Back to basics

'Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through'.  So said Joseph Conrad who's life was beset by immense and challenging difficulties.  I have been trying to do this very thing as well as holding onto what I wrote about the sun still being behind the clouds when I last blogged a couple of days ago.  Mind you, there's been no sunshine today although the ground appears to be thankfully soaking up the water!

Back to basics for me then.  Sensible balanced diet (plenty of food rich in tryptophans, that amino acid so essential to enable the body to produce serotonin, the feel good chemical), plenty of exercise and plenty of regular sleep.

To anyone who is reading this who fears losing the momentum of an ongoing, but sometimes halting, recovery, may I recommend this 'back to basics' model.  Put it another way - KISS.  That is to say, Keep It Simple Stupid'!

Don't be afraid that a bad spell is indicative of a return to emotional free fall and a decline in health from which one cannot recovery.  The 'dips' are frightening because there is always a real and honest desire not to return to where one has come from.  However, as I am trying to teach myself a dip is only a dip unless we let it become more.

I've been for a run, I've eaten a balanced diet all day (apart from the chocolate and Pinot Grigio, obviously!) and I am looking forward to my duvet.  Stay positive fellow travellers!