Kindness of the month.

As some of you may know, I previously ran a Random Act of Kindness project/blog/community. However after falling so unwell my pages and blog were left to go stagnant. I knew I wanted to start a blog about recovery, lifestyle and to share my story. Acts of kindness is something I feel passionate about so incorporating it into my new blog was a no brainer! The above photos are a few of the things that I have done in the past. The little girl up there is my daughter - she and I made up heart balloons, get well cards and little guardian angel key rings to give to the poorly children in Naomi House Hospice. I recently joined an international crystal/rock/mineral trading group on Facebook and each Wednesday is called Wish Wednesday. So we have a feed that day for everyone to post a wish for a single stone/crystal that they really want or need, and the idea is that people grant those wishes for one another. I have been granting wishes every week, usually 2-3 per week. My crystal collection is so big, it is nice to share it with people. So since starting up my blog that is what I have been doing kindness wise. As you can see from the photos above I also have a box of books that I put out on the road for passers by to take a book if they want one. Although small acts, they have made many people really happy - I just love that! I absolutely love doing things like this - I find that even if short lived, I feel a little more positive about myself. In general I see myself as a really horrible person and think that everyone hates me; so it makes a change being able to contemplate the possibility that I am not a completely awful person after all. I like to make others happy and I am so pleased to be well enough to fully get back into doing my acts of kindness :) Although saying that, I am AMAZING at overthinking and analysing things within an inch of their lives; I then manage to bend it to fit and substantiate my negative sense of self. For example, I end up thinking about why I like to do acts of kindness because I am a horrible person. So I must only be doing those things to disguise how horrible I am, so I look like a good person to others but inside I am not. I mean, how mental is that!? Who even thinks about things like that! Why do I always have to wind back up in a negative place? I guess that is just the nature of mental illness... So, back to being kind... My plan is to write a monthly blog post to review what kindness I have sent out into the world, and what kindness I have experienced back - it is good to reflect on this too as it encourages our brain to notice the positive things rather than just the negative. I don't want my blog to be heavy and sad all of the time, which it could easily become with all the stories I have to share! I hope you will enjoy this aspect of my lifestyle as much as I do - perhaps start spreading some love and kindness of your own too! My Bunny Crystal Life xxx