feminism /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/ noun the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. – This is the Oxford Dictionary definition of feminism. Equality of the sexes. That’s it. – The first time that I can remember being treated differently for being a girl was when I was 8 years old. My…
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Get The Boys A Lift
I recently wrote an article for a local newspaper called The Western Telegraph about Get The Boys A Lift, a not for profit organization based here in Pembrokeshire helping local and national mental health organizations (and if you haven’t already heard of them, where have you been?!) The organization was set up in 2016…
How do you measure success?
It’s funny how the more and more I talk to different people about success, the more I dislike the word and wonder how this “thing” can be categorized at all. Success is COMPLETELY different to each and every one of us. Take a minute to think about it. What comes to mind when you hear…
INDIA: a love/hate story
Ohhhh India, where to even begin? Flying out of Singapore and into New Delhi was a shock in itself. One of the cleanest cities in the world to one of the dirtiest in the space of 5 hours. We braced ourselves to leave the airport and enter the dusty Delhi streets, and we were right…
HA LONG BAY and thoughts about Vietnam…
How can you visit Vietnam and not take a boat trip around Ha Long Bay? There are various arranged trips to and around Ha Long Bay that vary in price but all do essentially the same route and visit the same things. We organised our trip through the hostel we were staying at in Tam…
With The Waves
I remember being told once that emotions and feelings are like waves. They come and go, rush over you and can sometimes feel all consuming – but then they wash away, and you just have to let them. You have to trust the fact that they will wash away just like waves on the shore….
Happiness Is?
In light of World Mental Health Day this week, I wanted to write a little something about this extremely important, although sometimes avoided, topic. Let me begin by saying that mental health is just as important as physical health and it’s about time that we started addressing it as such. Everyone is fighting their own…
a blog about doing 