Martin Baker
@martinbaker.bsky.social
Fran and Marty live 3k miles apart. Our book HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE is for anyone supporting a friend with mental illness. We blog at www.gumonmyshoe.com Posts are Marty's. He/him/his.
TW: Mention of suicide and suicidality Sharing ahead of #WorldSuicidePreventionDay on Thursday September 10 How Are You, Really? Eight Things I've Learned About Suicidality and Self-Harm www.gumonmyshoe.com/2023/06/how-... #MondayBlogs #WSPD
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Does your friend live with bipolar disorder? Do you know how to help? We wrote HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE: The Caring Friend's Guide to Bipolar Disorder for you both. mybook.to/HighTideLowT... #friendship #bipolar #mentalhealth #suicidePreventionMonth #suicideAwareness
High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend's Guide to Bipolar Disorder (Revised edition)
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Tomorrow (Wednesday) on our blog we're showcasing our most visited blog posts of the past month. In the meantime, here's another look at How to Make Mistakes and Live Creatively. www.gumonmyshoe.com/2025/12/to-t...
To Tink or to Frog? How to Make Mistakes and Live Creatively
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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#MondayBlogs The Impact Pet Bereavement Content Can Have on Mental Health, a guest post by Aimee, Project Lead for Gracie's Way, for National Grief Awareness Day www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/the-... #grief #petBereavement
The Impact Pet Bereavement Content Can Have on Mental Health
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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#MondayBlogs You Don't Owe Anyone a Performance: How to Grieve Gently Around the People You Love www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/you-... #grief #bereavement
You Don't Owe Anyone a Performance: How to Grieve Gently Around the People You Love
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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Today is National Grief Awareness Day You Don't Owe Anyone a Performance: How to Grieve Gently Around the People You Love www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/you-... #grief #griefAwarenessDay #bereavement
You Don't Owe Anyone a Performance: How to Grieve Gently Around the People You Love
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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[new] The Impact Pet Bereavement Content Can Have on Mental Health, a guest post by Aimee, Project Lead for Gracie's Way, for National Grief Awareness Day www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/the-... #grief #griefAwarenessDay #bereavement
The Impact Pet Bereavement Content Can Have on Mental Health
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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Tomorrow (Sun) on our blog we have a new guest post by the Project Lead for Gracie's Way on the impact pet bereavement content can have on mental health. In the meantime here's another look at 3 Things a Little Dog Taught Me About Depression. www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/06/cani... #GriefAwareness
Canine Therapy: Three Things a Little Dog Taught Me About Depression
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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[new] You Don't Owe Anyone a Performance: How to Grieve Gently Around the People You Love www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/you-... #grief #griefAwarenessDay #bereavement
You Don't Owe Anyone a Performance: How to Grieve Gently Around the People You Love
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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Tomorrow (Wednesday) on our blog I'm sharing a new post about grieving gently, ahead of Grief Awareness Day (Aug 30). In the meantime, here's another look at How Sad the Song: An Atheist Ponders His Mortality. www.gumonmyshoe.com/2025/06/how-... #death #atheism #life #griefAwarenessDay
How Sad the Song: An Atheist Ponders His Mortality
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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"The #grief for my former body remains, along with days when the #unfairness of it all feels esp heavy..But slowly, I’m learning that my #body isn’t my enemy. It isn’t lying..It’s speaking in a language I’m still learning to understand.": buff.ly/uPmfLCe by @serenebutterfly.bsky.social #ChronicPain
Dynamic Disability: The Truth About Life in an Unpredictable Body –
A personal journey of living with a dynamic disability, navigating mobility aids, imposter syndrome, and finding resilience in daily life.
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One of my most powerful editorial tools in my #WritersToolbox is the Backwards Edit, where you read your manuscript from the last sentence backwards through to the first sentence. It forces you to focus on the words and not the story. #MondayBlogs #WritingCommunity
The Backwords Edit
During a backwards edit, you read a manuscript from the last sentence backwards to the first. As a consequence you focus entirely on the words.
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#MondayBlogs "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" 12 Things That Inspire Me to Write a New Blog Post Every Week www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/wher... #bloggingCommunity #blogTopics
"Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" 12 Things That Inspire Me to Write a New Blog Post Every Week
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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"In their final hours, people..regret their persistent #traits – the grudges they harboured [etc]..this recognition points to a..dimension of regret: we don’t just #regret what we did, we regret who we allowed ourselves to become.": buff.ly/XtWBbtW via @psyche.co #humanity #LifeLessons #regrets
Your deepest regrets help you see yourself more clearly | Psyche Ideas
Far from being a waste of time, the regrets that haunt you reveal more about who you are than your successes ever could
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[new] "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" 12 Things That Inspire Me to Write a New Blog Post Every Week www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/wher... #bloggingCommunity #blogTopics
"Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" 12 Things That Inspire Me to Write a New Blog Post Every Week
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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Tomorrow (Wed) on our blog I'll be sharing some of the things that inspire me to write a new blog post every week. In the meantime, here's another look at walking on the beach with friends. "I need the sea because it teaches me." — Pablo Neruda www.gumonmyshoe.com/2024/11/toge...
Togetherness Apart: Walking on the Beach With Friends
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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#MondayBlogs Don't Ask Me If I'm Happy "Happy? Why does everyone have to be happy all the time?" (Doc Martin) www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/dont... #HappinessHappensMonth
Don't Ask Me If I'm Happy
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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[new] Don't Ask Me If I'm Happy "Happy? Why does everyone have to be happy all the time?" — Doc Martin, S6E7 www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/dont...
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Tomorrow on our blog I'm sharing what happiness means to me, for #HappinessHappensMonth. In the meantime here's something that definitely DIDN'T make me happy! www.gumonmyshoe.com/2025/10/mise... #holidayFromHell
Miserable Places: My Welsh Nightmare
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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#MondayBlogs On the Pursuit of Happiness: Thoughts and Hopes for Happiness Happens Month What makes you happy? We'd love to know! 🙂 www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/on-p... #happy #HappinessHappensMonth
On the Pursuit of Happiness: Thoughts and Hopes for Happiness Happens Month
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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Today's a great day to subscribe to our blog. One new post every Wednesday on mental health and supportive friendships. GUM ON MY SHOE follow.it/gum-on-my-sh...
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This post is proving extraordinarily popular. Have you read it yet? On the Pursuit of Happiness: Thoughts and Hopes for Happiness Happens Month www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/on-p... #happy #HappinessHappensMonth
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[new] On the Pursuit of Happiness: Thoughts and Hopes for Happiness Happens Month Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this one! What does happiness mean to you? www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/08/on-p... #happy #HappinessHappensMonth
On the Pursuit of Happiness: Thoughts and Hopes for Happiness Happens Month
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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Tomorrow (Wednesday) on our blog we have a new post: Thoughts and Hopes for Happiness Happens Month. In the meantime, here's another look at something that makes me happy — chocolate! www.gumonmyshoe.com/2025/09/firs...
First Munchie / Last Rolo: Little (Chocolate) Things Mean a Lot
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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#MondayBlogs Rip It Up and Start Again: A Blogger’s Guide to Disappointment "I think I just decided to scrap the blog post I’ve been writing ..." We've all been there. Something you've been working on doesn't work out. How do you handle it? www.gumonmyshoe.com/2026/07/rip-...
Rip It Up and Start Again: A Blogger’s Guide to Disappointment
No one is too far away to be cared for or to care. Inspiring those who support a friend living with mental illness.
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