Category: The deep stuff

  • Step Out of Your Comfort Zone: Doing Things That Scare You

    Last weekend I did something that really scared me. It was going to a society at my university alone. Now that the weather is nice I wanted to go hiking but nobody else was free. This left me with two options 1) go by myself or 2) don’t go at all. Now, I go on…

  • Being Introverted: Exploring the Struggles and Lessons

    Throughout my whole life I have always been quite reserved and quiet. I obviously knew I was quite an introverted person and throughout a lot of my childhood I was told that I was ‘too quiet’ and that I ‘didn’t speak enough’. At the time I didn’t realise how much these comments were effecting me.…

  • Finding joy in the small things: 15 small things that make life feel big

    This week I thought I would write about small things that make me happy. I think life is all about making the most of everything, no matter how small. I’ve also found that a lot of the ‘small’ things in my life have the biggest impact on my overall happiness. Before I write this I…

  • Affordable and Fun Self-care Activities

    Exam season is coming up and for a lot of people that means a ton of stress. Whenever I feel particularly low or need a break I usually do some sort of self-care activity. I am always trying to find new ways to spend my ‘me-time’ that are affordable as well as fun. In this…

  • Overcoming the Struggle of Having Too Many Interests

    Introduction: Until early this year this was a problem I failed to acknowledge that I had. Throughout my whole life I remember being intrigued with everything and wanting to learn. I would take up a variety of hobbies and as a consequence all of my interests began piling up. I wanted to do so many…

  • Less is more: Living a Minimalist Lifestyle

    I have always been familiar with the term minimalism but I never truly knew what it was. Honestly I just thought it was an aesthetic people chose to make their homes look more modern. But after reading ‘Goodbye, Things’ by Fumio Sasaki I realised I couldn’t have been more wrong. When reading this book, I…

  • Success: Redefining what success mean to you

    “I want to define success by redefining it, for me it isn’t that solely mythical definition- glamour, allure, power of wealth and the privilege from care. My definition of success should be personal because its so transitory. Its about shaping your own destiny.” -Anita Roddick Introduction: When we are young people tell us that anything…