Thank you, thank you and thank you to everyone reading!

OMG! I just want to say a massive thank you for getting me to 10,000 views I am in disbelief, I can't believe so many people are reading my blog, I'm so humbled what I writing is of interest to you all.

These were my statistics today, I am just blown away so many of you all over the world are reading my posts.

So im sending you all a virtual hug!

My new blog on "Whats holding you back in life?" goes live tomorrow and I will be keeping you up to date on my articles in Infinity House Magazine a brilliant alternative to reading the same old useless gossip. For now I just want to say I am so grateful for my life right now and everything in it, thank you for supporting me on this blog, remember to come follow me on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, sending you all love and blessings. 

Hope you are feeling inspired,

Loves Annie xxx

How to get back up from been down!:-)

So, today I’m going to talk about getting through life’s' “downs”. I know everyone has been there at some stage, like had a really bad day, or you have been so sad and grief stricken that something hasn’t turned out the way they want it to be or even worse depressed.

I would like to just clarify that in this article I am not in the least way suggesting I have the cure for depression. Clinical depression is a disease and I would encourage anyone who thinks they are suffering from it to speak to someone about it or try and seek professional help.



But today, I’m going to talk about sadness, grief and mild depression. Grief is probably a feeling that now feels far away from my heart, but never far enough away that when I hear someone is going through it my mind resisting shooting right back to how it feels, and my heart remembers the sting of deep uncontrollable sorrow for a brief second, or a few minutes at worst, before fleeting back to my joyous mind-set. I’m sharing this so people feel like it’s alright to feel pain, hurt or sadness. It’s not a crime and you are not going mad. In today’s society, people seem to not want to open up about their feelings, unless it’s to show how amazing their life is, because seemly if you say your sad, broken hearten or depressed your seen as weak but it’s part of been human we all have are ups and downs.

It is our human nature to have feelings, and our duty to express them, otherwise believe it or not it will wear you down your body. It will get ill, or worse still, you will fall into depression which happens all too often to people all over the world.

Today I’m going to talk about sadness or grief a huge sorrow over you which could be caused by anything from the loss of someone important through death or the breakdown of a relationship whether a friend or partner or a general sadness in life not been how you want it to be.

This is a very personal subject, but I’m going to be open about it because I feel like the only thing that stops people from been open is fear, fear of been judged! Luckily, I gave up caring about been judged a long time ago, so fear will not stop me from being honest, and in doing so, I hope it will help anyone having these feelings to talk about them.

So almost ten years ago now I lost my brother in a terrible car accident. The whole time preceding this event now seems like time stood still for a year. I was so overcome with sadness as I had never experienced anything like it in my life. I was only eighteen, and considered myself an adult, but I did not know how to deal with this hole that had been left in my heart. I remember feeling like something significant should have happened like the sky should turn grey, I actually verbalising that actual thought to my friend at one stage and felt really upset that it hadn’t. I couldn’t understand how my world felt like it was over, and yet everyone else simply kept going with their lives as normal, doing their grocery shopping, laughing and even eating which seemed like the furthest thing from my mind as I was so heartbroken.

This part of my life had a huge impact on who I am today. I now understand when people say are sad what they mean, up until I was 18 I genuinely don’t think I knew what real sadness was.

So, over the course of the last ten years, I have felt milder forms of sadness through growing out of friendships through to not getting a job I wanted, to general mundane things. 

I have also experienced some almost equally as hard, but what I have learned from each of these episodes is that I am stronger than them. Relationships, whether it is plutonic or a friendship break down, you might not get the job you want or the outcome you desired, but every cloud has a silver lining believe me there is always something amazing around the corner.


At this moment in my life I am so happy I actually have found out who I am and I couldn’t have done that through letting as many relationships go as I did or fail at several things I thought I wanted to succeed at. I know life is all about family and friends, and finding out who YOU are.

I’m here to tell you that it does get better, and if you are feeling down today or any day, talk about it with someone you trust, (if you don’t trust anyone I would encourage to stop worrying about been judged and just express yourself). Take support when people offer it to you, there is plenty of time in life to give it back. Life is all about the circle of life of which giving and receiving are part of. You need to remember that life is meant to be full of ups and downs, and it is this silly idea that everything is meant to be perfect and run smoothly one hundred percent of the time that has us believe our life isn’t this great gift that it actually is. Your life is your opportunity to live, to express yourself, to be who you want to be and do what you want to do. You may not feel like doing anything today, but one day when you work at getting over your sadness you will. One day you’ll want to do everything, you’ll remember the sadness and hurt but it will not consume you, you will be able to see the good that it has come out of it and what you have learned. We all go through bad patches, and this is exactly what we can use them for, to learn and grow, that is the most positive thing to do when these so called low times hit, see what you can learn.

