#baking through my anxiety and depression ✨✨

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I made apple fritters for the first time 🍎🍏

[givingmyselfahug]

hi. ✨

i've created this sideblog to detail my journey through living with, healing, and recovering from, mental illness. i wanted to create a blog to talk about the ways i look after myself, am kind to myself, and the steps i'm taking to slowly begin to unpack and heal, in the hopes that someone else might find this helpful too

there won't be any gory details re: trauma, or the reasons for my mental health problems. this is a safe, positve space, with a focus on healing. i'll be talking about conditions, symptoms, and treatments, and the kindnesses i show myself to help along the way, but none of the reasons for the problems i'm facing. that information is for my friends, family, and medical professionals.

even so, if you're following me, and you want any triggers tagged, please let me know.

lets start with an introduction: hi, i'm lottie, i'm 24, and i'm currently dealing with the physical and mental effects of chronic stress. i also have anxiety, and previously suffered with depression, which has improved greatly over the years. i love baking, writing, horror stories, and terrible adaptations of cinderella.

i hope my little ramblings will help you, or will at the very least give you ways to be a little kinder to yourself 💜