RELATING TO MY TWO FAVOURITE PAGES | IN COLLABORATION WITH STACEY MCNEILL, AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR OF FOX UNDER THE MOON | NATIONAL READING DAY 2026

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“That’s the thing about books; they let you travel without moving your feet.”

Jhumpa Lahiri

In November last year, I visited the Christmas Market at the Spanish City with my fellow mental health blogging best-friend; Martin Baker of Gum On My Shoe, and we met the lovely Stacey McNeill and Jamie! I spotted the subtitle of the book: ‘Seasons of Comfort and Hope’ and asked, “does this mean there’s relevance to mental health?” she nodded and said “yes.” And I was like “just the right person to meet!” and within minutes we were exchanging the stories of our creative journeys, and I’d given her my business card! Kindly, she sent me a copy of the book with a card for myself and Martin and then we emailed about collaborating and, almost before I knew it, this blog post was underway! This post will focus on my two favourite pages from the book…

A COLLECTION OF POSTS ABOUT BOOKS | HAPPY READING DAY 2022

So, I had a great big plan to mark Reading Day with a blog post about my reading journey and all the books on my bookshelf. But, in the end, it wasn’t going to be finished in time and in a chat about it with fellow Blogger; Martin (of gumonmyshoe.com) I got the idea to publish this piece with links to all my previous blog posts around books…

FOR A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS:

I'm NOT Disordered: The BEST Books For Your Mental Health (imnotdisordered.co.uk)

TO HEAR FROM AN ACTUAL, MENTAL HEALTH RELATED, PUBLISHED AUTHOR:

I'm NOT Disordered: 'A YEAR SINCE PUBLISHING' WITH MARTIN BAKER (CO-AUTHOR) | GUEST POST | Ad (imnotdisordered.co.uk)

MY FIRST COLLABORATION FOR A BOOK RELEASE:

I'm NOT Disordered: BOOK REVIEW PART ONE: LINES FROM AN UNFINISHED LOVE SONG BY GAIL CURRY | Ad (imnotdisordered.co.uk)

I'm NOT Disordered: BOOK REVIEW PART TWO : LINES FROM AN UNFINISHED LOVE SONG BY GAIL CURRY | Ad (imnotdisordered.co.uk)

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2020 POST TWO | READING AS KINDNESS

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”

Louis L’Amour

Welcome to the second post in the Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) series of blog posts. Today, I want to talk about how reading can be an act of kindness towards yourself and in connection with that, I thought I’d share with you my favourite books which cover kindness…


I’ve always enjoyed reading – to the point where my teacher at First School wouldn’t give me reading books for a long time so that the other pupils could catch up to my level! When I was little, I really loved the Sheltie book series because I was absolutely obsessed with horses, so I saw reading as a way to indulge in my hobby and passion. Seeing reading as a brilliant and enjoyable way to learn about something I was interested in, really motivated me to continue to read when I was younger.