Lucy's Looking-glass

Photo by  Natalie  from  Pexels I have always been someone to love talking about the importance of focusing on and improving your own mental health and well-being in order to help others. In today's blog post, I would like to share a few actions you can take in order to make improvements to your well-being overall. I am hoping to ensure this is beneficial for all! Enjoy! Take everything one day and one step at a time According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), stress is a global health epidemic. It is very common (and of course completely normal) for us to have an overwhelming amount of stress built up in our heads over certain aspects of everyday life. Someone once told me to just breathe and take everyday as it comes, rather than trying to reach perfection in a day. So, if you have 5 long essays due all in the month for example, focus on them one by one. Perhaps break down the word count instead of trying to write the essay from beginning to end. I had a...

Last night I had the honour of meeting one of my all-time favourite singers, Meghan Trainor. I was first introduced to her in 2014 when she released 'All About That Bass.' One of my friends at secondary school had showed me that video at the time it went viral. When she released her second single, I became a massive fan of her work and she became a role- model to me. I watched interviews where she would talk about how she pursued a career in music, and how she came to love herself after a lot of the typical 'teenage insecurity.' I was of course facing this at the time due to bullying at school. I still face a lot of low self- confidence today and her music really helps with that. I found out on Twitter that she had been doing charity events for Feeding America and I really wanted to get involved. I've also seen some other celebrities participating such as the cast of one of my favourite sit- com's, Friends. I instantly downloaded the App in hopes to g...