Boys to Men?

We have all heard the sayings ‘don’t be a big girls blouse’, ‘boys don’t cry’, ‘man up’ or something similar every time a boy expresses some kind of emotion or sadness. What happens if we don’t allow our sons to show emotion? how do they end up releasing it? – I for one am extremely...

From societal norms to body positive…

So, I’m on a day off from work. I go into the front room and switch on the TV to put on a rubbish movie (anyone who knows me, knows that I love bad films. Like Channel 5, Christmas films, bad) and an advert comes on. It depicted a group of confident women with beautiful...

Through every dark night comes the brightest day

Sometimes the worst events can show you your greatest blessings

Female Genital Mutilation – the fight to begin the end of FGM

​When it was first suggested to me that I write a blog on female genital mutilation (FGM),I have to be honest I wasn’t sure. I wasn’t sure that I was able to write about something so traumatic, so heart wrenching and full of hurt, I’m used to writing about body positivity, surviving through hardship and...

The importance of meeting people who bring out the best in your and accept you for exactly who you

I never really felt like I quite fitted in, It took me a long time to accept that I was different from most people, that I feel things differently to most people and even longer to accept that that was ok. I was always told that I am too sensitive like it was a bad...

How did the EU Referendum produce so much hate?

This was not meant to be my next post; my next post was all planned out. Then the EU referendum happened and all sorts of craziness broke loose. Before this, I didn’t realise how passionate I could become about politics, how strongly I could believe in any one thing then I remembered the saying ‘if...

The helpers, aways look for the helpers.

My favourite quote is by a man called Fred Rogers it states:     “When I was a boy and I used to see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me “look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster’,...

Red Flags

We all meet people and think we know them.  The truth is, we see what we want to see. If we want to see nothing but goodness in a person, then that's what we ll see. If we want to see nothing but darkness in a person , then that's what we see. I've always...

The light

Everyone has a moment in their lives that has fundamentally changed them, the person they were a few minutes before has gone elsewhere and it has been replaced with a new version of yourself. Some people say it takes a day to change your life, I don't believe that. A day is too long, everything...