On Tuesday 26th June, I held a live twitter Q&A discussion about my biggest journey, how it went, and what was behind it…. read the whole conversation below, with a few extra comments and some pics thrown in. #bigjourneytalks Evening twitter…. how are you ? Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share [...]
I’ve published a a couple of blogs I wrote in my personal journal before and I’m going to share a few more over the next week or two. Through all the planning and talking about the whole Biggest Journey project, I’ve started to become really aware of just how different I feel compared to last [...]
Mental illness isn’t just hard on the people that suffer from it, but also those who live with them, support them, who love them. My wife has been incredibly supportive through my whole journey and she wanted to write a guest post for the blog, explaining things from her perspective – I hope this is [...]
Having just followed a link from twitter to read a blog by Paul Brook, entitled Riding the Recovery Rollercoaster, I was reminded of a post on my private blog I wrote at the beginning of March last year. This was a couple of weeks of being diagnosed with depression and the final thing that pushed [...]
A few days ago, I caught up with twitter friend and cycling podcaster, John Galloway from Velocast. It turns out that John has his own history of mental health challenges and we recorded a great chat about my Biggest Journey challenge and the reasons behind why I’m doing it. Listen here: The Sofaboy Chronicles, Episode 1 [...]
I’m really pleased at how the promotion of my Biggest Journey challenge is going, with lots of chat on twitter and other social media. Last week, the wonderful Sarah Urquhart sent out a press release to try and get the word out to traditional printed media and yesterday the Edinburgh Evening news featured my story [...]
I just posted a tweet simply saying this: Today has been a good day. I think it’s sometimes important to recognise that. … and then remembered a wee personal blog post I wrote just over a year ago. I was diagnosed with depression in early February 2011 and I feel I’ve come so far since [...]
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