Running your own business can easily lead to burnout if you don’t take the right steps to look after your mental health (check out my post ‘How to protect your mental health as a business owner’). Believe me, I understand how so many business owners feel being self-employed triggered or worsened their mental health problems. However, I’m here to advocate for the notion that running your own business can work for people like me who have a history of mental health issues. I’m n

OK, more accurately, this blog post is about how my anxiety makes me a better book editor for certain books and clients. Maybe this blog post should have been saved for Mental Health Awareness week in May, but awareness about mental health is an everyday activity for me and affects my personal and business life daily, not just for a week in May. What I mean by my anxiety improving my book editing business falls into two main categories: how my anxiety helped me identify my ni

Running your own business is empowering, creative, and is meant to afford you the all-time flexibility many of us crave for family life or other aspirations (such as travelling). It’s also incredibly stressful, time-consuming, and nerve-racking. Although I have periods of feeling overwhelmed and stressed out by the admin and marketing side of my proofreading and book editing business, overall I’ve been able to protect my mental health since setting up my own business nearly a

Background reading forms a vital part of my CPD (continual professional development) and feeds into my experience as a non-fiction book editor and proofreader for women authors writing about health and wellbeing. Reading itself is an activity that supports my own mental health (my particular experience with mental health centres around anxiety and disordered eating). Specialising in mental health ensures I can help others spread their message about their own recovery and advi