The Eye-Opening Truth About Submitting Your Writing and Accepting Rejection.

I haven’t written a blog post in a long time. Part of that is because I’ve had a lot of changes in my life and within myself that have taken their toll on my energy and mental capacity and another part of that is because I haven’t known what to write. I didn’t feel like […]

Life has been pretty eventful recently…

Life has been pretty eventful recently, there is a lot going on for my family, as a unit and as individuals and sometimes it all piles up and takes all our energy and focus. It dawned on me this evening that not only have I not written a blog post for a little while, I […]

Remove Toxic Positivity – Teach Kids How to Maintain Their Mental Health

None of us could ever have predicted the course of life the last two years. It has been a huge wakeup call for many but sadly, not in the way it should have been. It’s been a time where resilience has been called upon more times than anyone ever imagined, especially for the younger generation […]

‘Love on the Spectrum’ on Netflix is a Mental Health Marvel

A little Insight This week my mental health has taken a turn for the worse. This has been for a lot of different reasons, some of which are: Financial stress Stress over school issues for my youngest son ‘Auntie Flo’ kicked my ass last week and has left me running on empty, no pun intended […]

Only Twelve Weeks and Duck Quacks – My journey to believing I was a writer

Twelve weeks. Eighty-four days. It seems like no time at all and yet in the last twelve weeks I have made more progress in my writing and growth within myself than I have the last thirty-four years. Where it began 2020 was a year that changed a lot of things for everyone and I was […]

Post Pandemic Parenting Anxiety – Yes, it is most definitely a ‘thing’.

Here is what I wanted to be when I was younger: A veterinarian. This dream was dashed during second year of high school and I chose to go to my local vet practice for work experience. I dropped like a sack of potatoes at the sights in the operating theatre. April O’Neil from the original cartoon, […]

Be Your Own Reason To Smile: HOW TO EASE THE HEARTBREAKING TEEN YEARS.

“Always remember, the future comes one day at a time.” Christmas is well and truly over, we’re deep into the 119th day of January and the supermarkets and online stores are now pushing to remind us that Valentines’ Day is coming up. Thanks to my scrolling on Thortful to get my Husband our usual sarcastic and bantering ways […]

Miscarriage: It’s Not Just A Statistic, It’s Me.

Part of the Sisterhood Series. “I will always wonder who you would have been.” Before I begin this topic, I would like to once again state that although this is part of the “Sisterhood Series”, I am more than aware how much this topic can affect everyone involved in pregnancy loss. This is a topic […]

Monday Morning Truth Bombs: Parenting is F***king Hard.

This isn’t my usual style of blog post. Ordinarily, there is more structure to my posts. I like to plan out topics I feel strongly about or that are important to me, things that would allow me to bring fact, humour and experience to them while still being myself. I’ve said before that I knew […]

More Than A Body; Exploring Body Neutrality

Part of the Sisterhood Series “Your body is an instrument, not an ornament.” Ariane Machin Welcome to the first part in the “Sisterhood Series” where I aim to take on some pretty prominent problems, some that are still consider quite taboo, that occur for women on a daily basis in life and explore them. Before […]

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