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How To Make a Comfort Box — A Nurturing Gift for Your Future Self

When you’re in a period of poor mental health, it’s often difficult to know how to help yourself feel better.

5 min readAug 14, 2023

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Self Care for Tough Days. How To Look After Yourself When You’re Struggling

This piece is for you if you sometimes have bad days.

2 min readAug 3, 2023

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Making Time for Silence. One Quick Tip To Reclaim Your Thoughts and Revive Your Creativity

When was the last time you left your house without your phone?

3 min readAug 1, 2023

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Making Time for Silence. One Quick Tip To Reclaim Your Thoughts and Revive Your Creativity

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Habit Hacking: How to Make Good Stuff Easy (and Bad Stuff Hard)

How to leverage convenience to help you build new habits and let go of old ones

3 min read1 day ago

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A pair of pears. Nothing really to do with the article, except that it’s about habit *pairing*.

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My Body and I…

Becoming friends again after those wilderness years.

5 min read2 days ago

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The Magic of a Child’s Pace

Make time for them to be in charge and see where it takes you.

4 min read4 days ago

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Discomfort and Resilience: Why I Swim

Personal cold-water ramblings

3 min read6 days ago

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5 Things I Do To Keep My Depression at Bay

Building a life that lets me dance with depression rather than fighting it all the time.

4 min readJun 18, 2024

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The silhouette of a person with long hair and glasses dancing on a sunset beach.

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Tiny Delightful Things

The practice of seeking joy and delight each day

2 min readJun 16, 2024

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Unsheathe Your Creative Soul: How to Infuse Life with Creativity (and Maybe Make a Thing or Two)

How to start living creatively, rather than just saving other people’s creative work and never trying it yourself.

4 min readJun 16, 2024

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Liz Barrett

Liz Barrett

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Sea-swimming, sourdough-baking, food-fermenting, freelancer. Mental health writer | Self-care & mental wellness for parents | LizBarrettWrites.com

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