What Does Your Mental Health Look Like?

I think that a lot of people are still tip toeing around mental health, viewing it as a throw away term and not as something we all live with. Using it for those who are obviously sick, the people who are struggling, the people we want to put in a corner and say 'oh them?…

I’ve Been Bad

Are the phrases and wording we use around nutrition impacting our relationship with food? Junk, rubbish, bad 'I've been eating so badly over the last few days.' 'This is so naughty of me.' 'Junk food.' We have created this constant dialogue surrounding our food choices. Enforcing the idea that certain foods are bad/rubbish and that…

Summer – It’s More Than A Body

Summer It's morning sunshine streaming through the window as you enjoy your first sips of coffee. It's ice cream dripping down the cone and coating your fingers. It's Sweltering evenings tangled in the sheets. It's yummy smells of barbecues in back gardens and warm doughnuts at the fun fair. It's lazy afternoons by the beach…

Anger, Stress and All The Rest

We've all been there, you know? That place. Maybe your kids have been acting up non stop. Maybe relationships are strained. Maybe you're surrounded by idiots at work and feel like you're the only one putting any effort in. Problems with finances, problems with body image, problems with health, problems with, well, anything really. You…

Am I Too Much?

I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like I'm too much. I feel that I love too much and care too greatly, pouring my energy into people, just for it to be discarded like an old pair of pants. I'm not one for small talk. I want to dance in your hopes and…

Happy New Year?

I've been wanting to write and attempting to write for the last few weeks with one topic in mind, but every time I even think about putting pen to paper all I can focus on is how angry I am. Angry about the New Year, angry towards diet culture, angry towards the people and companies…

Christmas Guilt

Tree up (tick) Christmas cake made (tick) Festive songs on shuffle (tick) Elf retrieved from the back of the DVD cabinet (tick) People experiencing guilt due to food consumption  (tick... unfortunately) It's no secret that I adore this time of year; quiet dog walks early in the morning, as the sun is peeking over the…

Living With PCOS and Recovering From Bulimia

I was unsure how to approach this post, should I be witty? Use humour? Blast out facts and figures? After a few attempts and a lot of paper scribbled on, to then be scrunched up and binned - I've opted for openness and honesty. This blog has included a lot of my recovery stories. Talking…

‘And What Is It That You Do?’

'And what is it that you do?' A conversation starter that is favoured among guests at parties and gatherings. 'Oh I'm just a lifeguard.' My mouth puts the words together and blurts them into the atmosphere before my brain can intervene, hastily followed by, 'But I teach fitness classes as well.' Attempting to reassure these…

I Didn’t Sign Up For This

I can't be the only 20 something who has no idea how to manoeuvre through life as all of these grown up things are thrown our way once we've progressed through schools and colleges and universities. My mind is continuously boggled by taxes, pension, self assessments, getting in trouble with the tax man/woman, buying into…