This year I started using four apps and would love to recommend them to you. So let's jump right in! MENTAL HEALTH / WELLNESS Unstuck App The love here is real. CBT based therapy journaling got me seriously, like the name suggests, unstuck. Powered by amazing technique, intuitive UI, and a pretty clever AI assistant, this app promises and overdelivers. It works on a pretty easy principle: Check in daily or choose one of the presets. My most used is Thought Journal where you

The poem has silenced Crumbled in the hands of "I am fine" I am un-pathetically "OK" So what is the point Of bleeding letters On this empty paper If the sorrow disappears The verse also leaves Empty are the hands Of a happy artist.

Lately, after the ending of my relationship, I've been feeling the intense need for a hug. Excuse the transparency (it's what I'm all about - and the title of this blog). Paired with an intense pain in my leg, exiting a year of tremendous stress & turmoil, I just gave myself a hug. It felt nice. It felt like a soft touch to every nerve ending I have in my body. It felt like what I needed. Often enough we crave outside tenderness, without realising we are our biggest source of