Social Media – pros and cons

As part of my blog (and as a few of you will know), I also have an instagram account for meandmycolitis (go and find me if you want to have a look). When I started I felt that having a social media presence was really important, lots of people use instagram and people were likely to use this in order to find the IBD community online. And so we created meandmycolitis on instagram, but stuck only to instagram as it seemed like the best social media platform.  Anyway, I posted…

Tropic

A little bit more on the Roadmap to Recovery, I have joined the Tropic cult! I was told that some of the medications that I would have to take could affect my skin. Many of them do things like create dry skin and eczema and it therefore became clear that I would need to engage with some proper skincare routine. I have been washing my face and moisturising for a while but I needed a little bit more…  I got in contact with a friend who is a Tropic rep…

Headspace

Headspace is a mindfulness app which I have found really helpful in learning how to manage stress and cope with anxiety. It has different courses to help you understand mindfulness as well as SOS sections and bits to help you sleep.  I started doing the Basics course and this is 10minutes a day where they talk you through what you need to do with your breathing, what you should be focussing on and where your mind should be. I worked through to the third Basics course every day (before the…