Bright Life! Bright Life!
Hello my little lightbulbs! A year has passed and so, like Michael Bublé at Christmas, I have risen to grace you all with my presence. My goal was to write to you all sooner than fourteen months… thirteen is still a win, right? Istanbul, April 2025 I hope that you’ve been keeping well! How have [...]
Hello, my little lightbulbs! How are you? Are you feeling yourself this week or a little out of sorts? I’m a tad out of sorts myself - but nothing too crazy. I FINALLY have a courtesy car which is some good news! It’s a little Hyundai Aygo and (don’t tell Umeboshi) I really like it! [...]
Exercise is an essential part of my week. It’s proven to have an absolute bouquet of benefits for the body, mind, and emotional wellbeing. One of the best things about exercise is that it’s very flexible; you can choose whatever exercise fits your lifestyle and ability; from running (sadly no more for me and my [...]
I’ve been veggie since I was 15 years old, which has given me a lot of time to get used to plant-based living. It’s also a lot of time to make a gazillion mistakes. During my time as a veggie I've watched the lifestyle, along with veganism, become more and more popular. Nowadays, even fully-fledged [...]
Grief is a very flexible pain; it forward folds and back flips around our life, stepping or hopping away only to roll back into us again. We’ve talked a little about the stages of grief, but today’s focus isn’t on how grief affects us, but how we can affect grief. Extending from our opening bendy [...]
When we're having a rough time, the first thing we're told to do is to speak about it; talk it through with someone; a problem shared is a problem halved. This is good advice. We do need to talk out our feelings. But, saying it and doing it are different things and it can be [...]
In our current, never-ending, mission to increase productivity and be successful whilst also being emotionally self-aware, it’s easy to forget a very important factor that all of these goals rely on- being physically healthy. We talk a fair bit on this blog about how mental health isn’t recognised as much, or in as much detail, [...]
Going out for a run is one of the few liberties that some fortunate people in the UK have available right now. This liberty can be hard to see as a liberty, however, when it’s absolutely freezing, pitch-black dark and raining. Another perk of the UK, on top of our lovely lockdown situation, is that [...]
Low self-esteem is a pain, like, dementor sucking at your face kind of pain. The first thing we do when we’re in pain nowadays is Google the remedies. As a fellow low-self-esteem-dabbler and confidence-boost-article-searcher I’ve done my bit of ground research. Searching how to help low self-esteem can bring up some amazing resources and I’ve [...]
I started running in 2018 when I came to Japan. I hardly knew anyone, the closest gym was a 40-minute drive away and I thought running would be the best way to explore the abundance of nature that was around me. Before then, I didn't run. Ever. Even in the gym, I’d choose to walk [...]
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