September
2020
I spent the first month of my
stability, enjoying much-needed quality time with three of my god-children who
now live just outside of Edinburgh in Scotland:
THREE
LESSONS I’VE LEARNT FROM MY GOD-CHILDREN | MY TRIP TO SEE THEM IN EDINBURGH
My anxiety over maintaining my
safety through the anniversary of my cat’s death was placated by my writing of
a letter to her:
November 2020
I spent the anniversary of the
beginning of the abuse using it as motivation to write a piece aimed at providing
knowledge for those who need more insight, and for other survivors to know they
aren’t alone:
EVERYTHING
THE ABUSE ANNIVERSARY HAS MADE ME THINK ABOUT
December 2020
I spent the entirety of December totally
distracted and busy in working on and publishing daily posts for ‘Blogmas’:
BLOGMAS
2020 WITH I’M NOT DISORDERED | POST TWENTY-FIVE: A ROUND-UP OF THE SERIES
January 2021
My stability meant that I could
spend my blog’s eighth Birthday celebrating with a piece about everything I’d learnt over my
blogging career:
I’M
NOT DISORDERED TURNS EIGHT | A LESSON PER YEAR
February 2021
In the month of my Birthday, I
very proudly managed to be successful at an interview for the Kickstart Project
Coordinator role with St Oswald’s Hospice and began my first paid job since the
beginning of my mental health deterioration in 2009:
March 2021
Through the run up to releasing my
book, I began considering how I’ve been impacted by the abuse in a bid to
recognise and accept those things:
HOW
THE ABUSE HAS CHANGED MY LIFE
April 2021
In the month I released my book;
Everything Disordered, my beautiful, lop-eared Lionhead bunny Pixie, was put to
sleep and my mental health continued to show its strength as I grieved safely:
SOME
OF THE COMMENTS MADE IN LOSING MY BUNNY | IN LOVING MEMORY OF PIXIE
May 2021
Having finally decided to go ahead
with the tendon transfer surgery on the EPL tendon in my thumb, I put together
a blog post about being admitted to hospital:
DBT,
PRACTICAL ITEMS, & BRAVERY IN HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS | MY FINAL TENDON SURGERY
I was able to reap the benefits of
having a stable mental health when I went to see one of my oldest best friends
who had just given birth to the gorgeous Greylan:
THE
FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN & MENTAL HEALTH | MY THREE DAYS IN COLDSTREAM
July 2021
I finally began accepting the fact
that I’m very really going to reach one million readers soon:
“IT
FEELS SO SURREAL” | EVERYTHING I’M THINKING ABOUT ON THE WAY TO ONE MILLION
READERS!!!