Things that get me stressed: Looking for a job

By U.S. Navy photo by Airman Ricardo J. Reyes. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Back in 2016 there was a long period of time when I was unemployed. Luckily I had the support of my family at the time so I was okay financially, but still I couldn’t mooch off them forever so I knew …

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Hobbies that calm you down: Watching documentaries

Have you ever felt so down, had such a terrible day that when you got back home you thought to yourself, “Oh man there is only one thing that can make me feel better after the day I’ve had, and that’s watching a documentary.” Have you ever thought that to yourself? I certainly haven’t!  I …

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Write an ABCD poem

By William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Hello everyone, in this post I want to try exploring my creative side a little, I am going to be writing something called an ABCD poem. Unlike a normal poem where the end words are supposed to rhyme, an ABCD poem is one in which the letter …

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Ways to stop ruminating

By Pedro Ribeiro Simões from Lisboa, Portugal (Worried and solitarian) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons In one of my previous posts I had talked about ruminating and how it can just make things worse and more stressful for you when you indulge in it too much. In this post I am going to be discussing …

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Food that calms you down: Asparagus

By Daderot (Own work) [CC0 or CC0], via Wikimedia Commons It’s hard to believe sometimes how many foods there are which can, to a certain extent, help deal with stress. When I first looked it up I thought I would find 5 or 6 foods tops, boy was I wrong. In this post I am …

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It’s not what you think/Outside the box: Today

© Túrelio (via Wikimedia-Commons), 2007 / , via Wikimedia Commons Today is a very important day, why? Because it is happening to you right now. What are doing today? What are you going to do today? What have you done today? Depending upon how and when you ask them, these questions can have multiple different answers for …

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Food that calms you down: Sweet potato

By (c) 2005 Jérôme SAUTRET (image by myself) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons In this post we will be discussing another type of food that can help you deal with stress and even reduce it, sweet potato. But before we go on I have a confession to make, I don’t like …

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Games that calm you down: Unblock me

っ [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC BY-SA 2.1 jp or CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons In this post I am going to be talking about a small puzzle game which you play on your smartphones or tablets, it’s called Unblock me. In Unblock me you have a square board, a red block and a bunch of …

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