It seems that almost everyone is ill right now. You may think I'm being dramatic but seriously, look around and you will see quite literally every single person equipped with a trusty tissue in their hand, sporting the seasons finest red nose and puffy eyes combo! I'm ill...again! I was poorly during the Christmas holidays, then again when I got back to uni, I...
Even just by walking 5 minutes down the street, you can pass hundreds of people, all strangers, all unknown, all with their own lives. You have no idea of any of their stories or what's going on in their lives. During my abusive relationship, when no one knew, I was desperate for help. I remember sitting on the bus, on the metro, in...
My boyfriend and I recently split up after being with each other for almost 3 years. I barely remember my life before him. I spent every minute of every day with him, ultimately we were so in love, there were very big problems too, he was abusive to me but stupidly and accidentally I was in love with him. I was always fiercely...
January can be a bit of a depressing month, Christmas is over, gone is the festive, magical atmosphere that kept us going throughout December...and for a lot of people, November too! Everyone seems to be poor due to all that festive indulgence and the weather just gets colder by the day! But with January, comes a New Year, new opportunities, new people, new...
Social media is filled with perfect, cropped, airbrushed, filtered versions of snippets of our lives, made to look natural when in reality it's anything but. A picture of the Christmas dinner table laden with festive food and crackers hides the hungry faces ravenous to tuck in, hungrily waiting for the perfect insta-worthy pic to be captured before life can resume again. Something which...
It's New Years Eve and Facebook and Instagram seem to be full of depressive quotes telling me that you're a failure if you're single and implying that it's embarrassing if you're going into the New Year without a significant other.
"I never thought it would happen to me." The words of everyone who has ever had something bad happen to them and the words which I've found myself saying almost everyday after admitting what has been happening in my life for the best part of three years. I've seen countless adverts on TV about domestic violence, urging people to get help. I halfheartedly...