THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY OF CREATING A SERIES OF CONTENT | IN COLLABORATION WITH GRACIE’S WAY | DYING MATTERS AWARENESS WEEK 2026

“I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff…” 

Fred Armisen

So, I used Chat GPT to check for additional ideas on what I should be including in an article titled ‘Series Re-Cap’ for the Gracie’s Way’s website (www.graciesway.co.uk) that I was intending to use to basically wrap-up the week-long Series of content on there – and on the project’s Instagram (@GraciesWayUK) – for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2026. For numerous reasons (which will all be explained in that re-cap post on May 10^th!) I decided that this Awareness occasion was the right one to be the first one for Gracie’s Way to publish a Series of content in response to it. And amongst the Chat GPT response to my prompt, it actually advised that I include some words on the emotional journey of creating a Series of content. I began writing hat section in the Re-Cap article when I had the thought ‘this could be an entire blog post!’ So, here it is…

DAY TWENTY-FOUR | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“Content creation isn’t about filling space; it’s about creating meaning.”

Nick Thackray

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Twenty-Four and this twenty-fourth post is the final secret in the series and is all about the beneficial impact there is if you – as a content creator – have confidence in promoting the content you’re creating. Being able and willing to aid the publicity of your content can do absolute wonders for both your following and your motivation and inspiration too! So, keep reading to find out why and how confidence in promotion, can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY TWENTY-THREE | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“Words do two major things: they provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”

Jim Rohn

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Twenty-Three and this twenty-third post is all about the beneficial impact there is if you – as a content creator – utilise awareness dates as the theme and/or inspiration for your content. Maximising these dates as topics and to provide ideas for your content, can be instrumental to attracting followers and maintaining the following you already have. So, keep reading to find out why and how using awareness dates, can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY TWENTY-TWO | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“Whatever you can do, or dram you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Twenty-Two and this twenty-second post is all about the beneficial impact there is if you – as a content creator – are bold with your choice of topic and/or theme of your content. You can take inspiration, motivation, and ideas from so many different sources, and these methods of creation can lead to some really unique themes and topics for a variety of content formats. So, keep reading to find out why and how recognising the importance of being bold, can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY EIGHTEEN | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go!”

Dr. Seuss

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Eighteen and this eighteenth post is all about the beneficial impact there is if you – as a content creator – have a knowledge, understanding, and awareness of some broader issues on your context and theme. I’ll be discussing some of my thoughts on the broader issues around my own content’s theme of mental health, how I’ve utilised that knowledge, and why I think doing so is so important. So, keep reading to find out why and how having a broader awareness can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY FIFTEEN | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”

Tony Robbins

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Fifteen and this fifteenth post is all about the beneficial impact there is if you – as a content creator – utilise consistency in creating your content. In this post, I’ll be discussing the benefits to doing this, the consequences to forgetting to use this skill and quality, and the impact it could have on your readers. Keep reading to find out why and how consistency can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY SEVEN | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“So much can be achieved when ideas are created, and people come together to bring them to life.”

Paddington Mbumbgwa

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Seven and this seventh post is all about the benefits and sense of achievement you can receive or experience from a successful collaboration in your content creation career. The post will look at the fact everyone can have a different definition or understanding of both ‘successes and ‘achievement’ and I’ll discuss how much this can matter in content collaborations. Keep reading to find out why and how collaborations can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY SIX | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it.” 

Alan Lakein

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Six and this sixth post is all about the benefits and productivity that can be achieved by planning ahead in content creation. This blog post will share the best methods for planning in this industry as well as discuss all the reasons why it’s such a wise move to engage in. Keep reading to find out why and how planning can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY FIVE | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” 

Jack Canfield

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Five and this fifth post is all about the benefits and productivity that can be achieved by being creative in your content creation and utilising new ideas in doing so. There’ll be some advice around finding new ideas and how to monitor other content creators and the success – or otherwise – that they have of publishing new ideas. Keep reading to find out why and how new ideas can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY THREE | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.” 

Rumi

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Three and this third post is all about the benefits and impact of balancing the types of content that you create and publish on your social media or blog/platform. In this post I’ll talk through the different types of content, I’ll present a few ideas and resources for each of them, and I’ll look at the benefits to balancing them. Keep reading to find out why balancing content format/type can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

DAY TWO | A SECRET BLOGMAS 2025

 

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” 

Napoleon Hill

Welcome to A Secret Blogmas 2025!

Today is Day Two and this second post is all about the productivity and benefits to using your own lived experience in your content creation and publication. In this post, I’ll talk about the different impacts your experiences can have on your followers and provide tips on managing this and for managing your own mental health in sharing potentially difficult experiences. Keep reading to find out why lived experience can impact the success and popularity of your content and/or your platform…

THE ULTIMATE GUIDANCE TO WORKING WITH AN INFLUENCER

“No one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel as passionate about your dreams as you do.”

