Normal – Mental Wellbeing

Tag: mental-health

  • Older, Wiser & Happier

    I have often been told that I am old before my time. My teenage years of working behind counters and bars gifted me with the abaility to make small talk with just about anyone, ironically leaving me feeling more equipped to talk to someone in their 70s than to someone of my own age. When…

  • Just a thought

    Read a fantastic African proverb earlier: “A cat who wishes to become a lion must lose its appetite for rats” – meaning we must drop old habits to become a new version of ourselves, but it sounds much better this way. I’ve found this to be true when dealing with anxiety. We have so many…

  • Taking the Wheel

    It often goes unspoken that anxiety rattles the body physically. In January 2024, I found myself sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, paralysed by fear, with a number of physcial ailments that a young man simply shouldn’t have, some of which were indicative of prostate cancer. I explained to the doctor that I had already…