If you wanted to get stronger you’d lift weights in the gym, right? You’d research the best methods, create a program and start lifting heavy things. The process is simple. Lift enough for your body to be extremely uncomfortable and it will adapt. …

Everyone’s doing it, it’s the cure for anything and everything. Housewives and hipsters are guzzling it like it’s the source of eternal life I see my friends in the locker room squirt droplets under their tongue after Jiu-Jitsu. A girlfriend orders gummies from the internet at £200($280) for a few weeks supply. “It helps me sleep” she says. I ate a whole packet and I just felt sick. Jokes aside I bought some pretty expensive oil from a few different providers and I took it at the right times.

You love them but damn it’s hard — It’s one of the hardest things about sobriety, isn’t it? Knowing you’re going to have to spend time around people who drink. It is for me anyway. We can’t avoid our friends and family forever. There are Christmases, birthdays and Sunday dinners. Often we are the only ones who aren’t…

A big part of being a hyper-empath is my intense bias towards dissociation. When we get involved in other people's lives, especially friends and family it’s an all-encompassing overwhelm that can tear us apart. We’re magnets for it and often the only way is to shut ourselves off tightly so that we’re numb to all feelings. I can’t be the only one that does this. Tonight I was caught off guard. Arriving home in a good mood, I switch on my phone to see messages from someone close to me.

You’d think so right? — I had some news today. Bad news. News that I’ve been putting off hearing my whole life but suspected it may be true. I have high levels of cholesterol in my blood. Very high levels that will mean a certain death by heart attack or stroke, if i’m not careful. …

A short form article that I want you to remember. Two important rules that you should tattoo onto each arm. Or etch onto your heart. Get over yourself — You’re not as important as you think and your problems are not as big as you imagine them to be. We…

The battle has only just begun — Have you recently decided to walk away from your substance abuse of choice? Good for you, you are in the right place and you’ll look back and see this as one of the best decisions you ever made. Trust me and everyone else who tells you this. It may not…

Or a blog of their own. Preferably both and Twitter too. Writing is a habit that’s hard to form but once it’s there it’ll open your mind like nothing else. It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re a good writer or if you engage your audience with every post. What matters is you show up until it's harder to stop than continue. The three most important things regular publishing will give you are: The courage to be yourself and risk what’s on your mind in public.