The Sunshine Blogger Award

Yesterday being the 28th January 2018 I was nominated for the sunshine blogger award by the lovely blogger Eva Lily - check out her blog @EvaLilyBlog
Thank you so much for this I absolutely am loving the blogging community since I have started blogging just over a month ago!

Rules

1. Thank blogger(s) who nominated you for the blog post and link back to their blog.

2. Answer the 11 questions the blogger asked you.

3. Nominate 11 new blogs to receive the award and write them 11 new questions.

4. List the rules and display the Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post and/or on your blog.

Eva Lily's Questions and My Answers

1. Why did you start your blog and how long have you been blogging?
I started blogging just over a month ago, I started blogging about my story with mental health and posted daily for quite some time on my day to day life. I am now blogging once a week still about my mental health. The reason I started it was because I wanted to post somewhere how I was feeling and to build my confidence in sharing my story.

2.. Who do you aim your blog at?
I aim my blog at anyone who might be struggling with their mental health, people who want to know more about the struggles with mental health and the main reason to just make more awareness to the reality of mental health.

3. What do you most enjoy about blogging?
The support from everyone else, I really did not expect my blog to take off I expected like 10 views maximum but I am well and truly amazed by the comments and messages I get on twitter its absolutely lovely. The blogging community is just one of the best things to belong to!

4. What would you like to change about blogging?
I would just like to change the layout of my blog more freely but I suppose there is an option to do that I just haven't come across it yet. *hint* if any of you bloggers could give me some advice that would be wicked!!!

5. Do you blog full time or balance it alongside another career and if so what?
Currently blogging when I feel able to, I am about to start a new job on nights so I am hoping ill be able to continue managing my blog!

6. What tips would you give to your fellow bloggers?
Get involved, don't be scared. Get to know other bloggers, follow bloggers similar to you after all they have the same interests. The blogging community is amazing so don't hold back promote your blog as much as you like!

7. What inspires your blogs/how do you come up with new content?
I blog mainly how I feel and how my day or week has been so it just comes to me. I have made a few posts inspired from other bloggers though.

8. What is the one item that you have purchased that helps make your blogging life easier?
I wouldn't call it an item but an app. Twitter. Although I have my personal twitter I felt I needed an account especially dedicated to blogging and other bloggers and its made life so much easier.

9. What is your dream job?
My dream job is to be a mental health nurse, I absolutely can't see myself be anywhere else.

10. What do you aim to achieve by the end of the year?
I want to be in a better place mentally. I want to be able to prove people wrong I want to gain a place at a university to study mental health nursing and I just want my blog to grow!

11. What is your favourite book and why?

This is such a difficult one, I am going to have to say The Wonder by Emma Donoghue. The book is just based after the war, in Ireland. It's a psychodrama and it's about these nurses who are to observe a child who has not eaten for 4 months. I don't want to ruin it but it has such a dramatic ending and left me speechless.

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