This week it was the 20th Anniversary of Bridget Jones’s Diary and we need to set the record straight: Bridget Jones was never fat, she was insecure about her body. The film struck a chord with women around the world from Bridget’s big pants to her obsession with bettering herself, but it hasn’t aged well. Society (mainly her mother) told […]
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Burnout is one of those buzz words that’s meaning has been watered down as we’ve used it so much during the pandemic. But we haven’t had our typical coping mechanisms; the spontaneous drinks or meals after work or weekends away to break up the day to day at work, so burnout is inevitable as the […]
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Every self-help book and good friend will tell to just be yourself when you’re nervous about a new situation or meeting someone new. They know that people will want to see and be interested in the person you really are, the one they know and love. And as much as that is heart-warming and top-notch […]
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I don’t know if it’s the super strength or the patriarchal ideals of masculinity, but you never see superheroes go to therapy. We’re always taught that it’s not in their nature; they’re super humans with super strength, why would they have mental health issues? And yet, Marvel are a stickler for details to ground their […]
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A few years ago in my final year at University I discovered a new love, midi dresses. I had until that point been a mini dress girl, but after wearing my Summer ball dress (pictured here) I realised I much prefer a slightly longer, whimsical, sit wherever you like, midi length dress. There’s something very […]
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I wasn’t sure if I needed to write about what I learnt at 23 after I read my post from last year about what I’d learnt at 22 which is full of slightly profound and pessimistic truths. I wrote that post after my break up (which I’ve written a bit about here) when I was […]
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