Today is one of those days, don't you think? Outside is windy and gross. I'm personally not feeling very chipper. I got annoyed today on my lunch break walk around the park because a bunch of other people had the audacity to also be going for a lunch break walk around the park. Do you…
Continue reading ➞ Feeling a bit meh today? Let me pull a magical oracle card to inspire you
So far, 2.5 million people have died from Covid-19 worldwide. Luckily, I'm one of the 64.2 million who made a full recovery. Two things before I tell you about my experience of Covid: 1. Frustratingly, I was unable to get a home test for the entire week I was ill (there weren't any available) so…
I didn't know social anxiety was an actual thing until memes happened and I realised nearly everyone is a chaotic, awkward mess on the inside while portraying an air of easy breezy coolness - with varying degrees of success. I'll start off by saying that social anxiety isn't always funny. It can be crippling; it…
Continue reading ➞ 10 funny things you do when you have social anxiety
Every day I write about working from home (while working from home) for my job as content editor for a company that sells the noble dream of a workplace utopia in which every employee is super active, happy and smashing business targets like excited puppies. Business puppies. Because I write about working from home every…
Continue reading ➞ Here’s the trick to mastering the work from home (WFH) life
I'm a natural scaredy-cat. As a child I lagged behind my big sister and cousins as they tore around the fields and scrambled up trees outside our grandparents' house in France. I wanted to keep up; I wanted to be brave and fearless like them and not care about hurting myself - but even from…
Continue reading ➞ How do you know when fear is ruling your life?
The 5am Club is an exhausting-sounding book I haven't read by a hairless CEO/lawyer named Robin Sharma. The basic premise, as far as I know, is that to not waste your stupid pointless little life you need to get up at 5am every day and immediately spend 20 minutes exercising, 20 minutes planning and 20…
Continue reading ➞ Today I’m an unwilling member of the 5am club
Do you ever wake up in the morning and just think...nope? I don't want to do today. It's like being pelted with tomatoes except the tomatoes are actually all the things you have to do to earn a living and stay alive and all of the many seemingly insurmountable tasks involved with that. A few…
I'm 30 soon. All my late twenties, 30 has loomed like a cloaked figure on a misty street, one gnarled finger beckoning me to some dark and terrible fate involving wrinkles, grey hairs, dead eggs, big bills, bigger hangovers, new fat deposits and a keener sense of my own mortality. Interestingly, the closer I creep…
Continue reading ➞ 10 quickfire reasons why I’m happy to be nearly 30
There's nothing more annoying than some self-professed wellbeing expert telling you how to live your life in the middle of a government-enforced lock-down. Especially when it's threatening your livelihood and riddling you with anxious visions of a summer spent in a darkened room spooning jam into your mouth under your face-mask because all those people…
Continue reading ➞ 5 activities to improve your wellbeing during coronavirus lock-down
Before I flew to Costa Rica to study yoga, before COVID-19 frightened the world into lock-down and everyone suddenly became oddly possessive of toiletries, I visited my favourite book shop (Much Ado Books in Alfriston) and collected a little selection of second-hand titles to take home in return for a donation of peanut butter and…
