How making a Bucket List or Wish List can invigorate your recovery from chronic illness

A video on how important it can be to think about compiling a wish list or bucket list in recovery. It is a useful tool for thinking about what exciting and interesting things you may wish to do or experience when you are able to.

Hope is a very useful and powerful feeling and in creating a wish list you can feed that hope with achievable targets and a sense of belief that you will be able to fulfil your wishes. This isn't supposed to be setting down in black and white your life plan or what you want to do for the next 50 years, but a compilation of your short term desires. Whether these wishes are as small as making a cup of tea or as grand as travelling to a far off country for a holiday or experiencing a feeling like sand squished beneath your feet or rain on your face they inspire and energise the people involved.

"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible."
Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)

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10 Things I want to do this Festive season

I am very excited to be able (health-wise) to make a list of what I would ideally like to do in December this year. I'm especially happy about it as there's a real chance I'm going to be able to achieve all 10 of them by January 1st! I haven't been this well for 11 years and I'm embracing this time of year to the full. Here's a short and provisional list:

1. Make mulled wine
2. Go ice skating - preferably at Somerset House or the British Museum
3. Sing some Christmas Carols
4. Go to a Christmas Market
5. Pick some wild mistletoe 
6. Toast marshmallows on an open fire
7. Attend Midnight Mass at cathedral - should be an incredibly festive atmosphere and a way to fulfil no. 3!
8. Go out for New Year's Eve
9. Spend lots of time with my family and friends
10. Look forward with genuine excitement and interest (and without dread/despondency/apathy) to 2014