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‘Mental Health for All’: Make time for therapy in our own way – World Mental Health Day
As the clay spread through my finger tips, I felt the warmth of the soft texture as I moulded it into a shape. I didn’t know what I was making until the end of the session and my wonky knife sculpture was laid to dry next to my “box of feelings.” Whilst I...
WHAT IS DYSLEXIA & DYSPRAXIA? Inside my dyselxic dyspraxic brain…
When I knocked over my coffee to sit to write this column the other week, I somehow managed to serendipitously cover my macbook, fabric chair and carpet, it is with some skill that on a daily basis I break at least one item in my house and knock over many more. ...
WORKING IN MEDIA: “AND FINALLY…” MAKING A MOVE UP NORTH – NEWSPAPER COLUMN
Up at 5am after a restless night with my new-born baby, I got dressed in the dark as I packed the car with baby supplies and my university books and a breast pump. 5.30am and I was in the car setting off for my daily commute from Wakefield to MediaCity in Salford. It...
HEALTHY FOOD AND FITNESS: What’s in our cupboards? And working out at home
From what to eat, buy, wear and use... working out at home and eating as healthy as possible doesn't need to be difficult. Here I have comprised a quick list with @greenhealthPT on what to buy for busy people... @mamameiblog and @greenhealthpt FOOD AND DRINK IDEAS...
WOMEN’S JOURNEYS: Real Women who stride for change – Simply Ladies
Shoulders back, chest up, one foot in front of the other, I smiled as I attempted to glide down the catwalk, momentarily forgetting the messy house, the worries over whether my children would eat the tea I had left them to devour with their grandparents and I breathed...
LIFE LESSONS from Lockdown: The good, the bad, the ugly and the funny! – Fifty Shades of Motherhood
I often say this Coronavirus Pandemic has brought the best out in people and sometimes the worst or a combination of the two in lockdown. But I am weirdly thankful that whilst lockdown pushed me to an all time low in terms of my own mental health it has also given me...
Family, Health, Life & Reviews…
Mama Mei (aka Sophie Mei Lan) is a multi-award-winning Blogger and Vlogger specialising in Mental Health & Wellbeing and Family Fitness.
Mum-of-two Sophie can be found running with her buggy throughout Yorkshire or drinking coffee and eating plant-based food.
She is a qualified Journalist and Film-maker, having worked for local and national press as well as being dubbed “Britain’s best Bellydancer!”
Sophie has now turned her talents to blogging, vlogging, column writing, speaking and running Blog Up North Magazine and Influencer Network.
She chats mainly about Family, Health, Life, Fitness and Campaigns. As well as doing Reviews and offering Competitions!
Family
REAL Breastfeeding photos: Multi-tasking, relationships and hospital
When my daughter was on a ventilator on the Intensive Care Unit at Leeds General Infirmary, I found myself expressing breastmilk every hour via the hospital-grade breastfeeding machine in the family room. It was my second child and whilst it took a while to get used...
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Win a Young Driver experience + our review
“Do you know what I'm doing tomorrow? I'm driving a car!” My eldest daughter Jasmine, 6, had been counting down to her day at Young Driver (and showing off regularly about it). There was so much excitement built up for Jasmine's day at Young Driver because she would...
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Play Day: Why playing is vital + top ideas of games to play
I spent my childhood playing on our street, from riding our bikes to water fights, football and rollerskating. We would spend hours outdoors come rain or shine, only to be ushered inside when it was a mealtime. Nowadays it is not the same. Street Play seems to be...
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BODY IMAGE: How social media has helped and hindered my eating disorder recovery – Mental Health Awareness Week
Staring at my face, I would start sucking in my cheeks and pulling any bit of fat with my hands. I was grotesque and I just wanted to be invisible, and this was even before social media really took off... This Mental Health Awareness Week is focusing on Body Image -...
EATING DISORDER STEREOTYPES: Who can get an eating disorder? Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2019 #EDAW19
Many people with eating disorders suffer in silence because they don’t feel they “fit in” to the norm of what someone with an eating disorder looks like. But it’s not just the person struggling who has stereotypes engraved into their head, as I’ve found, it’s health...
New Year Resolutions, Goal Setting and Dieting: What you actually need to do
I love goal-setting and making New Year's Resolutions in January, it’s kind of like a free trial month for you to explore your goals and then set them in stone from February (or for me, Chinese New Year). But as someone who blogs and vlogs about mental health as well...