Over the last couple of months I’ve been through a fair bit of change in life. In retrospect it’s all been for the better – even the stuff t

Over the last few weeks I’ve been sharing with you some thoughts on each “part” of the work that I do. And since we’ve talked about the importance of making peace with your past, I figured it was time to talk about why and how I reckon we’re all responsible for creating our own happy ever afters. So often I hear people – especially women – say that they “need” someone else in order to be happy and to do all the things they long for. OK first up, no. It is absolutely amazing t

Eleanor Roosevelt seems to have become my source of wisdom recently. It’s unintentional but her words just keep popping up and are so damned poignant. Like this quote for example. On my desk is a wisdom 365 calendar and today’s page contained these wonderful words. Thought provoking at the best of times, but given that yesterday was a day spent mourning the tragic and violent killing of over 20 people, and injury of many more in the Manchester bombing, it seemed especially po

Thanks to my week off last week I’m a little bit behind the curve at the moment but still, as a woman and someone devoted to helping other women love themselves, this is an important day to focus on! It’s about standing up and starting a conversation around women’s rights and taking a stand to say that until every single woman in the world is being treated fairly, things still aren’t good enough. Think about it; even now in my very civilised life in a very democratic society

Happy Valentine’s Day! Let me start this post by saying that you are amazing. And that just in case no one else has told you already today I, for one, love you. If you’re not coupled up right now then of course you’ll know that today is a commercialised circus promoted by the greetings card and floristry industries to make loved up people feel they must spend money and single people feel, well, crappy. But not anymore. Nope. For this Valentine’s Day I’m encouraging you to tak

I’m just back from the hen weekend of one of my best friends in the world. It was a fab weekend with some amazing ladies, in preparation for what I know will be a beautiful day in less than three weeks. How do I know it will be a beautiful day? Because my friend is marrying “the one”. I know, I know, a lot of people out there find the idea that there is one perfect person out there for all of us completely ridiculous. They turn their nose up at the very idea as the stuff of D

"I don’t know how it is you are so familiar to me – or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before – in another time, a different place – some other existence." - Lang Leav You know, I LOVE Lang Leav’s writing. I stumbled across her on Pinterest a while ago and her words are just stunning… they

Earlier this week a friend of mine posted on Facebook that it “may be oversharing but I hate periods!” I loved the status and I love her but a (jokey and well meaning) reply that yes it was oversharing sort of boiled my blood, if you'll pardon the pun. Around half of the world’s human population will bleed at some point in their lives, yet we still talk about periods in hushed tones as though they’re something to be ashamed of. I’ll hold my hands up and say that not long ago

How many times so far this week have you put someone else’s happiness in front of yours? It’s something we all do; take care of other people to the detriment of ourselves and our own well being, but why? I know, I know, sometimes needs must. After all you can’t leave the kids unfed or the dog unwalked, and you can’t always leave the work undone. But what about aside from that? How often do you run at 100mph all day looking after things for everyone else, so that by the time y

In case I hadn’t already noticed it there are often plenty of people keen to point out to me the fact that, at 32, I haven’t yet had children so am not a mother. The first part of that is absolutely true of course; at this point in time I have no children of my own having so far not found the right person to bring children into the world with. The second part, however, I would disagree with… You see, at 4.30am I was on my hands and knees clearing up sick and other things I wo

Today is my mum's birthday. It's a special one, although I don't think I'm allowed to say which one. But on a blog where I regularly talk about the things that have inspired me, I thought that it was a good place to tell her – and the world – just how amazing she is. To be honest my mum probably won't like this too much. She's not really a fan of being the centre of attention, to the point that after her last big birthday when I organised a surprise meal with all of the famil