Is there anything more enjoyable than opening a new book for the first time? Flicking through the pages as you scan it over in preparation for delving in fully. I love books enough to promote them as a creative coping strategy. They offer an alternative dimension that helps you temporarily forget this real one, theyContinue reading “Book Love – is an audiobook cheating?”
Category Archives: Creative coping strategies
Haiku Hope Part 12 – The Agoraphobic Conumdrum
Welcome to another Haiku Hope. This time, for a mix of fun and genuine frustration, I thought I’d put together a Haiku about my experiences when trying to access support for my acute agoraphobia. I realise this is a phobia that people experience in different ways and at different levels. Whether you are afraid ofContinue reading “Haiku Hope Part 12 – The Agoraphobic Conumdrum”
Haiku Hope Part 11 – Halloween
Welcome to another Haiku Hope! Today I’ve written a 5, 7, 5 about the subject on everyones lips that’s a great and expensive distraction that (frankly) doesn’t really matter. But we need it, don’t we? Halloween of course! This is the first year in my 41 years on the planet where we are celebrating, it’sContinue reading “Haiku Hope Part 11 – Halloween”
Crap poems part 15 – Heavy blanket, heavy sleep
Welcome to another crap poem! I’ve been searching for ways to keep our family warm through the cost of living crisis. Like so many other bill payers, if my utilities rise any further I don’t know how we’ll manage. Simple things like blankets and hoodies are at the ready, including my daughters super soft fleeceContinue reading “Crap poems part 15 – Heavy blanket, heavy sleep”
Haiku Hope part 10 – Oz
Welcome to another Haiku Hope! This time I’m writing about my blue heeler pup pal, the only cartoon I can watch without scratching my eyeballs – Bluey. This was just a bit of fun following a conversation I had with our daughter, and I thought it would make a good post for here. ********** OzContinue reading “Haiku Hope part 10 – Oz”
Crap Poems part 14 – Covid-19
Welcome to another crap poem! It’s been a weird week and my chronic pain and mental strain have both been suffering since I contracted covid via our daughter. Annoying. It’s difficult to describe the aching that the coughing causes, the stomach cramps, the arm aches and the anger that you feel because the coughing makesContinue reading “Crap Poems part 14 – Covid-19”
Weird Words part 6 – Desiderium
Welcome to another Weird Word post as part of my Creative Coping Strategies campaign. This time I’ve researched a word that is apparantly still used commonly, but I’ve never heard it before! This is a word that is deliberately used at a time when our nation (and much of the world) has been in aContinue reading “Weird Words part 6 – Desiderium”
Crap Poems Part 13 – Rain
Welcome to another Crap Poem as part of my Creative Coping Strategies campaign. It’s been a quiet couple of weeks following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ii, but I decided that, not only could I draw something to dedicate to her passing, I could also write a poem. So, although I tried, IContinue reading “Crap Poems Part 13 – Rain”
Haiku Hope part 9 – Rude
Welcome to another Haiku Hope! I had yet another negative interaction this week. This time it was a representative of one of the largest companies on planet earth – Amazon – who made me feel pretty awful. A delivery I’d paid for didn’t arrive despite receiving notifications that I’d signed for it. This was aContinue reading “Haiku Hope part 9 – Rude”
Crap Poems Part 12 – Make up
Welcome to another crap poem. I can’t quite believe I’ve written twelve of these things! Yesterday I spent some time in the mirror for the first time in over a week, and it was difficult, which has made me cross. I love wearing make up. As most of my real pictures show, I use eyelinerContinue reading “Crap Poems Part 12 – Make up”
Creative Steph 