Finding happiness when… living at home in your thirties
Within my little ‘happiness‘ section on Blue Jay I wanted to have a series on ‘finding happiness when…’ and for my first one I thought I would talk about living with your parents in your thirties. Thanks to unaffordable housing, for our generation it’s almost the norm to be back home with the parents. I turned 30 last February and I was so happy that I was celebrating it in a…
How to survive Blue Monday
Today is Blue Monday. Blue Monday is supposedly the most ‘depressing’ day of the year. Christmas is over, you’ve already failed at your New Year’s resolutions and your bank balance hates you. At work, we’ve looked at the concept of Blue Monday and said - nah. Feeling sad (or ‘blue’) is normal. It can happen any time and for no reason. I’ve had times when I’m driving home from work…
How to find happiness in every day
For my first ‘happiness’ post, I wanted to talk about what happiness means to me and how everyone can find joy in every day. I used to think happiness was this big ball of magic that was always on the horizon, always out of reach. I thought if I could just do X… or if Y happened… that would be it - I would be happy. It was an elusive creature I…
Welcome
Happy New Year and welcome to Blue Jay of Happiness! 2016 was a strange one for the world and I feel like we all need to sit together, take a cleansing breath and get our game faces on for 2017 (we’ve got this). After blogging on and off for 8 years at ‘To Limbo and Beyond‘, I’ve decided to take my own cleansing breath and start again somewhere different. After…