Germany Kent

A little while ago, I wrote a blog post titled: The Most Transparent Blog Post I’ve Ever Written (which you can read here) and in it, I talked about being given – numerous times now – the label of ‘influencer’ by others. I decided to do some research at the beginning of the post, in the hope that it would provide me with evidence to fight me meeting the definition of the label, but instead, I found (in this article) that due to the following of I’m NOT Disordered (2.3 million readers) I’d be deemed a ‘Mega-Influencer!’ And on talking to my Waythrough Recovery Worker, I agreed that my blog is at a standing in terms of both popularity and reputation, that I can no longer demean or deny it. So, here I am(!) agreeing to be an Influencer! Now, this blog post was actually inspired by a recent meeting with a few of Waythrough’s Communications and Marketing team, where the idea of the organisation working with Influencers was discussed. The Manager said that I was the ‘perfect person’ to have involved because of my ability to bring actual, lived insight into this world, and so, here’s the blog post which provides guidance to working with an Influencer…

BLOGVEMBER 2024 | DAY ONE | INTRODUCTION

A SUPER SCARY PRE-HALLOWEEN REVEAL | INTRODUCING…

“Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” 

Marica Wieder

You know, sometimes I actually hate writing titles like that – clickbait I think you’d call it – but I also recognise that it draws in readers rather than putting the announcement topic where you can see it straight away. But then that reminds me of when I first started blogging and someone asked me why I regard the number of readers so highly and celebrate the milestones; it makes me worry that people will think I’m superficial or being ingenuine. Being asked that though, led me to think about it and to develop answers for being asked it again! But my two reasons for caring about the size of my audience are actually also relevant to my thoughts on this title. The first is that the more people who read my blog, the higher the chance that my content helps someone. Then, secondly, the higher the following the more opportunities and experiences you can access or be offered. I don’t want to milk it though… So, without further ado, I’d like to introduce you to:

FIVE TIPS FOR ORIGINAL CONTENT

I’ve basically just wrote over six hundred words about forgiveness and the act of apologizing to find that I’d already posted something along very similar lines only three months ago! And the way I finally made that discovery inspired me to come up with some tips for other Bloggers to avoid making the same mistake:

1.       Use ‘labels’ or ‘tags’

On Blogger (I’m unsure if it’s the same on other Blogging sites) it allows you the option to choose keywords around the subject of each of your blog posts. You can make this list as extensive or as limited as you like but it allows for your post to show in Google searches on the words you’ve included. The other bonus of this (which I’ve just discovered) is that you can search for all posts featuring a particular label which means that you can ensure that your content is actually original to anything you’ve ever posted.

HAPPY SIXTH BIRTHDAY I'M NOT DISORDERED

To celebrate the SIXTH year of this wild journey with I'm NOT Disordered, here's a post with links and pics from the past year! 

And here's to many more posts, partnerships, collaborations, and Q&As!

But before we get into the flashback… here's what has been posted for the past five Birthdays:

YEAR ONE: http://www.imnotdisordered.co.uk/2014/01/happy-first-birthday-im-not-disordered.html

YEAR TWO: http://www.imnotdisordered.co.uk/2015/01/happy-second-birthday-im-not-disordered.html

YEAR THREE: http://www.imnotdisordered.co.uk/2016/01/happy-third-birthday-im-not-disordered.html

YEAR FOUR: http://www.imnotdisordered.co.uk/2017/01/happy-fourth-birthday-im-not-disordered.html

YEAR FIVE: http://www.imnotdisordered.co.uk/2018/01/happy-fifth-birthday-im-not-disordered.html

January 2018 saw a partnership with OliverBonas on their book: 52 Lists For Happiness, and a competition win that saw me partying with one of my Blogging idols; Victoria McGrath (InTheFrow), Alex Harrison, and Google Pixel.

WEGO HEALTH AWARDS

Thank you to everyone who’s voted so far!

To nominate me/I’m NOT Disordered for the category ‘Best In Show: Blog’ please visit:

https://awards.wegohealth.com/nominees/12376

SIX PINTEREST PICS THAT SUM UP MY LIFE

Take a peek inside my Pinterest boards and my motivations behind some of my favourite pins with links to my favourite boards…

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/aimeswilson/

LONDON https://www.pinterest.co.uk/aimeswilson/london/

I remember my first visit to London when I was eighteen and my Mum took me down there for my Birthday. We had one of those theatre weekends booked where you get train fayre, a hotel room, and a night at a show of your choice in one packaged price. We chose The Lion King because it’s one of my favourite Disney movies and makes me cry every single time I watch it – no matter how old I get! Since then I’ve visited London on a number of occasions and for a number of different reasons; we visited again to see Legally Blonde on my 21^st Birthday, attended a party at Buckingham Palace to celebrate Blind Veterans 100^th Birthday, and I’ve attended numerous conferences, meetings, and events there. At one point, I was in London so often that I seriously considered moving down there. And then one of the terrorist attacks happened. And I was round the corner. It was when the man was found near Westminster with a bag full of knives. I remember leaving the event in the taxi and people were running, screaming towards us whilst Police riot vans raced in the opposite direction. After a little while, I couldn’t let it stop me from visiting the city that I’d grown to love so much.

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2018 WITH I'M NOT DISORDERED | POST SIX | COLLABORATION WITH NORTHUMBERLAND, TYNE & WEAR NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | A REVIEW ON THEIR SELF-HELP GUIDE FOR STRESS | AD

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week

I was meeting with the Head of Communications for Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (NTW) when she began telling me about the re-design of their self-help guides when she offered me a box with the entire collection in! It was such a kind gift and I agreed to write a review on the ‘Stress’ self-help guide for Mental Health Awareness Week.

This particular guide was written by Dr Lesley Maunder and Lorna Cameron, Consultant Clinical Psychologists for Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2018 WITH I'M NOT DISORDERED | INTRO/WHAT TO EXPECT

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week

Welcome to Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) 2018 with I’m NOT Disordered!

This year, the focus of MHAW is stress, so for every day this week (14^th – 20^th May) there’ll be a post on this topic!

I’ve been toying with the idea of whether to tell you all what to expect from I’m NOT Disordered during this time, and whether to keep it a total secret and let you see day by day… But I couldn’t face publishing a post so short!