Before I met my boyfriend of almost three years, I always assumed that finding someone to love was the hard part and staying in love was the easy part. How wrong I was! I learnt very quickly that relationships require an enormous amount of work and dedication. You have to be willing to work […]
Ever looked in the mirror and wished you could change something, anything, everything about the reflection looking back at you? Maybe you wish you were more toned or slimmer or taller or curvier or had bigger boobs or a smaller bum. Not being 100% satisfied with your body has to be a pretty universal […]
Accepting yourself completely for who you are, flaws and all, has to be among the hardest things to achieve. Why? Because I’m sure we all have things we’d like to change about ourselves. Maybe we want to be prettier, or more confident, or smarter, or thinner, or more successful. We look at people who […]
There’s a great saying I heard from someone (and after a bit of Googling all I could find is that it comes from a magazine article published many years ago) that there are two types of people in the world: radiators and drains. Radiators, are people who are up for everything and approach life […]
This book is the perfect field guide for anyone who wants to quieten the incessant noise in their mind, surrender to the flow of life, and become more present and mindful as they go about each day. Ultimately, this book contains one very important message: to live in the present moment. Tolle explains that for […]
This blog post was inspired by the unfortunate news that my sister recently broke two bones in her foot while at university. Although not technically ill, she lacks mobility, is forced to spend more time indoors and can no longer do lots of the things she usually enjoys (some of the main downsides of being […]
For one single area of our lives, work takes up the majority of our waking hours. Hopefully you’ll be able to find a career that ticks the most boxes, one that inspires you to get up every morning, fulfills you during the day, and makes you feel good at the end. However, in the words […]
Unless you have a household of servants tending to your every need, the chances are that chores will be a part of your life. Now that I’ve left university and am living with my boyfriend in our very own flat, I guess I’m officially an adult. And I’ve realized, with some dismay, that adult life […]
I’ve been with my boyfriend now for just over two and a half years and during that time, I like to think that we’ve discovered some of the secrets to developing healthy communication in a relationship. A lot of our techniques were developed through trial and error, the rest were inspired by other couples we […]
Every now and again I find that I’m left with a day entirely to myself. Sometimes it’s intentional, and other times it’s because everyone else has plans, but whatever the reason, I’ve been learning to make the best of what my good friend Helen termed ‘me, myself, and I’ time. For her, ‘me, myself and […]
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