Last year (2014) I revealed myself to the world. Sharing my most shaded secret with Grazia magazine, I confessed probably the biggest social taboo of today: I had no friends. Having struggled half my life with post traumatic stress following an assault at 16, I’d reached the point […]
Christmas comes but once a year – and thank heavens for that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a festive fanatic! I love all the commercialism and ceremony that Christmas is; the music (I play too early), the baking (even earlier) and the mesmeric delight in driving […]
To mark International Fibromyalgia & M.E Awareness Day I decided to write about chronic pain and learning how to live with it in the best way possible. Pain and fatigue are draining conditions to live with on a long term basis, and because it leads […]
Those of you more familiar with me will know that I have a chronic pain condition called Fibromyalgia, and this May 12th is the official International Fibromyalgia & M.E Awareness Day. Fibromyalgia and M.E (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) are very similar in their symptoms and daily effect on […]
I’m going to be honest with you: I’m not always the smiling the face you see in my pictures. In fact, many days it’s such an effort being that person that it affects everything I do, right down to creating blog posts. Sometimes it’s painful […]
