Testing Times This post is going to try and wrap up the whole perfection, self esteem, am I on the right road threads that have meandered through this blog. I have a tendency to test myself and I do it in all the elements of my life except one. Some of that testing is borne … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 29 →

Running gadgets and kit - so I have been in that obsessive runner phase where I had a gadget that told me everything I needed to know about running and more and I was in a thrall to it, if I was near the end of a run and I still had a 1/3 mile … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 23 →

I have a manager, he/she sits inside my head. When I wrote a couple a days ago about the facets of my personality that I presented to the world, or at least thought I presented to the world it is the manager who 'manages' that process. His/her purpose is to manage the cauldron of emotions that … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 22 →

A very long metaphor for depression - I was told this on a Mindfulness course and it makes a lot of sense and I could relate to it. Depression is like walking down a street and you fall in to a big black hole, it may have surprised you or you may have seen it … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 18 →

Today is Blue Monday, not the song but statistically the most depressing day of the year, post Christmas blues, impending credit card bills and another 2 weeks to pay day, assuming that you are working. Rethink Mental Illness are organising #BrightMonday to beat the blues. The idea is to wear something bright or just look … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 16 →

I'm revisiting anxiety today - I think that I have 2 types of anxiety - my head anxiety which I wrote about near the beginning of the blog. My other anxiety is my gut anxiety - this is less frequent and less disruptive to my daily life but still not a lot of fun. My … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 15 →

Today is all about running, a little break from the rigours of mental health and well being. Richard Askwith in his book Run Free, which builds on the idea of Boff Whalley's Run Wild identifies 7 stages of running. So I thought I would take you through my road through these stages. The stages are: … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 11 →

I said at the start that running was part of my strategy to support my mental well being. The other elements being medication, counselling and meditation/reflective practice. When I was first diagnosed with depression I remember going to a local cafe, looking at the box of tablets that I had been prescribed and thinking I'll … Continue reading Run Every Day – Day 5 →