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How to deal with a body that’s changed.
So, over the last year or so I’ve noticed a lot of changes in my body. And I don’t mean like, growing hair in strange places. I mean that I’ve gained some weight. Not a huge amount of weight, but...
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My Implanon experience
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that over the last year I’ve had a bit of a struggle with birth control. I came off the pill after more than ten years in an attempt to ease my...
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What is Minimalism?
“Minimalism” is something of a buzzword at the moment. There are swathes of blogs, podcasts and Instagram accounts dedicated to it. In a lot of cases, people use the word “minimalist” to describe a...
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2019: The Year of True Self Care
I thrive on New Year’s Resolutions. I enjoy taking some time to think “What do I want to accomplish this year?”. 2018 was a year of massive change. I moved to a new town and challenged myself both...
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How to read more
Every year “Read More Books” is on my list of new-years resolutions. I glance at my teetering pile of yet-to-be-begun books and think wistfully of the days when I would smash through a book every...
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What a massage taught me about bodily autonomy
A few days ago, I went to a spa that I’d never visited before for a massage. When I arrived, I was given a questionnaire to fill out. Initially I thought it was just the standard spa-intake form,...
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Coping during the pandemic
These past few weeks have felt like a rapidly escalating nightmare. As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, it’s hard not to feel utterly rudderless, unsure of what’s coming next and unable to find a steady...
View ArticleWhat it feels like to be the only child-free friend.
During my twenties, childfree friends vastly outnumbered those with kids. It took me years to get to a stage where my knee-jerk reaction to a friend’s pregnancy announcement stopped being “oh no! What...
View ArticleOvercoming masturbation shame
So many people feel shame around the topic of masturbation. Lots of us grew up in environments where masturbation was never talked about. Maybe you were told that it was something “dirty” that you...
View ArticleMy Depression Checklist
Ten years after I was diagnosed with depression, I finally feel as though I’ve got a handle on it. I’ve accepted the fact that I will never be “cured”. My depression is never going to completely go...
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