You know you're an adult when you start making healthy choices. But you know you're truly an adult when your healthy choices (drumroll please) pay off. Wahey! (Oh no, does this mean I have to create a Tik-Tok account where I arrogantly impose my healthy choices upon other people so they too can lead a… Continue reading Help, I’m healthy (this week)
Tag: Wellbeing
Honey, I feel sorry for the kids
You know you're an adult when someone asks 'when are you having children?' But you know you're truly an adult when you reply to this question by … signing up to a bunch of Burlesque classes in an act of female rebellion. Me: I'm a dignified member of societyAlso me: How do I join the… Continue reading Honey, I feel sorry for the kids
Pie and Prejudice
You know you're an adult when your friends rely on you for help. But you know you're truly an adult when you wonder what superhero power you'll need to pull out the bag to save the day. Like the time my friend dropped her car keys down a muddy drain near my house on a… Continue reading Pie and Prejudice
BRB, off to build better boundaries
You know you’re an adult when therapy becomes your number one hobby. But you know you’re truly an adult when these therapy sessions unearth generational trauma and a pattern of unhealthy relationships that aren’t doing your life any favours. Me: reckon I have my sh*t together 80% of the time The other 20%: FFS I’m… Continue reading BRB, off to build better boundaries
Welcome to the Circus ♠️❤️
SOUND UP! A visual poem by Viola Fox When she's oh so sad, her circus comes to town, She longs to be a pin-up, she feels like a clown, For the prize of rotten candy, she gambles her worth, In her hall of mirrors, she sees a little girl, Join her on her carousel, the… Continue reading Welcome to the Circus ♠️❤️
Burlesque
It was only the other day when I attended a Burlesque class in the centre of Manchester, I realised that any hobby which doesn't conform to societal standards is suddenly wildly appealing to me. Society: You're 32? Your hobbies are now M&S, complaining loudly in the garden centre, baby showers and repeatedly asking the physio… Continue reading Burlesque
The Confidence Crisis
You know you're in your 30s when you reach new levels of not giving a sh*t. But you know you're truly in your 30s when being unapolotegically yourself is the key to happiness. Turns out, it's not algebra like school taught us it was. Once upon a time (thanks to the Daily Mail), being a… Continue reading The Confidence Crisis
Hello from the other side (of 30)
Thanks to the Quarter Life Crisis, I used to celebrate the weekend with Tequila and Nando's. Now, at 31, I spend Saturdays shopping for vegetables and enjoying (enjoying?!) an early morning swim. Who even am I? Apparently this is what the other side of 29 feels like and, clearly, I'm embracing grown-up-ness for all it… Continue reading Hello from the other side (of 30)
Hitched
Thanks to society, there's a stigma that women need to achieve everything by the age of 30. *Cue universal uproar*. Thanks to this ridiculousness, women have adopted a Pankhurst-inspired energy to embrace life when things don’t work out by this grand old age. Like me, for example who rebelled against this 'achieving everything' malarky by… Continue reading Hitched
Stripped
The other day my partner and I went upstairs for a screw. NO - it's not what you're thinking. It's far sexier than that. I'm referring to assembling flat pack furniture (wahoo!). If a global pandemic wasn't enough of a relationship survival test, my fiancé and I decided to level up our adulting endeavours and… Continue reading Stripped
The Life Crisis 