Hayley's Blog
Updates from Hayley's blog posts.
Come undone
Someone recently asked me if my son's anxiety was a result of my depression, or if my depression was a result of his...
Emotions, behaviours and choices
Talking about Anxiety - the feelings, the emotions, how it makes us behave and the actions it controls - is a huge...
“I don’t have mental health”
After another discussion with someone relaying the words “I don’t have mental health” I wanted to share my view on...
Confident kids get anxiety too
When considering a child’s mental health and behaviours, we often dismiss anxiety in confident children - children who...
Anxiety from the outside
Understanding anxiety is difficult when you live with it but watching someone living with it is even more perplexing....
Where excitement becomes an unrecognisable emotion
Suicide and how adults and children get to feel it is the only option are on my mind constantly. My children are...
The pressure to be ‘happy’
The holiday season can be a stressful time for anyone and with all the forced cheer and merriment presented on social...
Learning to manage your anxiety
Anxiety makes our bodies and minds do, see and think things that may or may not be true. Your body takes on a life of...
End the stigma
I see the impact the stigma around mental health has on people every day. Time for mental health to be understood and...
Time to ditch the ‘glitch’
Harrison has anxiety. He is thirteen years old, has just returned from a school trip to Austria and is nearly eighteen...