As lock-down rumours swirled in the office and shoppers began to stockpile Pasta ’N’ Sauce packets like it was freshers’ week again, I started to ponder over the inevitable self-isolation and what that would look like for me as a twenty-something year old single, self-employed woman living by herself. I’m no stranger to sitting with my own company, having combatted…
Scrolling through my Insta feed, conscious that my weekly screentime has soared since the start of lockdown but still wanting to nose on how everyone’s been adapting, I saw a post by @ThereSheGlowsBlog_ that said “Pretty is not the rent you pay to exist in this world as a woman” and it knocked me sideways. It felt like an epiphany.…
By tapping into positive patterns that work for others, can help you achieve your goals. Like many during this lockdown period, we have been educating ourselves with online seminars and encouraging our creativity, to keep our minds ticking over and becoming our better selves. I have noticed a trend in the things mentioned, and have compiled a list of seven…
We will certainly all look back in years to come and remember the year 2020! The year in which our worlds were spun upside down and the word ‘unprecedented’ got flung around more than roger Federer’s tennis racket. For me as a business owner these past few weeks have certainly been a rollercoaster ride, with 6 staff on payroll and…
I would claim that I binged on Love Is Blind because of the Coronavirus lockdown, but if I’m being completely honest, I’ve never needed a global pandemic as an excuse to consume episode after worthless episode of whatever candyfloss viewing Netflix has churned out. I resisted watching the show for all of three days, but once my timeline was flooded…
People keep saying things to me like ‘can’t wait to go out when is over’ as if it’s expected that we are all super excited about socialising again. We must surely all be desperate to get to that overcrowded bar with friends we’ve been avoiding for ages? No, I’m kidding - normalcy is an exciting prospect, but it seems we’re…
Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant-past, print magazines were thriving in the media industry and were the be-all and end-all of everything current in the world. When I was about 12, I used to read Sneak obsessively, it was the pinnacle of print media for me and social media wasn't a major phenomenon like it is today. I found…
There’s been an eerie stillness, a timeless nudge somewhat, that has prompted me to write once more. Usually. I am focused on who I am writing to, who I am writing as, and in what person; very much like I do when I give my talks on focusing our lens, our vision, on a story, as though we’re looking through a metaphorical…
People of the UK, your country needs you. Your country needs your help. Never before, in most of your lives, has your country required so much of you. You see, we are at war. The enemy is invisible. The enemy is unlike any other we have seen before so we don't know which weapons we can use to defeat it.…
“Only the old and weak will be affected” “Only a tiny percent of the population will die from it” “Vulnerable and old can just stay in, we can carry on going out” “It won’t affect me” “But I need to work to pay the bills” Just a small selection of things I have read on social media today alone. As…