Love? Life? Joy!
My body really is my best friend. It helps me automatically calculate the distance of an oncoming car, deals with whatever crap I chuck down my throat, and even once gave me my period early because it knew I was worried. My body really looks after me. You could even say it has my back *giggles at own pun* I... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
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
Soooooo Madonna fell off stage at the Brits last week and I think it’s fair to say the internet CAUGHT FIRE. I mean, I’m not going to lie. It was shocking. But what I found most interesting was the public reaction. There was the jovial tongue in cheek banter you would expect. Too much material for the material girl. Ha!... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Rant Yazmin Joy
The other day I was reminded of a small thing that brought me straight back to my childhood. It was an interest of mine. I wondered why that interest had ever disappeared. I was quite self-assured when I was younger. I was aware that people used to make fun of me for the way I looked or for my unusual... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Becky Solomon From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
Here’s a rather generic question we often encounter that might just hold something deeper. This is a question we’re faced with almost everyday by multiple people in the plethora of shops we visit. ‘Would you like a bag?’ I try to live a life as green as I can (the good kind of green), and one thing I always try... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
The other day I was walking along the street on my way to the station in broad daylight when suddenly, from out of nowhere, this geezer on a bicycle rides INTO ME. Stop right there. Already this statement has flagged two components that, quite frankly, piss me off: rude people and cyclists. Okay it wasn’t quite a head on collision but... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Fire me up baby! Rant Yazmin Joy
We make ourselves feel guilty about all manner of things. Appearance, weight, eating, drinking, exercise, accidents, things we’ve said or done… I feel I have wasted days, months, maybe years of my life on guilt and regret. I tend to beat myself up about all kinds of stuff. I am ambitious and competitive. I hate not being the best I... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
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
I have been trying to demystify the meaning of love for quite a while. I’ve written many-a-blog about the subject, searched history books (okay Wikipedia), women’s mags and Mariah Carey songs on the quest to discover what ‘love’ actually constitutes. The other day I was standing at a bus stop. In the rain. When it hit me: All this time... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Love & Relationships Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
It really concerns me that people around me seem to be constantly dieting and trying to lose weight. Why should I have such an interest in this? Surely people can do what they want to their own body? Of course they can but the problem, for me, is that it seems as if it’s primarily women who are constantly having this... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Fire me up baby! Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement