Dealing With Grief Around The Holidays

This post is a part of Nicole Carman's mental health-related holiday post series, "Taking Care of your Mental Health during the Holiday Season." To see the post line-up for the previous and remaining posts in this series, please visit <a href="https://www.navigatingdarkness.com/taking-care-of-your-mental-health-during-the-holiday-season">this page on Nicole's blog, Navigating Darkness</a>. If you enjoy this post, please comment and …

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What I love the most about Christmas

Growing up my reasons for loving Christmas have changed. When I was younger like lots of kids I was excited for the presents, the surprises seeing what ‘Santa’ had got me (totally couldn’t hear my mum getting the presents from her room as I was too excited to sleep). As I told into my teen …

Top 10 Christmas Movies!

There are so many amazing Christmas films around, so it was hard to choose my top 10. These are in no particular order as I honestly couldn't choose my absolute favourite. The Santa Clause How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Holiday  Home Alone The Polar Express Fred Claus Arthur Christmas  Scrooged The Nightmare Before Christmas  …

Christmas Tree o’Christmas Tree!

Blogmas is upon us! To kick it off here I'm Trying to be Lauren I thought I'd show you the decorations in my house hold. My Dad each year goes bigger and better. Basically has a competition with himself. The outside of the house is his domin so we just let him get on with …

BLOGMAS 2018!

Blogmas is finally upon us again. I adore this time of year, especially reading other peoples posts on all sorts of subjects around this time of year. I hoping that I have been organised enough to have all my posts up and photos ready but we will just have to see. I'm hoping to have …

The University Diaries: Week 2

Second week of university is over, and the pressure is defiantly on. I basically did a lot of work. In my business photography class, we had to take headshot of each other, which we had to re-take for the next week. I went out on student night, pre-drinks were amazing, but I’m not sure what …

From Today

I will stop comparing myself to everyone else. From today I will love myself for who I am. From today I will put myself first.  Something this morning just seemed to click. After years of fighting my demons alone I have decided to seek help. I just want to thank those of you who have …

The University Diaries: Week One

I love having series here on Trying to be Lauren. Therefore, since I am in my last year of university I thought I'd document it. My first week was better than I thought. We were eased into the week. currently I am in three days a week, but this could go down to two. I …

Final Words About Uni

I hope that these blog posts have helped in some shape or form. University is a big deal, for me it opened my eyes to the wider picture, pushing me to make decisions I never thought about. If you are heading toward university or a new job or different type of education I wish you …

Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting Uni

University is a funny thing and nothing like I thought it was going to be. Here are the things I wish I’d known before I started.  ·      Everyone is going to take the mick out of your accent.  ·      It would get lonely at times.  ·      The high school drama you thought you left behind, hasn’t been left …