The Girlfriend Dilemma
Telling this story isn’t easy for me, maybe because it feels like it all happened a lifetime ago. Alas, I will continue with this tale because the person I am...
The Directionless
I just wanted to reach out, I know it’s been a long few months and an even longer Christmas than usual. Just know, there’s not been a day I haven’t...
Simple conversations, go a long way
A few weeks ago I found myself sitting across from her in the canteen of a Mental Health Unit. I observed her restlessness, rythmicatically tapping her hands and feet, eyes...
Moments in time
My literature so far has uncovered the depths of my relationships with people I most value, the lessons I’ve learned and my background growing up within my family. I find...
Remember when…
This wasn’t the way life was supposed to be. As I drive past where you reside on this crisp September evening, I slow down to feel closer to you. I...
Lessons on Friendship: Love, growth and self realisation
Society simplifies complex circumstances and vilifies undeserving people. It’s time we recognise that humans can feel twenty-seven distinct emotions with seven being predominantly the reason for peoples behaviour; happiness, sadness,...
Hyper-vigilant Butterfly
We are quick to acknowledge in the beauty of a butterfly without admitting the changes it has gone through to become beautiful, under appreciating the value of its journey. In...
The quest for emotional safety
Emotional safety is the visceral feeling of being accepted and embraced for who you truly are, what you feel and what you need. Its importance has been truly underestimated in...
The reasons I’m struggling to let this go…
In life people come and people go, it’s just how things are. However, for me with every loss I’ve suffered I have always seen this as a serious failure on...
My five lessons for navigating friendship
Friendship is a theme that has been explored by literature as early as the 4th Century BCE with Aristotle defining friendship in his work Nicomachean Ethics, as a close relationship...