Approximate reading time: 10 min Well, I am on holiday which means that I finally get to write the post I have been dying to write for a good couple of weeks now. But before I get into that …I have a slight amendment to make on my last post. It seems in my previous …
Category: Self-love
I still fit
Approximate reading time: 3min Written 18th of July 2021 A weight has been lifted It feels like I can breathe Not gripped in my gut strangled by anxiety I can fuck up I can fail I can get it all wrong That doesn’t mean I should never Ever belong The beauty of what I’m feeling …
The big Heave Ho
Approximate reading time: 11 minutes Written the 14th July 2021 I’m staring at my delivery’s (£250 worth!) In hindsight I wish I’d given shopping a wide berth I treated myself to orthopaedic shoes I’ve needed them for ages They’ve been long overdue I finally had a bonified full-time job And I think I am worth …
Learning to dialogue
Approximate reading time: 11 min I am officially 48! (I am happy to report it is not nearly as scary as I might have imagined!) So, it’s been one of those weeks that started out amazingly (As all birthday weeks should start) and then nose-dived into a pile of inner child madness!!! This is what …
The real perpetrator
Approximate reading time: 5 min Written 5th April 2023 I just finished a live lecture with Gabor It left so much emotion feelings so raw He was working with a woman who was struggling with her past She’d had a sexual encounter that had left a deep mark She said she was drunk but she …
Hand on my heart
Approximate Reading time: 3 min Written the 5 March 2021 I had a CI training session last night I was determined there wouldn’t be a bloody tear in sight Last week’s session I was a weeping, blubbering mess overwhelmed and confused about stupid flatmate stress So, I chose a topic that was safe and mundane …
Knitting words
Approximate reading time: 23 minutes It’s been a good week. I finished my first master’s assignment, so feeling relatively proud of myself:-) Although can I just say how grateful I am that I’m not a full-time academic. I am currently working on my next assignment which is about comparing the symptoms of Developmental Trauma with …
The problem with pink elephants…
Approximate reading time: 8 minutes I’ve been quiet, I know…. 😉 Unfortunately, this week (and next) are my ‘Much-deaded-teaching-in-school days’ where I actually need to do some real work. I’d love to say that it has been a pleasure to be back this week…. but alas I cannot lie. (I am not sure if I …
Flipsides of a coin
(Approximate reading time: 8 min) Dam, this back-blogging is difficult;-) I kind of see why people so often ‘sanitize’ their stories and leave out the yucky, dark parts of it, because when you are feeling happy and sunny….. it’s sometimes the LAST thing you want to go back to. At the moment, I feel a …
My Relationship with Shame
Written 8th of February 2021 Another camp, I’m being sent to stay. For delinquent adults who’ve lost their way. Dad’s there again, waiting in the car. I’m hunting for clothes, near and far. I’m scared, I’m worried, not sure where to begin? What clothes should I take? Will I fit in? Dad is hooting as …