Negative feelings are awful things to deal with at any time and many people out there are quite happy to try and make you feel bad about yourself for a whole host of reasons.

For this reason, I always remind myself how far I have come in my life. As with everyone else, I have had bad things happen that I could have used as an excuse to do nothing and sit in my own misery for the rest of my life, but I didn’t! I got up and got on with things and have ended up in a really good place. I have a decent job, a lovely family, I live in a place I’m happy to live in and most of all I’m still alive! Most of all, I have the freedom to choose how and where I live my life-if I don’t like something, I have the power to change it! Not everyone has these things.

Not all things are easy, but I just think about what I have and what I have gained, especially in the last five years. If I was that useless or incompetent then I wouldn’t be where I am now! That always dispels the negative thoughts.