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How To Get Off The Dieting Roller Coaster Forever
Shari Ware spent almost her entire life morbidly obese. By the time she left High School, she weighed 100kgs. At her maximum weight, she was over 180 kgs (she never had the courage to find …
How To Use Yoga To Help Relieve Menopause Symptoms
Amrit Kendrick started yoga when she was 30 to help her to chill out a bit and maybe get fitter. She got the yoga bug, learning more and more about the discipline, becoming a teacher …
How To Do Online Dating (Successfully!) In Your 40’s
“YOU MUST BE MENTAL!” That was my response when my friend, Kylie Mitchell, told me that she was going to start online dating. I mean, dating is an interesting and challenging event at the best …
The Pain And Impact of Early Onset Menopause
Menopause is an interesting enough, never mind life-changing, experience at the best of times, but experiencing menopause when you’re in your 30’s? In this conversation, I talk to Gayle Palmer, Osteopath, who found herself embroiled …
Not Fit For Human Consumption
It’s interesting when you try to find out things about Menopause, because all of the information is either really vague or really generic: you may experience this, you might find that, this other thing could …
Why You Need To Jingle Your Spoons
“You just need to jingle your spoons, Mum.” This was Ryan’s response when I told him that I’d got off a phone call with a friend and felt exhausted. It turns out that there is …
How This Woman Got Out Of Her Wheelchair Permanently
What kind of thing would make someone who’d spent several years in a wheelchair, just get up out of it and never sit in it again? That was the question that made Elizabeth Anne Walker …
Are You A Pretty Awesome Person?
I had the comment from my friend about how she believed that she was an amazing person (read about it here) on my mind when I spoke to my mentor, Karly Nimmo, yesterday. We had …
I’m A Pretty Amazing Person
These are my musings, right? I could turn this into a long-winded lecture about how we could all start accepting ourselves as who we are, blah blah. I’m not gonna. Partly because I don’t like …
Spreading The Darkness
GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR A**E AND STOP SHOWERING YOUR CRAP ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA This pandemic and the whole stay-at-home thing has brought out some hitherto hidden talents in some people. People that …
The Guilt and Grief of Midlife
I don’t know about you, but by the time I reached my fifties, I was an absolute MASTER at feeling guilty and being sad about what I’d lost and would never have again (think: cuddles …
How To Embrace Your Strengths
I learned something very interesting this morning: I’ve lived my entire life being afraid the whole time (with the occasional foray into outright terror).I know we’re all scared a lot of the time, but this …
Weirdly, The Word For 2020 is… Wonderful Connections
At the start of the year, if I’d been thinking about a word that was going to describe my experience in the coming year… …and to be honest, I didn’t do that because I didn’t …
Are women really still fighting for equality?
I did a degree in construction back in the 80’s. I was one of 6 women in the UK doing my job when I graduated, I worked on building sites for 5 years and I …
The Subtle Ways Women Are Silenced
I’ve never really experienced sex discrimination or gender inequality. At least, I didn’t think I had. Till I read a book and started doing some research and then I realised just how much of a …
How Forceps Mess Up Your Body
I had no idea that a forceps delivery would have any impact on me. I was certainly upset by the bruises on my baby’s face but I honestly thought that an “assisted” birth was way …
Depression, Sleep, and the Need to be Social
Podcast Episode 9 It’s well known that insomnia can lead to depression and anxiety and vice versa, but there are a few things about sleep that I’ve discovered recently, along with the impact that social …
Persistent Pain: A Woman’s Disease
Podcast Episode 7 Persistent and chronic pain is something that a large number of women live with from a variety of causes: migraines, fibromyalgia (Lady Gaga is a sufferer), cancer, arthritis, or, in my case, …
Woop Woop!
“Hmm, where’s Karen got to? I haven’t heard or seen her online for months. Maybe she’s given up on the whole blogging thing?” I’m sure HEAPS of people have been saying EXACTLY that, I’m sure …
The Pain And Stress Of Getting Cancer… Twice…
In this episode, I talk to Kylie Mitchell, House Designer, business owner, and all-round awesome person about how she dealt with a brain tumour, a marriage break up, becoming a grandmother before the age of …
If Life Goes Smoothly For Too Long, You’re Probably Dead
In this inaugural episode of Menopause, Marriage and Motherhood, I talk about some of the ups and downs of life. I have to say, this was by far the most difficult and confronting episode to …
NO VEGAN DIET FOR ME
I DO NOT THINK THAT THE WORLD SHOULD CHANGE ITS DIET TO A VEGAN ONE. There. I’ve said it. I’ve come out of the meat eating closet. Anyone who wants to unfriend or unfollow me …
35 Fabulous things to do on a No Spend Weekend
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10 THINGS TO DO AT THE START OF EACH MONTH TO BE SUPER FOCUSED AND CLEAR
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Kiss and Makeup
I’m going out to a special event tonight: my friend’s 40th birthday bash. She’s a high profile online entrepreneur who likes to dress in designer gears and who spends a fortune on makeup at Chanel. …
Easily Budget Your Money
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Be Money Smart
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Debit & Credit
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