A few of the best (and simplest) things I do for my mental health

And they have nothing to do with baths or scented candles

I’m proud to say that I’m in my 40th year of life. I didn’t have the best of starts — I’m one of those ‘elective orphans’ who chose to cut their toxic parents out of their lives for sanity’s sake.

You’d think that having had that experience once, I’d never let another toxic person in again.

Sadly, you’d be wrong.

But happily, those many experiences all taught me a ton about life, relationships and happiness, and I will share these with anyone who will listen.

There are a lot of people out there who are in relationships that you wouldn’t exactly call toxic, but they aren’t great, and that has a huge impact on our mental health.

It’s almost a downside that these relationships aren’t ‘toxic enough’, because we are so conditioned to accept our lot in life that we will accept a so-so relationship that leave us feeling half-empty, or just not really happy.

So here’s a wake up call — we all deserve to be happy! But… it is very much an inside job, and not something we can obtain from relationships alone. And of course as I know you already know, a relationship will not work if we haven’t done some work on ourselves.