I’ve set a challenge for myself for July: to run 5k every day for the whole month.

I’ve been struggling with depression and high functioning anxiety for the better part of my 20’s.

The time has come, and I will be wrapping up 1 ½ years of counselling this month… Admitting to myself that I couldn’t cope with it all on my own and asking for help was the hardest, most uncomfortable thing I have ever done.

My progress with therapy hasn’t been linear. I’ve had good sessions, bad ones and everything in between, but looking back it’s one of the best things I have done for myself. It’s been a lot of work, and to mark this achievement, I wanted to do something that is going to be challenging me, albeit in a different way.

I’ll have days when I will hate it, days when I wish I hadn’t start it, but I’ve never regretted going for a run… and it’s the same with counselling, I never left a session thinking I wish I didn’t show up that day, put in the effort and work, as hard as it may have been at the time.

During this month, I’ll be fundraising and hoping to raise some money for The Counselling Foundation as a thank you for all their help. The Foundation is a non-profit organisation, a charity whose aim is to make counselling accessible and affordable, so if any of you can, please donate a few quid and support me with my wee running challenge x x