The embarrassed, self-deprecating Brit in me does not want to write this post. The woman who's fed up with hating her own body because it doesn't subscribe in every way to the standard model of beauty, does. I recently wrote about how I'm making a real effort to accept my body after a lifetime of…
Continue reading ➞ Every time I don’t like how I look, I strike a pose and take a photo
Throughout this blog's lifetime I've tried several different diets with a mission to excavate through my belly flab and unearth a long-hidden abdominal muscle or two. Why???? Because I'm vulnerable to the images of beauty that bombard women. As free-thinking, open-minded and decently-read as I like to think I am, I tapped into those insideous…
Continue reading ➞ How I’m learning to accept my body, flabby bits and all
Concerned about time moving too quickly in these strange, repetitive Covid times? Try not eating for 5 days. Without the usual anchor points of breakfast, lunch and dinner, and with a tummy constantly whining for food that never comes, seconds ooze out of the day in super slow motion. This morning, on the final day…
Continue reading ➞ It’s over! Day 5 of my juice fast – thoughts and feelings
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
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?
I've never called my journal a journal, it's always been a diary to me - but somehow journal sounds more grown up and less like what a 12-year-old girl uses to doodle hearts and the names of her crushes in. Was that imagery a bit sexist? I definitely used to doodle hearts in my diary…
Continue reading ➞ Drop everything you’re doing and write a journal entry now
Spoiler alert: I can't answer this question. Emotional healing is a personal, complex, all-consuming and highly uncomfortable experience that's unique to everyone. Healing sounds like it should be pleasant and soothing because it means getting better. It makes me think of soft pink lighting, panpipe music and someone in an apron dabbing me gently with…
Continue reading ➞ How to heal a lifetime of self-image issues
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…
We all know instinctively that nature does something good to our souls. After all - we're animals: we are nature. But being the clever monkeys that we are, we realised at some point a few thousand years ago that building walls around ourselves kept us pleasantly distanced from things like sharp-toothed animals and weather. And…
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
