Spend enough time online and you'll hear the same refrain repeated as though it's an unquestionable gospel: women are at their most desirable in their twenties. The implication is rarely subtle. After that, a countdown begins. Every birthday becomes another step away from relevance. Every laughter line becomes evidence of decline. Every passing year is framed as another reason to compete with younger women who simply happened to be born later.
Written for others who also didn't get their lives back. There was a time I felt unstoppable. Not in a loud way. Not in a superhero way. Just quietly certain. Certain that if I worked hard enough, stayed kind enough, tried long enough, life would open. I’d travel. Build my business. Fall in love. Create … Continue reading How to Love the Limited Version of Yourself ❤️🩹
Milestone moments navigate us. We don't know what matters to us until experiences come along that offer us a way to get to one of them. Perhaps you're in a pursuit of knowledge, so want to achieve goals in the shape of qualifications and a career to match. Or maybe a family is something you're … Continue reading Choose Yourself.
One of the most painful emotions a human can undergo is not knowing whether to have hope or to simply give up. How long do you hold on for? What action(s) are specifically needed in order to have faith that things will "get better"? And...what if they don't last? Or worse, don't happen. Because when … Continue reading To Hope or Not to Hope? That is the Question ❔️
Isn't it ironic that, when we want to find ourselves, we choose to get lost in something - books, music, film, art, nature. There's something intrinsically valuable about letting go of everything inside just to see if you can trace what it is you lost along the way, using these endeavours like a compass. They … Continue reading How Societal Ideals Affect our Personal Realities 🗣
The internet is a cesspit of opinions, saturating the online world with contrasting views delineated as truths. To say things get confusing is an understatement. From the moment you have a burning personal question you desperately want to ask but aren't ready to share with your loved ones, you load up a tab, secretly enter … Continue reading Self-Love Begins with Acceptance 🫶
“When did emotions get this complicated?" "When did my needs from a relationship end up feeling this demanding?" "How can I get back to the person I used to be…before?" "What if I am seeing things as they really are, but I’m unable to action the correct response because I fear my judgement is skewed?” … Continue reading Living with PTSD in a Relationship ❤️🩹
Getting everything you want sounds great, right? Well-paying job, perfect family, beautiful big house, nice holidays etc. We can all agree that those things are something us western folk all align with so-called "happiness". After all, if things do get rough from time to time, it's probably nicer to mope in a fancy car than … Continue reading This is Why You Should Seek Wholeness Over Happiness 🙏
Sometimes, being strong looks like this: Other times, though, it looks like this: But we seem to forget that survival is a special type of strength, especially in the face of adversity. Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” and I've never understood … Continue reading This is True Strength 💪
Millions of us watch in awe at the satisfaction of domino displays falling in perfect symmetry, we hit "like" on videos showcasing flawless make-up styles and colourful outfit combinations. We collectively admire a painting or the view from a landscaped vista, and we fawn over faces. We, as a population, are obsessed with looking and … Continue reading “Who is the Fairest of them All?” A Diverse Discussion about Beauty🪞
Sacha Kurucz 