Love? Life? Joy!
I recently spent a month travelling around India. A month driving 3000 miles on roads that could hardly count as a dirt track, let alone something that was driveable in a vintage car older than my 26 years. But although the roads were life threatening and terrifying, that wasn’t our main concern. Being three white women travelling through the arse-end... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland Lauren Williams
It’s time to be honest, every now and then I compare myself to others. Sometimes it’s other writers who are more successful than me, and other times it’s people who I don’t even know, but it seems like they’re living extraordinary lives. One things for certain, at the end of the thought train, my feelings about myself hit rock bottom. Ever... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
When I was in 6th Form, Miss Cook told her class that she didn’t have a telly. You can imagine the horrified gasps of fifteen Fresh Prince-obsessed girls echoing around the classroom. But this had given one of my schoolmates, Sarah, an idea – as a self-confessed telly addict, she would attempt to give up her favourite shows for two... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
We all speak to ourselves. Whether it’s subconsciously, consciously in our heads, or – like me – you embrace your inner-insanity and you have a tendency to speak to yourself out loud. We tend not to think about how we talk to ourselves, after all maintaining a train of thought in our heads is one of the most natural things... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Wise up!
Autumn 2013 was one of those times when I was filled with the sweet feeling of youthful optimism. I had just moved back from London after business school and was hopeful about the future. There were so many amazing jobs to apply for! New places to explore! Oodles of gratifying social experiences to be had! The world was mine. However, by... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Erin Johnson Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Wise up!
At the weekend, my sisters and I took my brother out clubbing. He’s just turned 18 and wasn’t sure what to expect. Being the youngest and only boy in our household, he’s been mollycoddled a lot by my mum. She kept nagging him to eat before we went out and told him not to drink anything. She seems to have... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Poppy Gillian Wise up!
I sat sulking last Saturday evening feeling like a mix of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch. It was five days before Christmas and my holiday spirit was nowhere to be found. All I could think about was how I was so over December. I felt like crawling above Whoville and yelling ‘bah humbug!’ to all the merrymakers below. So far... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Animal Planet Erin Johnson From the Heart
Birthdays are funny things, aren’t they? We spend the first 21 years of our lives looking forward to it, and then each year after that less and less so. On my fourteenth birthday I got a guinea pig. On my recent twenty-fourth birthday I spent the day discussing sexual health with teenagers in college (I shouted out the word ‘masturbation’... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Poppy Gillian Wise up!
It’s been a tough couple of weeks – I’m incredibly homesick (something my nomadic mindset found very hard to deal with!), the weather has been so vile and I work so many hours that my nature-loving, mountain-climbing self has been bound by four walls for what seems like eternity. There have been tears, lots of tears, and there has been a significant... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Lauren Williams
Just two months ago I had no idea about what to do with my life. I felt as though all that I was ever going do was sit on my tea stained sofa and live happily in my imaginary world, which I was too chicken to make a reality. I became fixated on one thing and became trapped in my narrow... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Sana Sarwar Wise up!