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...
Getting to Know Myself
Growing up my mother always described me as independent and determined. She has previously recited tales of me disappearing in the evenings, taking myself off to bed when I was...
Unmasking Autumn
As soon as Autumn, my baby sister, was born I was enriched with an overwhelming need to protect. She was a perfect tiny little doll, with dark hair, dark eyes...
An Introduction to Little Pieces of Literature
As soon as I was able to read, it became my safe space. I enjoyed the ways in which authors used writing to capture a moment, encompass character development and...