I watched anxiously, but she went forth, head held high, ready to go.
Category: Mental Health
For me, for my children, for advocacy
Why do you blog? I have always had a deep need to express myself and my emotions. I hold big big emotions, indescribably intense and passionate outpourings from my soul exude themselves, in often, self destructive ways when I keep them caged too long. As a child I had a wild imagination and penchant for…… Continue reading For me, for my children, for advocacy
Thankfulness
sometimes it involves facing a difficult situation and using a different lens to view it.
Typing through the night
When there is no one else but my own company, everyone else is sound asleep, I am the most alive I have ever been. It’s as if everything is amplified. Sounds that you would never notice in the hustle and bustle of the daytime start to echo around the house and the streets outside. Streetlights…… Continue reading Typing through the night
The power of language in owning our identity.
I was under the complete impression that every woman experienced fantasies,
How did I end up here?
Ultimately my aim in freeing myself of some negative labels and narratives that had defined me and had followed me around for most of my life, was somehow lost amongst the debris.
About me – Updated version
I know I can be hard to decipher, and sometimes my messages and good intentions get lost along the way.
Things Lockdown Taught Me.
2020, a year most of us will remember with dread. A year that stood still, and felt relentless. For myself it became rapidly overwhelming, and increasingly I began to scrutinise everything; how I was performing as a mother, how good of an educator I was, how alone I felt I was becoming and cut off…… Continue reading Things Lockdown Taught Me.