Not Wanting To Be Here

I am here, I will always be here … and yet I’m tired, and I do not want to be here. I do not want to be in this place of sadness and failure. I no longer wish to reside in the land of lack and loss. I want to be … elsewhere, anywhere but here. In the...

Who Am I? Who Will I Become?

Set up by Sophie over at One Unique, Huddle and Cuddle is a campaign to help raise awareness of mental health issues buy using the means of social media. Influencers have teamed up to help this campaign and to spread the word, allowing people to never feel alone by...

Goodbye Darkness, My Old Friend

A small corner of her brain mourned. Recalled the comfort of her lost friend’s arms around her, the safe feeling of knowing they were there and there for her alone. Except they weren’t. They were there for themselves, insinuating bonds of fear and doubt,...

Push Me Pull Me

Self-care can be a funny beast. We are told, we know deep inside, that we have to practise self care in order to be our best for the world – put your own oxygen mask on first. Yet often I wonder how much of what I do is self care and how much is selfish. For...

Privacy is a dying construct

So many biz friends on Facebook wonder why I don’t accept them as friends on my personal profile. They think I am hiding things, have a secret double life, frack knows what else they’re thinking. Truthfully – I don’t know them. Sure I know they...