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ROOM:

Watched the film Room, my take aways revolve around depression and parenting

TW - The film is incredible, but also a little (very) heartbreaking.

The synopsis is available to search online.

Things it brought up for me:

💬 try everything you want. You may be missing things you enjoy, don’t restrict yourself.

💬 parental love and protection is a powerful thing.

💬 As parents we don’t always know what is best, but it’s where we aim for usually.

💬 mental health is so important, even if that means taking time away from our environment.

💬 psychological safety is a massive thing and is something I ensure for myself - it’s taken a while to get comfortable with this.

💬 when you are mentally unwell, emotions like anger can be a mixture of release but also massive sadness.

💬 feeling trapped in your own head and environment can be incredibly debilitating.

💬 children see everything, they may not understand, they may not let you know, but they see everything.

💬 the trauma of the parents will always impact the child no matter how hard you try to separate and put up barriers.

I started writing this last night after watching it and then fell asleep, this morning I really looked at it differently and more in depth.

We all have trauma, we all have experiences, we all have coping strategies, and we all have both physical and mental health.

In light of it being mental health week shortly, every day we work on our mental health is a massive win.

Don’t forget to give yourself so time and space for yours right now.

Love C

p.s

This picture of me, I took when I was impacted by my depression. I started taking photos when I was in deep to see if I ‘looked’ any different to myself and therefore others.

Even self care couldn’t help me at that moment. But that picture reminds me of how I felt in that moment. I look back at it and also remind myself how far I have come on my own journey.

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Write a blog they say…

‘They’ say that to increase your search optimisation results that a blog is useful. Now it shouldn’t be the only reason to start a blog but well, I’m a business after all?

So the question is do I have anything interesting to say? What would visitors to my website want me to blether on about?

  • Is it the random nature of serendipity of who I meet on my galivants?

  • Is it my own journey through my childhood to now and what I want in the future?

  • Is it common themes I see occurring with clients?

  • Is it the mundane life admin that I have as I work my way through the survival of being an adult?

  • Is it about helping people find a purpose?

  • Is it about helping people realise their purpose?

  • Is it about the personal pick me up notes I leave people?

Well, to be honest, it could be one of any and or all of those things and more…

but we all make starts.

This is mine.

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