Dealing with Anxiety in School

My school experience has been pretty different to most people so when it comes to advice on school related issues, I'm not the best. But one thing I do know a whole lot about is anxiety. I'm probably anxious about 95% of the time and in school it gets much worse. So today I thought I'd share with you some of the things I do to reduce anxiety about and in school. 

Starting To Wear Makeup - Beau Bloggers Collaboration

In the blogging community I am part of, called Beau Bloggers, we were given a challenge which was to pair up and both talk about something within a given theme. I was paired with the wonderful Izzy K (who's blog and YouTube channel I will link here) and we were given a problem and a solution. For this we decided to talk about when you should start to wear makeup as it is something Izzy would like to talk about and is relevant to my post An Awkward Question: Makeup from about a week ago. If you'd like to see a more detailed description of my thoughts on makeup, you can read that post. 

An Awkward Question: MakeUp

My last An Awkward Question post was about YouTube and I'd like to thank those of you who gave advice, it was very helpful. So today I thought I'd write another. If you don't know what An Awkward Question is, it is a blogging series I just started where I take a question or dilemma I have and ask you for your opinion. Most of things in this series will not normally be considered to be awkward but because I have a strange brain that struggles to understand most aspects of human life, I think that it is. My second awkward question of the series is: How do I start wearing makeup?

Erin Writes #3 Writers Block

I can go months without having a single word to write in my books. It can be very annoying, especially if I've set myself a deadline. And I find that if I force myself to write, it is never as good. So today I thought I would share with you some tips to help with writers block. 

Depression- A Tumblr Post

I have not been good at posting recently. I missed about three opportunities in the past two weeks when I could have written but I just didn't. I don't know why. Today I won't be writing anything too big I just wanted share with you a post I found on Tumblr a few days ago about depression. 

Erin Writes #1

The one thing in life I wish for most for myself is to write a book and have it published. It's my dream to see a book I wrote on shelves in Waterstones and it sounds strange but I wish that one day Carrie Hope Fletcher (who is Itswaypastmybedtime on YouTube) will read a book of mine.

What I'd tell Erin this time last year

It was my birthday yesterday and I'd planned on writing this post then but didn't find the time. So here we are instead today and I thought I would share with you a few of things I would like to say to a year younger me. I'd like to tell younger Erin some of things I wish I had known or the things I wish I did differently.  


1. Don't work too hard towards the end of the school year. I know you felt like you needed to (and honestly you did) but it was completely draining and you will regret not letting yourself have a break. Of course working is important but it took over all your time because you were convinced everything was going to go badly. Just remember you can do the same amount of work if you concentrate more than if you worked all of the time.

2.  Do not eat the birthday cake. As much as you want to, it will make you feel like you can't breath because you just had your tonsils out and it affects how you can eat. So please just don't do it.

3. Say yes to more of the things people ask you. Go out as much as you can and be with people. Don't stay at home instead because you've nearly finished a season of Gossip Girl.

4. Try to talk to people more even though it's difficult because soon you're going to feel like you can't even try anymore. And trust me when I say that you will be happier in a years time if you do. 

5. Know that it doesn't get easier, if anything life gets a whole lot harder, but it also become more simple (if that makes sense). I'd like you to know that you do start talking about all the problems you have and it changes you but sadly I can't tell you if it's for the better just yet.

6. Be honest with your friends and all the other people that are asking questions because it's going to be a lot less complicated than you think. (And carrying on from that, stop telling people that "it's complicated" if they ask you whats been wrong. It's just annoying so stop doing it.)


Sorry if none of those life tips for me a year ago made any sense or if they were all just a little sad. But I hope you enjoyed them. I will be back soon with What I got for my Birthday and hopefully what I bought with the money from my birthday so this will probably become a very haul filled month (hope that's okay). That's all for now. Hope to see you next time, bye

Depression- My questions

For a long time I knew I had something wrong with me but I never told anyone so a lot of the questions I had couldn't be answered. I thought today I would write about a few of the things that worried me which I think would have helped if I'd known the answers to. Of course depression is different for everyone so answers can change. Here we go:

Depression- The songs

I've been wanting to write about depression but felt that I didn't want to just give advice or tell a story so today I've going to tell you about the songs I listen to which I find comforting. Of course all these songs are completely just my personal preference as everyone's depression and coping strategies are different. The titles are links to each song if you'd like to listen, so here we go: