Julie Smith

When I am feeling this, what am I thinking about?
When I am feeling this, what state is my body in?
How was I looking after myself in the days or hours leading up to this feeling?
Is this an emotion or just physical discomfort from an unmet need?

It’s in everything you do and don’t do, in your diet and your thoughts, your movements and memories. How you feel is not simply a product of your brain.

When you feed your body with good nutrition and build up stamina and strength with regular exercise, you know that your body is more able to fight infection and heal when faced with injury.

we have more power to influence our emotions than we thought.

Low mood gives you the urge to do the things that make mood worse.

If mine is the ink then yours is the paper. Like all our adventures we got here together.

‘You know what? I know it’s going to be hard, but I know I can do it.’

Pervasive self-doubt led her to feel dread for every new change and challenge.

the major part of my role was as an educator.

She felt hope for the future