confidence, impostor, mentalhealth, motivation, wellbeing

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...

authenticity, mentalhealth, writing

You do you boo

July 18, 2018

This week I’m honoured to have a very special guest blogger, my partner-in-happy, Paige Taylor. Paige and I work together on The Happy You Project and she is a yoga instructor and Ayurvedic practitioner. Paige has taught me many...

kindness, mentalhealth, positivity, wellbeing

Pro Kind Project

April 19, 2018

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...

experiences, happiness, life, relationships

Expectation vs Reality

March 28, 2018

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...

happiness, positivity, wellbeing

The Happy You Project

February 21, 2018

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...

communication, mentalhealth, timetotalk

Mental Health: It’s Time to Talk

January 31, 2018

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...

communication, confidence, experiences, love, motivation, relationships, work, worth

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?...

bisexual, education, equality, feminism, gay, gender fluid, human rights, lgbt, love, pansexual, politics, queer, relationships, transgender

Be Bothered

July 27, 2017

The first blog I ever posted was about being bisexual (or more accurately, pan sexual) and since then, I haven’t really addressed the subject of sexuality. Not because I don’t want to, more because it hasn’t been something I’ve...

anger, happiness, mentalhealth, motivation

Anger x Action = Peace

July 2, 2017

I get angry at stuff just like the next person. Mainstream media makes me very angry (even though I try my best to avoid it). Between election bollocks and totally unnecessary and avoidable loss of human life, I’ve been...