I somehow ended up in a random part of the internet watching clips of the 2000s TV show ‘This Time Next Year’, and it actually really inspired me? So I thought I’d share my reflections!

What is This Time Next Year?
This Time Next Year was one of those feel-good 2000/2010s reality/entertainment shows, broadcast on ITV and hosted by good old’ Davina McCall. The show follows different people each week who have vowed to make extreme changes in their lives over a 12 month period, be that weight loss, adopting a child, gaining a place at the olympics, finding a long lost friend, etc. You hear their pledge and then it fast forwards and they return to the studio, to see if they achieved their goal. It’s very emotional, with lots of ‘sobstories’, but with almost always heartwarming ends. It ran for many seasons and there are lots of clips on YouTube!

What are my reflections?
First and foremost, that anyone, at any stage, can turn their life around. At any time. You just need commitment, determination, and to do it. It might be immeasurably hard, but you can, and there is rarely a ‘too late’ situation. I guess I just felt very inspired, and empowered!
It also made me think about how hard change is. That’s one thing that I think I does make a lot of my life really difficult – my fear of change and rigid routine. It has made moving on from trauma, changing some of my coping mechanisms, and generally recovering from my mental health stuffs, extremely hard. But saying that..LIKE the people in the show aha, hard stuff can be overcome.

I’ve put together a few things I am trying to remind myself as I work on recovery, and just whenever I go through difficult changes..especially when they involve personally pushing myself.

Do you ever get inspired or have emotional reflections from random places? I might keep posting them!