Love? Life? Joy!
My word, I am only 24 and last month I was getting the ‘So, is there anyone special in your life?’ talk from certain members of my family. I guess it doesn’t help that my older sister is getting married. My answer was quite simply and honestly: ‘There’s nobody you need to know about, and it will be a long... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Becky Solomon From the Heart Love & Relationships
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
On a chilly, starry Friday night in December, three twenty-something girls stepped out of the carnage of Oxford street and into Duke Street’s Wagamama. It had been a long time since my besties and I had kicked back to contemplate life at our local Wagas, but here we were, finally, together again. Huzzaahh! As we slurped on our Clean Green... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Yazmin Joy
So the other day I woke up hungover to shit and barely remembering my walk home. I called my friend to reminisce about last night’s frolicking and he kindly informed me of a dramatic monologue I’d indulged in. ‘You told me all about your dead cat.’ He said, ‘You even cried at one point!’ ‘Oh dear Lord.’ Thought I, as the... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Animal Planet Beth Teverson From the Heart
Hello, my name is Rhian – and I love One Direction. Okay, I’ll be honest with you from the start. This is not entirely about One Direction (if it was, this would be a dissertation).This is actually about accepting yourself, not bringing each other down, and the power of young girls. My first impression of One Direction is hardly worth... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Fire me up baby! From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
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
Arrrgghhh! Why am I so bloody awkward?!?! I am, unfortunately, one of those people who embarrasses easily. This has come from my younger years, those who have ever been made fun of when you were younger will know that feeling of shame – and it stays with you forever. The dread, the panic and the sweat come flooding back every... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Becky Solomon From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
There will always be someone ahead of you; there will always be someone behind you. That will always be the case. But right here, right now: this is where you are. And it might not be exactly where you want it to be, but it just is what it is. We have to deal with it, and learn to love... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Yazmin Joy
Last week, at around 7pm, one of my most fears came true. I was cycling home, it was dark and raining hard. I managed to slip on the road and before I knew it I was hurtling through the air and into a fence. It was one of those moments where time seems to slow and yet you have no... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Beth Teverson From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Wise up!
Foreigners often get a bad wrap, their reputation clouded by local prejudices and tainted by past errors of other foreigners. Wherever they are, wherever they’re from, whatever they look like, the odd ones out will always get extra attention. Sometimes – particularly when you’re very new to this place – that attention can be daunting and frustrating. Arriving somewhere entirely different... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement