I'm NOT Disordered: ideas

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

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…

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BLOGVEMBER 2024 | DAY THREE | FINDING IDEAS & INSPIRATION

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“HOW DO YOU NEVER RUN OUT OF IDEAS?” | 19 INSPIRATIONS FOR ‘BLOGGER’S BLOCK’

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”

Roy T. Bennett

The number of occasions I’ve been asked this question – or had similar questions or comments made to me – has meant it’s no longer one that I find myself having to so much as pause in order to come up with some sort of answer! It’s similar to how I often toy between boredom and enjoyment when I find myself blogging about something I’ve talked about before. I think that being bored is for the obvious reason of writing about something where I feel I’m repeating myself and the pleasant thoughts and feelings come with the easiness and the fact it means I can put the content together more quickly than usual! So, when asked how I don’t run out of ideas for blog content, I’m partly tired with the notion that I’m repeating myself, but then I also feel good about it because I know that my answer is helping someone in some way. However, recently, I’ve found myself enjoying confronting ‘old’ subjects and instances on I’m NOT Disordered and in real life because it’s starting to become a good opportunity to re-consider my thoughts and feelings around these things and to discover what – if any – progress or development I’ve made since the last time I’ve thought/blogged/talked about it. And so, here are some of my latest thoughts in response to those who ask or who only wonder how I don’t run out of ideas for content after ten years of blogging – I hope that they can help other bloggers who might be suffering from ‘blogger’s block’ (a modern day turn of phrase on ‘writer’s block’) and feeling stuck for topics, influences, and inspiration…

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BLOGMAS 2022 | DAY SIX: CREATING A FESTIVE/WINTER WARDROBE FROM ASOS | IN COLLABORATION WITH ASOS

Welcome to Day Six of Blogmas 2022!

Today I’m collaborating with the online retailer; ASOS to bring you my favourite bits from their site for every festive and winter activity you can imagine. Unfortunately, this post won’t be relevant for everyone (so I’ve tried to keep it short!) but I really enjoyed putting it together…

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WHY HAVING NO IDEAS IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST THINGS ABOUT BEING A BLOGGER | HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2022

Whilst I’ve decided to mark Halloween this year, with a piece about one of the elements of being a Blogger that can range on a scale of scary to intimidating to terrifying and back again(!); I still really don’t want this to put people off from joining the industry. And this is something I really want to get across, because I have benefited from blogging in so many ways that it’s left me hopeful that in encouraging others to try blogging, I might enhance the chance of more people being rewarded with those same – or similar – benefits. I just hope that you can be reassured with me telling you that as scary as things have gotten, they have all been totally worth it to mean I have experienced all that I have as a result of I’m NOT Disordered. To help with this, I’ve tried to also include how I cope with and manage when I’m scared…

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ALL THINGS HALLOWEEN | PUMPKIN DESIGNS, DÉCOR INSPIRATION, & SPECIAL SNACKS & DRINKS RECIPES!

So, there’s already a blog post scheduled for Halloween Sunday, but I was scrolling through Pinterest for another project when it hit me that I hadn’t really done a blog post that was directly about Halloween… So, I thought I’d jam everything into this one!

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I’M NOT DISORDERED'S CHRISTMAS PLANNER 2020 | IN COLLABORATION WITH CANVA | FREE TO PRINT

I did a Digital Marketing internship a year or so ago and during it, I learnt how to use Canva (www.canva.com). Recently, I’ve been using it for gift guides and other features in my blog posts. I really love and enjoy it because I feel like I’m a creative person and the website allows me to use that creativity in a very imaginative and different way that helps my blog to be more original at a time when it feels that everyone is a Blogger!

So, I wanted to do something Christmassy with Canva before Blogmas begins and after spotting a ‘Christmas Planner’ I was inspired to create one; and all you have to do is print it out!

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WHY I’M ALL ABOUT SELF-LOVING THIS VALENTINES DAY | FOUR TIPS TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL BETTER

I couldn’t decide what to write this post about; family relationships, friendships, or the absence of romantic relationships on a day when ‘romance is in the air.’ And then I came to the conclusion that an important factor in any kind of relationship is the one you have with yourself. When you don’t feel good in yourself then you’ll struggle to both maintain healthy relationships and create new ones.

1. PUT ALL THE FEEL-GOODS ON

That includes feel-good music (mine is Keala Settle – This is Me from The Greatest Showman because it’s so empowering), a movie (Alice in Wonderland for its far-fetched storyline), and book (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald because I feel so accomplished finishing it in one day!). Filling your life with happy music, movies and books can provide for both a much-needed boost to your mood, or a welcome relief from reality.

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BEEN IN EMERGENCY CARE DURING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS? NORTHUMBRIA HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST WANT YOUR FEEDBACK!! | AD

I’m honoured to have been asked to tell you all about this fantastic opportunity (which I have been a part of):

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.

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HOW TO LAND A COLLABORATION | FOUR TOP TIPS

After attending the Richmond Fellowship Working Together Committee meeting on January 24^th, it got me thinking a lot about all of the collaborations I’ve had with organizations. And now that I’m NOT Disordered has almost half a million readers, I feel like maybe now is the right time to share some advice for new Bloggers and current Bloggers who aren’t as established as they’d like to be. I won’t pretend to be an expert though; there are so many Bloggers out there who are doing some incredible work with huge organizations, but I think that in the Blogging industry, there’s a lot around competition and tearing one another down in order to climb the ladder and I don’t want to be one of those Bloggers. Instead, I want to promote the positive impact Blogging can have on your mental health and encourage others to ‘give it a go.’ I’d love to see more mental health Blogs out there so that we can spread the word about the topic in an aim to diminish the stigma around it. Collaborating with Organizations also provides this opportunity and it has played a huge part in the success/popularity of I’m NOT Disordered.

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PIXIE'S CHRISTMAS WISHLIST | IDEAL PRESENTS FOR YOUR BUNNY!

Just because my last few posts have been centered around my kitten; Emmy, don’t think I’ve forgotten my bunny! Pixie’s stocking is very full this year and even though I have a kitten to entertain, I still spend a lot of time with her! I think we’ve bonded even more since losing Dolly because in the week between Dolly passing away and getting Emmy, it was just the two of us and some people might say she wouldn’t – but I truly believe that she knows Dolly has gone.

So after the popularity of Emmy’s Christmas Wishlist, Pixie had to stick her whiskers in(!) and took over the keyboard for a few hours…