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April 21, 2020

The downside to Blogging – when life gets in the way

Blogging can be difficult when life events happen unexpectedly

This post outlines the downside to blogging – Blogging is a great way of expressing yourself but sometimes life gets in the way. This is my first post for almost a year.

Sadly my lovely brother who had always been fit and healthy, a non smoking, non drinking fitness freak was diagnosed with lung cancer last year. It was a devastating shock to us all. After initially being told it was curable things took a rapid downward turn 2 weeks after the end of his course of radiotherapy and he was told it was terminal.

His story is really shocking and too complicated to actually tell, the aim of this post is just to give a brief overview of how sudden bad news can cause your normal routine totally upside down.

Some bloggers will continue and use their blog as an outlet for their emotions. I have to say that I can truly take my hat off to those who continue to blog and create content during a life changing upheaval.

I was totally the opposite, my whole world was consumed by Cancer and emotion. I found it hard to focus on anything else. My usual hobbies like entering competitions and watching football became much less important than before. All I wanted to do was be around my brother, husband, brother and immediate family. It was all consuming.

The downside to blogging affected me individually, although I could not create any content of my own, I did continue to read other bloggers content and stories and found reading novels my only comfort. Everything else was too much effort! I know I could have continued to repost and update current content but I just couldn’t find it in me to do this.

Reading is a great stress reliever

Books and Tea – my stress relievers

Sadly my brother lost his battle with Cancer and passed away at the end of January. We are gradually getting back to some kind of normality, well as much as we can given the current global circumstances. I can now begin to think of topics and content to write about. I know I have had visitors to my blog throughout this time and I am so grateful to anyone who has taken the time to read. Thank you form the bottom of my heart.

When Life Gets in the way of Blogging

To my loyal subscribers thank you for staying around. Bear with me and normal blogging service will be recommenced soon. This isĀ  a very short post but it’s the beginning of a new stage of my life and blogging career.

If anyone else has faced a blogging crisis due to unexpected life events I would love to know what you did to get by?

 

Stay safe

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Filed Under: Blogging, Health and Wellbeing Tagged With: Bereavement, Blogger Life, Blogging, When life stops you blogging

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  1. Evan says

    April 21, 2020 at 9:55 am

    Sorry for your loss

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    • earlyretirementrocks says

      April 21, 2020 at 12:53 pm

      Thank you very much it is appreciated

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  2. Jo Jackson says

    April 21, 2020 at 11:05 am

    All the best Elaine.

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    • earlyretirementrocks says

      April 21, 2020 at 12:54 pm

      Thank you Jo it’s very much appreciated. Onwards and upwards x

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I’m Elaine a Neonatal Nurse who retired from the NHS at age 55. I’m loving the 3rd age of my life – Retirement is the best job I ever had. Being married for 35 years I am lucky to have someone to share life with.

I’m a foodie who enjoys travel, football and my home.

I love to share over 50’s lifestyle tips including age appropriate beauty reviews, coping with the trials and tribulations of the Menopause, weight gain around the middle, fashion, travel and food including recipes and restaurant reviews.

I want to challenge the myth that life ends at retirement.

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