Catherine Lorimer's Guide to Life
Fifty something, strong minded independent woman who lives with a black Labrador called Pippa. I have lived a full life, been married, divorced, travelled with others and alone, been to concerts and festivals alone. I have run a marathon, owned and run my own small holding and separate dog walking business, I ride horses and currently own a rare breed Fell pony called Merlin. I have taken part in dressage, show jumping, cross country and long distance rides. I have been on a South African Wildlife Safari, riding horses amongst zebras and giraffe. I have worked for a Royal College, a Castle on a small country estate, in book production and publishing, for Italian and Chinese companies.
I started my podcast to help me survive divorce, it has taken me on an incredible journey and I have pushed myself out of my comfort zone, doing activities the stories of which are available for you to listen to. I have met some incredible individuals along the way, real people who have overcome lots of different life challenges.
I have found myself having coffee with Paula Radcliff in Manchester, I have met Chris Evans, been interviewed by him on Virgin Radio, I have met the inspirational Richard Branson, sat next to the lovely Jake Quickendon at a charity event and asked him if he was on Instagram. I have worked on my self development, physical fitness and mental health, having suffered from social anxiety and had a massive lack of self confidence and I talk about this in my podcasts. By pushing myself to do all the things I talk about in my podcast, I have built up resilience. I am now mentally strong enough to date and my podcasts are currently on this topic. There are interviews with some truly inspiring real people to have a listen to, real life role models, who have overcome real life situations which you can listen to for advice and encouragement to help you through life.
Catherine Lorimer's Guide to Life
Helping you to Find Your Happy - step one - Identifying what is making you unhappy
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At 50, I have managed to find a way to go from being really unhappy and in a negative place to being really happy without taking any medications or recreational drugs or drinking any alcohol. I have found happiness and positivity from within myself. It is becoming increasingly obvious that there is not much support from Mental Health out there, so having experienced poor mental health myself and got myself through it, I am here to help you in the next few weeks with a series of podcast helping you to find your happy.
This week I talk through identifying what it is that is making you feel unhappy, I no that sometimes you can't or do want to talk to anyone about it, now you don't have to you can just listen to me guiding you through what might be causing you stress and worry in your life, from my own personal experience.
When you have identified what is making you unhappy, before you make any changes you need to do a bit of work on yourself to get yourself to a place where you are able to deal with everything and I will talk you through the process of how I did this starting this week with self care.