In bed with me and teddy!

I am very lucky that sleep has never been something that I struggle to get, I sleep well most nights and pretty much always get my 8 hours - this isn't me bragging about all the fun exciting sleep that I get, It's just on those days when I don't get as much sleep as I wanted that I appreciate how important the 'Zzz's are.

It's like trying to funciton without food- I just can't do it! I need sleep as much as I need food to be able to do anything at all!

Sometimes we can be kept awake at night by horrible scenarios playing out in our head over and over and over that I sometimes wish I had a 'off' switch, like a robot, because although my poor eyes are sleepy my brain is on overdrive and full of electricity. This is worse at night than in the day because sometimes nights when everyone else is asleep is when you can feel worse because you feel more alone.

I remember one day when I was maybe eight or nine and I told my grandparents about how I couldn't get to sleep because I was so worried, and then I told them how amazed I was that everything, every little thing seems better in the morning, not healed, but better beyond belief!

I am thankful to my little eight or nine year old self to have learned this lesson very very young. Everything, absolutely everything seems worse on nights alone than in the day where you don't feel confined to your bedroom and forcing your little peepers closed to try and tempt sleep.

So if you're reading this at night and something is niggling or maybe eating away at your mind, know that although you cannot for the life of you see how anything could look better at this moment, this moment will pass, morning will come and things will seem brighter.

Here's a little something wonderful to get you feeling better already!

My new giant best friend, he is my 'Dreams' bear, and keeps me safe at night when I'm worried! I love how he has sleepy eyelashes!

I've named this ball of brown fuzz Toby!

Night Night

Sleep Tight

Don't let the bed bugs bite!

Maybe not today, but eventually

Everything is going to work out.

Your dreams and hopes will find their place in this world.

Smile freely.

Your smile lights up your face.

Your smile is one easy way to make someone’s day.

It will get better.

Give yourself and life time.

Your fears are only as powerful as you allow them to be.

Don’t allow them to paralyze you from living your life.

I know you get lonely but that doesn’t mean you are alone.

There are so many people who love and need you.

Loneliness comes and goes.

It won’t stay forever.

It’s okay not to be okay all the time.

Don’t be afraid of the work ahead of you.

That’s how you learn, how you grow, and most importantly how you get to where you want to be. 

Getting lost is how you get found

Everything is going to work out.

Sad, mad or a just plain bad day?

Sometimes something happens at school, at work or at home between your boyfriend, bestfriend, mum, teacher, colleague, anyone! It might have been something that they said or did that just made you burn up inside, and now, the moment may have allowed them to move on and think nothing of their actions but we're still here, full of fury and clinging to it. When we fall into a spiral of anger towards another, suddenly everything that person has ever said or done can be manipulated into ammunition for another reason to be so mad at them.
We wrap ourselves up in ribbons and guess what? Absolutely nothing changes.

So let's not waste our time on anger towards people, or words that have hurt us, or something that made the balance of the world seem so unfair because dwelling on it allows for nothing to change.

Brush it away, right out of your hair, watch your burning anger disintegrate and float up into the sky until it is flecks of stardust shining down on us and lighting our way along a happier path.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessell in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured- Mark Twain