doctor friend for her thoughts. She said that smear tests, and all other tests for that matter, are so much part of their daily routine that they are focussing on the task, not looking at our bits. ‘One fanny is much like another fanny,’ she cheerfully reassured me, ‘we are so busy we don’t even think about it.’
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It would simply cease to exist if I hadn’t given up dieting and discovered Intuitive Eating, which is a philosophy that pivots on honouring your hunger and eating what you want to. I used to think my hunger was the enemy: a devious scheming bastard whose calling card was an empty Penguin wrapper and a stomach full of guilt.
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During this time I have been questioning – have I really recovered from my eating disorder? Particularly in the last few days, my mind has been subject to ever-pervading thoughts of food, bad body image and anxiety surrounding food, something I have managed successfully now for the last five years or so.
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I’d like you, reader, to bare in mind that I am giving my perspective here as a representative of those who have experienced disordered eating - feelings of guilt, shame and of greed all attributed to food, body image; to exercise.
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A few weeks ago, I turned 23 and was affronted by the mildly alarming thought that it had been exactly five years since my eighteenth birthday. At the age of eighteen, opportunity and possibility seemed limitless. My five-year plan contained as many bullet-points as an entire biography. Buy a house. Write a book. Have children. Get married. Start a business. Go in a hot air balloon. A whole lifetime squeezed into a regimentally scheduled half-decade.
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OK, so it’s almost here. That time of year when many of us start to look at what we want to change, improve or what we are determined we’re no longer going to put up with or tolerate in our lives. Our New Year’s Resolutions.
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For me, I’ve spent Christmas on a hospital ward as a teenager so I empathise with all the people who will be doing the same this year. The wonderful staff that come to work over Christmas do their best to make it manageable, but it’s indisputable that it isn’t the same as being at home with loved ones.
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We all know that Christmas can evoke so many emotions. Joy. Excitement. Love. Fun, laughter, sharing and caring. Time off work, food and frivolities and family and friends. But there can also be sadness, grief, loneliness and loss which often need a look-in.
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This work is about relaxation techniques; tried and tested by Creatives for Creatives. The beginning of this piece takes the perspective of performing artists, who have a direct working knowledge of the subject and use the information for all practical purposes.
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Having lived in Bristol for three years during university (I love you Bristol), moving home to my small market-town in Derbyshire, was a massive shock to the system. And now, with my travelling over, I’m back home and sometimes it can feel like I am just stuck. It can feel like my life is on hold despite being so ready to live it.
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Have you ever stood on a bridge, with a 40 feet drop, and thought ‘what if I jumped?’. Maybe not. What about this though - you’re driving at 60 down a motorway and suddenly think, ‘I could just swerve this car right now’. No? Maybe it’s less severe than that. Maybe you’ve just been in a silent room and thought, hey, what if I suddenly shout ‘SHIT’ at the top of my voice.
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