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DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 12th May 2023

How to Easily Create a Professional Blog or Website for Less Than £63

I've created a video to hand-hold you through that bit so that you end up with a snazzy website built on WordPress, just like mine - this very one, in fact.

Writing ➤ 4th May 2023

Speech-to-Text: A Quick Way To Create New Blog Posts

This is a reader-supported website. When you purchase products and services through links here, we may receive an affiliate commission at no additional cost to you. Want to know something that might bend your brain a...

Writing ➤ 13th April 2023

Never Run Out of Ideas: 5 Simple Strategies for Consistent Blog Content

Keeping a blog's editorial calendar padded out with content that's relevant, fresh, interesting, helpful, and engaging is a continual work in progress. Here are 5 really simple tried and tested ways to come up with enough ideas to fill an editorial calendar with content we can be proud of.

Writing ➤ 9th April 2023

How To Self-Edit Your Work As A Writer

As a writer, self-editing is an essential part of the creative process, albeit a daunting one. Spotting errors and inconsistencies in our own work can be a right ol’ challenge.

Self-Care For When We’re Empty And Have Nothing Left To Give

This post is an extract from my book ‘The Self-Care Project’, available to purchase from Amazon, Waterstones, WHSmith, and other local bookshops. Sometimes we find ourselves on our knees; our motivation has deserted us, our...

Everything Else ➤ 6th June 2023

How to Make Sure You’re Getting the 7 Types of Rest You Need

Rest doesn’t just occur when we’re asleep. In fact, if we spend our days zipping and zooming from one task to another, multi-tasking and switching between tasks willy-nilly, then when we lay down at night, our brain will probably start swimming through all that happened, might happen, or will happen. Sleep might feel elusive. This is because we haven’t had enough rest during the day or not enough of the right type of rest.

Everything Else ➤ 5th January 2024

How We Handle Eczema Flare-Ups In Our House

Writing about Eczema might seem like a complete u-turn in the content I ordinarily write but my blogging roots are in a) health and beauty (hello, Beach Bum Beauty Blog circa 2009), and, b) writing about what I've gone through (hello, The Blurt Foundation 2011 - 2022) first-hand or through parenting. So, Eczema, then. Eczema is a skin condition which can cause inflammation in the skin, making it sore, itchy, and dry.

Everything Else ➤ 17th May 2023

The Difference Between Stress And Anxiety

Many of the emotional and physical symptoms of stress and anxiety are the same and quite often they’re used interchangeably because, they’re so similar and hard to tell apart that they’re like identical twins.

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 12th October 2023

A Christmas Gift Guide for Pre-Teen Girls

I do not like choosing gifts for people. In fact, it's a huge source of stress for me. Will they like it? Do they already have it? What if they pretend to like it? What if they're disappointed? Thankfully, we have a long-held family tradition of sharing gift lists and I'm really grateful we do. With that in mind, and because this pre-teen age is one I find tricky to buy for, I roped Peggy into helping me craft this gift guide for pre-teen girls in the hope it'll help you in the same way our lists help me.

Everything Else ➤ 28th May 2024

How To Access All The Old blurtitout.org depression-related articles

From time to time, I'm asked if it's possible to access all of the old articles we wrote on www.blurtitout.org. Thankfully, there is a way. It's a little clunky so I'll walk you through it.

Everything Else ➤ 13th March 2024

A Letter To You If You Don’t Have ‘A Village’

Dear You, They say "It takes a village" and you hate that saying because it's a stark and painful reminder that you don't have one. It hurts, it rankles and it smarts doesn't it?! I know that you often feel alone, depleted, invisible and torn. As though there's nowhere or no one in which to turn for help. You might at times feel jealous of those who do have support. Anger, too, at your circumstances. Regret for the choices you may have made. Despair at the choices which felt as though they were taken from you. Exhaustion at the monotony of it all, wishing and wanting and needing a break.

Everything Else ➤ 22nd February 2024

I watched ‘Can I Tell You A Secret?’ and Then Deleted Instagram For Good

When it comes to adopting social media, I was one of the relatively late ones to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I'd seen the rise of MySpace and it just hadn't interested me. It was a friend I'd not seen for a while who encouraged me to get going with Facebook. He thought I'd love catching up with people there. And, I did enjoy it. Oftentimes, a bit too much. When I go in, I tend to go all in. Before I knew it, I had hundreds of friends, thousands on Twitter and Instagram.

Everything Else ➤ 26th June 2023

Mind + Body: The Physical Toll of Chronic Stress

We’ve all heard the term ‘bottled up’ used to describe when someone might suppress, mask, or refrain from showing their feelings. It turns out that we can literally bottle up our emotions by storing them within our bodies.

Writing ➤ 10th January 2025

I’m A Writer And These Are My (Current) Thoughts On AI

AI, for writers, is a minefield. There’s the plagiarism, the ickiness that someone can so easily mimic our writing style, cadence and tone, the misuse of intellectual property rights, the risk of our jobs being...

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