The Eye-Opening Truth About Submitting Your Writing and Accepting Rejection.

I haven’t written a blog post in a long time. Part of that is because I’ve had a lot of changes in my life and within myself that have taken their toll on my energy and mental capacity and another part of that is because I haven’t known what to write. I didn’t feel like […]

Life has been pretty eventful recently…

Life has been pretty eventful recently, there is a lot going on for my family, as a unit and as individuals and sometimes it all piles up and takes all our energy and focus. It dawned on me this evening that not only have I not written a blog post for a little while, I […]

“One Good Thing” – The Wordy Indulgent Dopamine Hit that Just Keeps Giving

When life falls apart all you need is…One Good Thing” This summer I decided to take some time off to re-evaluate my focus points in writing and business, to spend quality time with my boys while they were off for summer and to take some much-needed downtime to get through my ‘To Be Read’ pile. Life doesn’t […]

‘Love on the Spectrum’ on Netflix is a Mental Health Marvel

A little Insight This week my mental health has taken a turn for the worse. This has been for a lot of different reasons, some of which are: Financial stress Stress over school issues for my youngest son ‘Auntie Flo’ kicked my ass last week and has left me running on empty, no pun intended […]

Be Your Own Reason To Smile: HOW TO EASE THE HEARTBREAKING TEEN YEARS.

“Always remember, the future comes one day at a time.” Christmas is well and truly over, we’re deep into the 119th day of January and the supermarkets and online stores are now pushing to remind us that Valentines’ Day is coming up. Thanks to my scrolling on Thortful to get my Husband our usual sarcastic and bantering ways […]

Monday Morning Truth Bombs: Parenting is F***king Hard.

This isn’t my usual style of blog post. Ordinarily, there is more structure to my posts. I like to plan out topics I feel strongly about or that are important to me, things that would allow me to bring fact, humour and experience to them while still being myself. I’ve said before that I knew […]

More Than A Body; Exploring Body Neutrality

Part of the Sisterhood Series “Your body is an instrument, not an ornament.” Ariane Machin Welcome to the first part in the “Sisterhood Series” where I aim to take on some pretty prominent problems, some that are still consider quite taboo, that occur for women on a daily basis in life and explore them. Before […]

Don’t Let Your Mind Bully Your Body

“Guilt and stress do more damage to your body than a slice of chocolate cake ever will…” May is Mental Health Month and this is my fourth post in this series regarding all different aspects of mental health. We all have mental health to take care of and there are so many things can affect […]

Let’s Take A Moment for Resilience

We fall, we break and we fail. But then we rise, we heal and we overcome The last 15 months has been a true test for everyone’s mental health, courage and resilience. There are people who have never suffered from any mental health problems who all of a sudden, have developed severe anxiety, which has […]

We are not who people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be.

Gender is given too much importance. We should be able to see humans just as humans. When I started the idea for this blog, I knew there would be times where I’d need to invite strangers into my personal life. Initially, this scared me because I’ve been judged for things out of my control since […]

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