As a girl, I knew that anything I did, I'd do well. I'm not trying to boast or blow my own trumpet, but I was always bright, I always got good results, things always went well. Somewhere along the way…
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I've spoken lots in the past about my anxiety, how crippling it was and how hard I worked to overcome it. Looking back, it was there for pretty much all of my adult life, even though at the time I…
I've had small, ongoing blog issues for the last month or so. These rapidly escalated last week from annoying to my blog being entirely broken. Thankfully my hosting support were excellent, but there were a few days when I was…
I seem to have some kind of mental block when it comes to writing or sharing how I'm feeling/what's going on right now. The last couple of weeks I've felt SO overwhelmed and out of my depth. I'm not sure…
Life has a way of running away with us, so much happens on autopilot, our days can become groundhog day like. We get up, eat, work, eat, sleep, repeat. My days can run away with me, so full with kids…
How much of our lives do we live for ourselves? Really for ourselves? Growing up there is so much pressure on us to make others happy - by getting good grades, settling down, a career that others approve of... Then…
The house is quiet, the sun streaming through the windows. I can hear the low hum of traffic outside, a few birds singing in my lilac tree, there is a cat purring nearby. I've been working all morning, pushing through…
Are you looking for a pause? I'm sat drinking a cup of tea, I've just done half an hour of yoga and am taking five minutes to decompress after a busy day. A driving lesson followed by 5 hours of…
It's a quiet Friday morning, I'm not home alone but silence surrounds me. With the boys out of the house so I can work, the house is so much quieter than usual. There was a time when hte quiet unnerved…
I'm sitting writing this in my kitchen. Music playing, the sun shining in through the window. A rare five minutes of peace in the middle of the day. I had to take Kiki for a hospital appointment this morning, just…