Archive for the “mental health” category
Little Dreams
by Pippa on April 12, 2012
And what of the world traveller, the woman who’s now lived in 5 different countries?
I am so very glad to regularly lay myself down in this, our most beautiful bed. It’s comfortably soft and firm at the same time …
Facets
by Pippa on October 26, 2011
I feel frustrated that when I do write on battlecat these days it’s to share the darker side of life. My last posts were on anxiety and of past weeks, while luckily I’ve been less anxious I find myself more …
Shadow Boxing
by Pippa on July 28, 2011
Starting to be more public about the anxiety that plagues me and moving out of the known confines of the last year’s work have acted as catalysts on some strange emotional and mental reactions.
I’ve outed this dark monster, this …
Fighting Tigers: Being Anxious
by Pippa on July 15, 2011
For a while now I’ve been wanting to write more openly about my struggles with anxiety disorder and its effects: depression, procrastination / perfectionism, feeling like an imposter, the mess it’s helping me make of my professional life and the …
Bring Me Back
by Pippa on June 12, 2011
I was most recently in Adelaide at the beginning of this year with T as we traveled across the country meeting and greeting family and loved ones. T is possibly a better child to his parents than I am and …
far / fahren
by Pippa on May 16, 2011
[Don't get confused - it's not a direct translation, but the alliteration fits.]
I’ve lived overseas (on and off) for about 5 years now and it has always been with the knowledge that distance makes it much harder to maintain …
100 Things I Want To Learn (More) About… Updated!
by Pippa on October 3, 2010
About a year and a half ago I posted a list of 100 Things I Want To Learn (More) About…. I wrote the list when I was in a more active phase of my DIY Masters, a very slowly …
The Grocery Geography.
by Pippa on February 28, 2010
Over the last year, one of the things I’m most proud of is having stayed put. I didn’t move to a new country*, I barely took any planes and apart from regularly visiting the bearded maths captain [BMC] in Linz, …
In case of emergency…
by Pippa on November 26, 2009
There’ll always be times when keeping up with your mindapples (the mental health 5-a-Day) just aren’t enough – and you find yourself overwhelmed with anxiety or the sads. For example, I know that the heavy grey skies of Berlin can …
on self esteem and bugs.
by Pippa on November 14, 2009
Over the last while, and most especially the last couple of days I’ve been struggling against thoughts of poor self-esteem and self-criticism all tied up with a sense of perfectionism which would never allow me to complete anything even if …
