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Oct102019

A Memoir For World Mental Health Day #worldmentalhealthday2019 #worldmentalhealthday #WorldSuicidePreventionDay

Today is World Mental Health Day and anyone that knows me, knows how much the subject means to me and why suicide prevention is a topic close to my heart. To try and remove the stigma and encourage everyone to talk, I’m sharing a very personal memoir here on my blog this morning. It’s called The Sun Will Shine Once More, and I would be so grateful if you could share it across social media and with anyone you think might benefit from reading it.

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Jan282019

On January

January can be the best and the worst month of the year for many. It starts off full of great intentions and motivation, but come the middle of the month, many feel their good intentions slipping away. I am one of these people.

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Jul072016

Public Speaking For Writers

public speaking for writers

Public speaking for writers can often come with fear and dread. Well in my case anyway. I love writing but public speaking terrifies me. Even reading my work aloud is a chore. When I started with my writing group back in March I couldn’t even read out loud to the other women in the group and I would often ask one of the other ladies to read what I had written.

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Jun222016

What To Do When You Don’t Want To Do Anything

What to do when you don't want to do anything

I thought about not doing a blog post today. I thought very seriously about it and I was ready to give up on this 30 day blog challenge. I am having one of those days, well one of those weeks really, where I just don’t want to do anything. I feeling deflated, frustrated with life, and just fed up. I don’t know why but I just am, and you know what, that’s okay because it happens to everyone.

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Jun132016

Facebook Addiction – A New Disorder

Facebook Addiction

Today I want to talk about social media and how distracting it can be. More to the point, I’m want to talk about Facebook. So here goes. I’m Amanda and I’m a Facebook Addict. God, just typing that makes me realise just how much of my time is wasted on this social media platform. Take today for instance. I turned my laptop on just after 9am when the kids went to school. I was just doing my normal check, looking at notifications, posting to pages, and my writer group. Yep, that’s what I said to myself anyway. It’s a lie. Facebook is my number one procrastination tool. It’s always there and always at hand whenever I want to waste some time. In recent months, it seems to have escalated though and when I found myself still scrolling at 12.20pm, I knew it was time to make a change.

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Jun122016

Do What You Love and Enjoy It

do what you love and enjoy it

Following on from my last post about handling criticism today and want to talk about doing what you love and enjoying it. I love to write and I enjoy doing it too but that doesn’t mean I go for my dreams and goals all the time. I’m learning though and that is the main thing. Sometimes it’s all about focus and mindset and this has been a stumbling block for me. One negative criticism and I found myself ditching my writing and sitting down in front of the TV watching mind numbing crap. Why? I felt I wasn’t good enough. I shouldn’t be spending my time writing fiction or poetry because I’m no good at it. I’m sure many of you can relate. When that little voice inside gets a hold, your dreams can wilt very quickly.

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Jun102016

How To Deal With Criticism

how to deal with criticism

Today was the first day in two weeks that I put pen to paper and wrote something new. The reason, I was learning how to deal with criticism. I decided a couple of weeks ago to get a professional critique on two of my poems. These were poems that were rejected for publication so I thought they would perfect to send off. My reason behind the professional critique was that I really want to have a book of poetry published by an Irish publisher. I love poetry and for me it is one of the easiest things to write. I can pen a poem in a matter of minutes and I really love it.

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Jun092016

How To Change Your Life – The Easy Way

how to change your lifeIf you want to know how to change your life, the first thing you need to do is be true to yourself. Being true to ourselves is something that many find difficult to do. We let other people’s opinions and words sway our judgement and take us away from our own inner truth.  We look outside for answers. We look to change others or expect others to complete us.

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Jun082016

How to Stay Positive Around Negative People

how to stay positive around negative people
Today I want to share some information that is part of the book on Switchwords that I am currently working on. It is about the power of words and how to stay positive around negative people.

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Jun062016

Spiritual Musings: My Thoughts and Options

Do you Believe

Today on my blog I wanted to share some spiritual musing with everyone. If you have read my about me page you will know that I love the Law of Attraction and follow a lot of the spiritual teachings of people like Wayne Dyer, Esther Hicks, etc. I am a big fan of Hay House and the books they publish too.  While I was thinking about what to post on my blog today, I came across a document on my laptop called “Spiritual Musing”. After reading through it, I felt it would be appropriate for my blog today. I hope you enjoy it.

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