Mental Health Awareness Week I’m sure this is the week I’m supposed to be being all positive and promoting Mental Health Awareness, especially as the main focus this year is Body Image. I should be all over this right? But tonight I cried. I cried so hard and blew snot all over Husbandface. Poor Husbandface. […]
Dear Lovelies, (and you are just that … lovely) I’m writing this to you as a teacher, a friend, a body positive activist and as someone who has been a teenager (and a fully grown assed lady) with serious body issues. I want to talk to you about my experience, my history and my present […]
A Love Letter From My Body Dear Gemma, This is your body here. I wanted to write and tell you about my feelings for you. I know we have not had the easiest of relationships, like the time we had gastroenteritis over Christmas or when our back went picking up a tissue from the floor. We […]
Slow Clap For Avon… This week I was saddened and extremely disappointed by Avon Canada’s decision to advertise an anti-cellulite product in a such an insensitive and, quite frankly, ghastly way. My attention was drawn to the Avon issue, by women on social media who, like me, were quite frankly shocked and disgusted. The advert […]
Three days before Christmas… The tree finally went up, after I slept in following the end of a crazy term in my new school. All week I have been faced with a gauntlet of chocolates, mince pies and many other forms of sweet / Christmas based foods. I’m generally a ‘no go’ for sweet foods, but […]
So it’s happening…. Holy shit, today is the last day of my 30s. This could be the worst post I’ve done ….well coz I’m tipsy. It is officially the last night of my 30s and I am rebelling, I am fighting against it. Time is a fucker, but it doesn’t stop. I am going into […]
Weighing in Recently I needed to go to the nurse for my 6 monthly check up. I have been putting this appointment off for a few weeks and had no option but to attend this time. Ever since I made the appointment two weeks ago, I have been full of dread. The dread that I will […]
In the late summer of 2012 I gots me a new job, it was at a tough school in inner London but I was up for the challenge. I needed a new start, a different story, in order to try and move on from the disaster zone that had been the previous academic year. Anyway, […]
A whole year after I had 3 mini epiphanies that set in motion the whole body positivity thing for me, and I’m still trying to find my way. Some days it’s like I’m following a beacon of light and other days it’s like I’ve been given a map with no names on and no idea […]
