I’m not unaccustomed to loneliness. It feels like it’s been a friend of mine for a while. Social isolation plays a big part in my own personal experience of loneliness. Living alone, being 36, single and childless forces me...
Suicide Prevention #WMHD2019
October 10, 2019
Despite popular belief, I don’t actually share every intricate detail of my life online. I realise my Instagram stories, in particular, might make you think otherwise, but there is a lot that you don’t know about me. It’s World...
So apparently I’m a positivity blogger? That’s a thing, right? Before you start, I know I haven’t done much of the blogging stuff lately but I do have an excuse. I’ve been making money – woo hoo! Slowly, very...
Stop Being an Impostor in Your Own Life
October 31, 2018
Why is it that when things start to go well, my brain kicks in with a bunch of sabotaging thoughts and self-doubts? Well, I learned recently that it happens to a lot of us and what I have been...
So this week’s post is a little different. I’ve written before about the dangers of social media, the comparison and the fake bullshit, but actually, it’s not all bad. For me, Instragram is one of the more positive spaces especially...
When I was 15, my expectation of life was that I would be married with two children by the age of 25. It felt like such a long time away and that type of life and timescale seemed perfectly...
I wrote Do it Anyway to let you know about how I had quit my full time job in the hope of making It’s Character Building a business. I figured that spreading happy vibes had been going so well that maybe...
We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health. Mental health is a scale and we all slide up and down that scale throughout our lives. A study by the NHS Information Centre for...
What are you worth?
December 12, 2017
What are you really worth? Pause for a second and consider that question. Are you worth people’s time? Their attention? Their love? Their respect? Of course we’d all say yes but do we believe it and do we demonstrate...
anxiety, blogging, communication, confidence, lonliness, mentalhealth, relationships, survival, writing
The L Word
September 6, 2017
Right, I’ve got a confession to make, I’ve been a bit naughty. So you know how I’m this self-proclaimed “positivity blogger” and life is fucking amazing and we should all be grateful for every second, even the shit times?...
