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Welcome to our Day 6 of our "10 days of self-care" & thank you for putting you first & joining us. Today, we are going to put some time aside to rest and discover journaling which has been found to be a great form of self-care, and the benefits of journaling. We are sending you the warmest wishes for 2023! Let's keep getting  ourselves set up in the right way for the year. 

Welcome to our Day 5, also New Years Day, of our "10 days of self-care" & thank you for putting you first & joining us. Today, we are going to put some time aside to rest and discover the importance of rest, although as I'm sure a lot of people will know reading this, often, we find out why rest is important when it's too late! 

 Welcome to our Day 4, also New Years Eve, of our "10 days of self-care" & thank you for putting you first & joining us. Today, we are going to have a go at something we mentioned in our "Listen" post yesterday: Meditation. Our focus is to find out what meditation is, why meditation can be beneficial and to also try a 1-minute mini-meditation, focused on relieving stress. 

Welcome to our Day 3 of our "10 days of self-care" & thank you for putting you first & joining us. Today, our focus will be on giving our eyes a break within our technology-heavy world. Try to set 15 minutes a time to try one of the ideas below. With our focus being to give your eyes a break, this blog post isn't going to be a long one!

Welcome to our Day 2 of our "10 days of self-care" & thank you for putting you first & joining us. Today, put just 15 minutes aside (or more if you can) to get cosy, make a warm drink & embark on a new journey. Whether you're an avid reader or have needed a prompt to reach for a book again, we are going to share some of the benefits of reading.

Welcome to our "10 days of self-care" & thank you for putting you first & joining us. We recently told you about our 10 days of self-care, which we are now starting with Day 1, running up to (and including) Day 10 which will be Friday 6th January 2023. We hope you had a lovely Christmas and now, it's time for some you time every day for the rest of the year and to kick start your 2023.

With Christmas being so close (it's Christmas Day in just a few days), it can be a time of anxiety and apprehension if you have an ostomy, especially if you're new to the ostomy world & this is your first ostomy Christmas. Daily routines change & everything gets mixed up, you forget what day it is & can find the changes hard, especially trying to navigate them with a stoma.

Christmas time can feel overwhelming for a lot of people at the best of times, then there's adding an ostomy into the mix! It's fair to say that you are not alone if you are worried about navigating Christmas, but thankfully, there are some top tips in this post from fellow ostomates...

When our son was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at the age of thirteen, my initial reaction was one of fear, what would this mean for him, how would his life change? Then disbelief, how could this be happening to our previously super healthy, athletic son? Then guilt, was it something I’d done to cause him to develop Crohn's, was it genetic or lifestyle, could I have done something different to protect him from this wretched disease?

Winter brings about many changes, some welcome, some not so much. I love nothing more than lighting every candle in the house, my twinkly tree on, the dark nights and watching GoggleBox on the telly under a throw with the family. But what does it mean for us ostomates? As we all know, we are all so different in the reason why we got a ticket to the club, and what impact that has on our wider health. For some the arrival of Winter may not change that much, for others it can present the need to adapt and tweak a few different things.