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From a young age, I’ve loved putting pen to paper. As a child, I kept a diary where I recorded the events that mattered to me. My fondness for notebooks, lists, and stationery has never waned, and writing has always been a cherished part of my life. 

This love for writing continued into my adult life. Writing is cathartic for me. When you write honestly and unreservedly, not only about the events in your life but also about your feelings, you unburden yourself of emotions that bog you down and keep you from accomplishing what you want to accomplish or of being the sort of person you’d really like to be….Enjoy!

  • Soft Summer Colour Palette: A Personal Transformation

    Soft Summer Colour Palette: A Personal Transformation

    I recently had my colour analysis done by a friend, and it’s told me so much about my aesthetic appearance, and why certain colours have never quite worked on me. Why some makeup shades drain me completely, or make me look like a child who’s been left alone with a makeup bag and far too…

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  • First Week Post Op Colpoperineorrhaphy Done: Feeling More Like Me, Still Very Much Healing

    First Week Post Op Colpoperineorrhaphy Done: Feeling More Like Me, Still Very Much Healing

    One week post-op. That feels like a milestone worth marking. I’m definitely feeling more like myself again, clearer in the head, more present, more me. But I’m also very aware that there is still a lot of healing going on down there. Healing you can’t rush, see, or negotiate with; only respect. The bleeding has…

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  • National HIV Testing Week 2026

    National HIV Testing Week 2026

    Why I Ordered a Free HIV Test From The Terrence Higgins Trust at 54, and Why You Might Want To As Well. I want to talk about something many of us don’t often say out loud, especially those of us who are heterosexual, middle-aged, and assumed to be “low risk”. But I have lived a…

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  • Book Review: Living Well With Chronic Illness by Grace Quantock

    Book Review: Living Well With Chronic Illness by Grace Quantock

    As someone who has lived with chronic illness for a large percentage of my adult life, with the “buckaroo moment” of being diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2013, I approached Living Well With Chronic Illness with both cautious hope and hard-earned scepticism. What I found in Grace Quantock’s book isn’t a miracle cure, and it doesn’t…

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  • No-Bake Biscoff Cheesecake for Morning Treats

    No-Bake Biscoff Cheesecake for Morning Treats

    You must have seen online that Biscoff Cheesecake thing that has gone viral, well, I have been enjoying it each morning. It has given me such a lovely treat to look forward to each morning, and I have tweaked it to make it more fibre-dense for my bowel needs. Now, before I start, if anyone…

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