I have several friends that I never thought would ever even get sad let alone be depressed. They are stunningly beautiful, rich and have the world at their feet and yet sometimes the feeling hits them and they are knocked by the falls in life. What I am saying is, it doesn’t matter who you are, what you look like or how much money you have, not one single human being on this earth will have an absolutely perfect life, so just know you are normal and keep getting back up when it knocks down. Keep fighting until one day it doesn’t feel like a fight anymore, until you wake up and realise you love life, and if you haven’t yet that isn’t that something to look forward to.
I promise it will happen.

I have woken up so extremely in the last year, and realised I am so in love with life I am going to seize every hour, minute and second to just live it, as a result the last year has been one of the best of my life and trust me if it happened for me it can happen for you.

Hope you’re inspired, and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to share.

Loves Annie xxx

So these are my blog statistics in the last few hours, its growing more well known by the day and has been viewed by people all over the world!!CCCCRRRAAAAZZZYYYYYY!!!

I just want to say that you to everyone reading, I have received so many messages, comments and so much feedback today it has been overwhelming!

This has just made me even more motivated in trying to unleash some positivity on the world. You can find me on Instagram, twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Flickr if you have any comments or are affected by anything I speak about don't hesitate to drop me a message

 Im off to the gym so no post this evening but remember to stay positive peeps and keep an eye out for my next post!

P.S. Hope costs nothing, If there is anything you can do to make yourself believe that anything can happen, do it! If you never take a chance on life you'll never know what is was like to have actually lived it!

Hope your inspired!

Loves Annie xxx

Are you suffering from the green eyed monster?

Hi everyone!

I just want to say thank you so much to everyone reading I can't believe my blog is been viewed by over 5,000 people from all over the world that is just over-whelming.

I also want to apologise for the lack of posts I've been focusing my new years resolutions to take more time to myself etc.

Anyway on to todays post, over the weekend I got struck down by the green eyed monster (see below;)), and needless to say it put a bit of a dampener on my mood!

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The visual above is purely for your entertainment obviously, although it does seem like quite a realistic interpretation of one if such a thing did walk the earth.

So back to my point, on trolling through the internet doing some research, I came across the usual array of fabulous people, with what seem to be fabulous faces, hair, bodies, houses, lives, you get the picture! You name it, they've got it! Doesn't that sometimes just get under your skin? Do you think why not me? Why can't I have a Ferrari? a mansion? A flawless partner or a six figure wage slip at the end of the month.

Well it got to me and I was a little taken back because usually I would not think twice about any of these people or their lives mainly I think due to the fact that we are constantly bombarded with these images of "perfect people with perfect lives" thus we become immune to them, but for some reason I became slightly jealous.Actually if I'm been honest I was more like insanely jealous! This made me feel like someone had knocked some of the positive energy out of my body and I had to figure out how to get it back and stop this from happening again!

Wikipedia describes Envy as;

Envy (from Latin invidia) is an emotion which "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it".^[1]

Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.^[2]

 Not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his envy, but they also wish to inflict misfortune on others. Although envy is generally seen as something negative, Russell also believed that envy was a driving force behind the movement towards democracy and must be endured to achieve a more just social system.^[3] However, psychologists have recently suggested that there may be two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envy—benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force.^[4][5]

Quite an adequate description, I'm sure you'll agree? What really struck me was Bertrand Russell's description of envy as "one of the most potent causes of unhappiness" this really resonated with me.Potent just makes me think of a strong, disgusting overpowering smell and that is exactly what jealously is if we let it seep into our veins its intoxicating tainting everything in its path. It will put a horrible colour wash on everything we see, our views, our thoughts and our actions. But isn't it impossible to avoid? Isn't jealously just part of human nature?

No it isn't! It is only a part of you if you let it be and this is what I had to remind myself! 

Now as we all know whatever you resist, persists! So if you feel it welling up inside its impossible to get rid of by ignoring it alone but what will wipe out those feelings is if we turn our focus on our on individual lives and what wonderful things they are full off! Maybe you have an amazing family and great relationships with your parents kids or siblings, maybe you have wonderful friends, a job you love, a house of your own, a nice car, delicious food in your fridge.

Once again I need reminded we are not in competition with anyone but ourselves, thats such a great relief think about it.................you are under no pressure to compete with anyone in this world ..........................................when it finally sinks in its exhilarating, I really do want us all to make it and have the best lives available to us individually. 

What I've learnt The most helpful thing you can do in the face of jealously is to keep a positive attitude, there is always a blessing in your life that someone else does not have and we need to be grateful for it as well as all the other blessings we possess. Vow to think about this the next time jealously attacks, in this way we' l all get through this emotion quickly and keep a high level energy and positive attitude.

Hope you take some inspiration from this

Loves Annie xxx