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We need to be feminists
When I was a teenage girl, I read almost every copy of my mother’s collection of Georgette Heyer novels. Set mostly in pre-1800 England, the romantic tales included balls, confused women with love in their hearts, and sometimes ruthless men who softened in the end. It...
I’m so sick of this sh!!
TW: discusses sexual assault World, we have a problem and I am sick to death of it. Sexual assault of women and girls is rife in our community and it’s got to stop. Almost every woman I speak to has been sexually assaulted and/or physically abused by a boy or man. The...
Feeling stuck? I can definitely relate!
It all started in the early hours of New Year’s Day when a very tall and very wide bloke (you could say he was built like a brick shi!house) decided he give out free hugs in the nightclub. He said he’d had to bulk up so he could “keep up with the boys back home”. Then...
How did I get here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCY0aeUx-Ns I was thinking today about how quickly life slips through our fingers. One moment we’re in school then suddenly we’re out in the world, studying, getting our first job and doing all the ‘adult things’ we were longing for....
“I love you but I love me more.”
"I love you, but I love me more." I’ve been thinking about this quote all day. It’s from Sex and the City – the iconic series about women, sex and friendship that many of us loved during the 90s. The quote is from Samantha Jones when she realises she has sacrificed...
Loving him is no excuse
I want to talk to you about, what I believe, is one of the greatest and cruellest ironies of our time – that you can love someone with every part of your being but they don’t have to love you back. That’s right, they don’t have to love you back. You can be willing to...
The Fish Rots from the Head
I’ve been struggling to process what’s happening in the world this week. I don’t usually choose to turn off the news. I know a lot of sensitives and empaths choose not to watch any of it because they find it too distressing. And I get it. But I’ve long considered...
What’s behind the door in front of you?
Covid-19 is challenging us to sit still more, question more and want more for ourselves.
Where is your integrity line?
I’ve been thinking about integrity – the line we each have within us that we don’t want to cross. It’s a line that marks who we are; our honourability in a world that often feels increasingly dishonourable. There will be times for all of us when we will be tempted to...
You don’t need permission
The expectations of ourselves and others can be insidious and lurk unidentified until an issue brings them to light. There is always another layer to be removed as we grow and expand.