Amy Eksteen

Self-care Hacks

When I started my blog, long ago in January, I promised myself that I would hold myself accountable to write and publish one post every week. One of my main goals for the year is to post one blog post for every week this year, a total of 52 posts. Creating this goal has honestly […]

A Masterpiece

When deciding on what source of motivation I wanted myself and my readers to focus on this month, the verse Psalm 139:14 kept popping up. Psalm 139 has been a chapter that has seen me through some really dark times. It has always been a source of encouragement, an ultimate reminder of God’s promises and […]

Timing

I don’t know about you, but time is beginning to feel as if it’s passing us by at high speed lately. This is why I really felt the need to briefly speak about timing, for the last week of August. I feel as if we live in what we can call a ‘microwave society’. We […]

Your go-to Counsellor Guide

Mental Health Series Part 3 As a former psychology student, current mental health professional and user of psychological services, I have come to notice that there tends to be confusion surrounding the different psychological professionals and their scopes of practice. I have come to notice that there seems to be a basic unawareness regarding the […]

Intention

I wanted to end off the month of July talking about a topic that I find pretty enlightening – intention. The question we can begin asking ourselves is what would life look like if we lived in every moment intentionally? I came across a quote that said “show up in every single moment like you’re […]

Me First

The blog post for this week will be celebrating the publication of 30 posts on my blog! Writing has always been one of my favourite things to do, but I never imagined I would be sharing a piece of my heart, through my words, for everybody to see on a weekly basis. Every week when […]

Funky Town

Let us be honest and real with each other for a second. We have all, at some point in our lives, dealt with really bad ‘funks’. ‘Funks’ as in random phases we may find ourselves in where we deal with many different feelings and emotions, usually ones that aren’t so positive, that can feel consuming, […]

Kind Words

When thinking about July’s source of inspiration, Proverbs 16:24 really stood out to me. This month, I want to focus on the power of ruminating on kind words. I want to highlight the importance of prioritising yourself, your thoughts, emotions and feelings. I want to reiterate the importance of self-love, self-care and self-acceptance as well […]

Milk and Honey

Before we get stuck into today’s blog topic, I would like you to take some time to reflect on the last six months and congratulate yourself on doing your very best every single day, even if ‘doing your best’ means accomplishing your goals you’ve set yourself for 2019 or simply, getting out of bed in […]

Catching Feelings

I was planning to write about something completely different this week, but to my surprise, another topic grabbed my attention and I felt that I needed to write about it. I came across a piece of writing that highlighted something of importance to me and I guess it perfectly put into words what I have […]