Happy Birthday to my Blog!

My Blog is Four Years Old

Back in April 2019, I uploaded my first public blog post* over on my original site which was on Blogger. I say public because I did have a LiveJournal blog which was friends-locked. To be honest, I do still have it, I just haven't updated it in many many years as I forgot all about it as my life got busy with other things.

I then changed to a Wix site where I felt I had a bit more creativity for layouts before ending up here, on Squarespace.

I can’t believe that it’s been four years!!! Over 4 years since I was promoted to start a blog about my mental health journey and how I also share how my faith as a Christian has also helped me over the last few years.

A lot has changed in the last four years, with what I share here, in my life and also in the world. I never would have thought that within a year of starting my blog that a year later we would be in a worldwide pandemic and lockdown! It’s crazy, right? To think of life pre-pandemic and how we had NO idea what was coming in those following years.

I used to worry that I had to post every week here, but sometimes that wasn’t possible for me to do, so I started to give myself a lot more grace and post when I could. Suffering from anxiety means that I’m not always able to post on any of my platforms because when I’m in a dip, my main priority is my mental health, my well-being and getting out of that dip.

I have a handful of posts on the go at any one time, depending on what is going on in my life. But because I’m still in the thick of some things my thoughts aren’t finalised enough to be a published post.

And that’s okay.

It can be a lot easier for me to do a quick Instagram* post compared to a blog post as a lot more goes into these.

Writing still isn’t a strong point for me, I was told I was mildly dyslexic quite a few years ago and I have always struggled with writing compared to visual work. But I don’t let that stop me, I enjoy writing as we know I have many many journals with lots of stream of consciousness thoughts written in them. But it’s different writing it knows the writing a finished piece for here which is more like an essay as such.

Am I putting too much pressure on myself?

Quite possibly. It wouldn't be the first time, and I doubt it will be the last. I think I need to transfer some of the lessons on perfection that I've been learning in other areas of my life, into my blogging one.

So’ as with my YouTube channel and my Instagram, particularly the reels and stories, I JUST HAVE TO SHOW UP! I’ve written that in capitals as I NEED to remember it. All I am doing is sharing my stories, and journeys with my mental health, faith and other things going on in my life.

It DOESN’T need to be perfect, it just needs to be shared.

There’s this perception on social media and in society that everything HAS to be perfect.

But, here's the kicker.

IT DOESN'T!!!!!!!

Because life ISN’T perfect, so why are we pretending that it should be?!?!