The Escape Notes

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Embrace the authenticity

Embrace the authenticity It’s takes courage to be nothing but true to yourself and as sad as that is, it’s the truth. I have always been one to follow and sink into others opinions and actions just because it was easy and it became comfortable and gave me a sense of acceptance. I built up a very bad habit of leading myself astray from who I was as a person and living such an opposite life in order to gain validation from others. I would strive for self-worth in areas I was bound to never find it. I had become so lost in other people that I became unrecognisable to the people who knew me the most and I saw no way of escaping the hole I had created for myself. What scared me the most whilst being stuck in the midst of it all was that when you do make a bold move to generate and voice your own opinion, you open yourself up to a whole load of vulnerability. I just hated the idea of being shot down or feeling embarrassed if I disagreed with anyone and then to be told I was ‘bo

Can I be you?

Can I be you? Just to start I would like to say how I am beyond guilty of this topic and have been since I remember and to my knowledge a lot of us are too. I have spent a countless amount of time scrolling on a screen, browsing through different social media accounts in which each one would add to the pot of self-hatred. It really does upset me that so many of us have learnt the type of behaviour that is ‘comparison’ which is ridiculously unhealthy for our self-esteem and confidence. I remember once being on a night out and actually muttering under my breath ‘fuck sake’ as I felt like the ugly duckling that sunk away into the background amongst all of my stunning friends. The whole night was filled with anxiety and ending up resulting in me drowning my sorrows. We spend our precious time on this earth beating ourselves up day in and day out due to the fact that we don’t look a certain way that is deemed as “good enough”. I don’t think it’s very fair to put a constant

Ditch the quick fix

Ditch the quick fix. We live in a day and age where everything is scarily accessible, we want everything to be fixed there and then. Whether it being the morning coffee fix that you have now become reliant on to wake you up or now having the choice to take slimming pills instead of natural weight loss is mind boggling and bizarre. I wanted to use the example of paracetamol to start things off. This particular pain relief enables you to postpone a pain in the stomach or maybe a headache for a short while but by making the choice of going straight in for the paracetamol in the meds cupboard you are failing to see what it is that occurred these aches and pains in the first place. We need to be questioning what the root cause may be instead of masking the problem. You may need to cut a particular food out of your diet to get rid of the stomach ache or you may need to lessen your screen time to avoid that irritating headache that keeps unwelcomely coming back. I th

Covid-19

Over the past few weeks I do believe everyone has had their fair share of overwhelming uncertainty and discomfort of the unknown. Many anxieties are through the roof and stomachs have turned. Entering your local shop and seeing nothing but distress and constant panic upon people’s faces. The view of our lovely grandparents through a glass window and wanting to wrap them up in cotton wool for safety. Daily phone-calls and facetimes to our loved ones. The frustration of not being able to perform the smallest of gestures like a hug or handshake. At the moment, it feels as though were all sort of plodding on, the days can feel a week long or they fly by within seconds. Most of them don’t even feel real. Very grey. But we can’t expect them to feel like our every day because this isn’t our normal every day. It’s a very strange time for all and we cannot change what is going on right now it’s completely out of our control; the only parts we can control are our part we play which is to

Eating Disorder Week

Nowadays there are so many things telling us what to eat and what not to eat. There are so many crazy crash diets that are out there such as the 'keto diet' or 'intermittent fasting' etc. Since school I've tried a million and one of these diets and it always ends up providing short term satisfaction and end up starving my body of the important nutrients. With losing weight most people turn to the idea of cutting out those important foods and vitamins that is needed for the human body to function on a day to day basis. It can become extremely obsessive and can make people very poorly and unwell. My own personal experience with this has been very unpleasant and developed a very unhealthy relationship with both food and my body. When you begin to obsess over the way your body looks 24/7 and the food you're putting inside of it, you begin to lose sight of all reality of your own physical and mental wellbeing. For me, I had my own phycological rulebook in my head abo