Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
The beginning
This is a little blog to document my journey over a few different parts of my life. I will be mainly focusing on mental health, different conditions physically and mentally as well as documenting my weight loss journey throughout this blog.
I feel as though a blog may help others and hopefully inspire a lot of others to take that first step in their journey, whether that be weight loss, within a personal or professional aspect.
Here is a little something about me, I have lost 6.5 stone in just over a year. I lost 1.5 alone off my own accord and then currently 5 stone with slimming world. This has helped me quite a lot but I will do another post in more depth about that. I have suffered through depression, anxiety and being in situations which were not the best for my mental health. There is a few other things I have experiened from bullying to constantly having a daily battle with BDD. For those that don’t know it is Body Dysmorphia Disorder which I will touch on in another blog.
This is a blog which is somewhere I can hopefully show people that no matter what everyone has a daily battle but there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
I better sign off as I have work to get to and I can’t wait to share my journey with you all to a better health, mentally and physically.
T x
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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