Stephanie Hardy – Writing from the Heart
Looking for hope, progress and ikigai in an increasingly volatile world
Category: Mental Health
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The Power of Writing
We’re in an era of telling our stories at the moment. From “Me too”, to “Black Lives Matters”, to “This is Me” and “It gets better”, we’re all using personal accounts to motivate change for the better. And it works because of how emotive those stories are: we can make the reader or listener feel… Read.
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Tyranny of the Should
2nd October was my dad’s birthday. He’d have been 68 had he lived but he died in 2005. He’d had early onset Alzheimer’s and died from complications. It was in learning about Alzheimer’s, both before and after he died, that I was introduced to the concept of the “Tyranny of the Should”. A quick google… Read.
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World Suicide Prevention Day
I want to disclaim at the start of this post that I am not a mental health practitioner or expert. These views are my own and based in part on my experience with anxiety and depression. Last Thursday, 10th September, it was ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’. I don’t think I knew this was a thing… Read.
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Ikigai
Ikigai is the Japanese concept concerned with ‘the happiness of always being busy’. It’s also been likened to ‘a reason for being’. I’m one of the those people who feel that they need a purpose in life. I sit in that camp where people are often accused of ‘living to work’ instead of ‘working to… Read.
Writing from the Heart 