10 Body Positive Affirmations to help you love the skin you’re in

10 Body Positivity Affirmations to help you love the skin you're in

For so many years I was very self-critical of my physical appearance.  Putting myself through the craziest of diets and ‘toning’ treatments and non-sustainable exercise routines.  Sadly, I felt the size displayed on the label of my clothes defined me, and my comparison standards were not even of my peers but of airbrushed models in […]

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How to truly love yourself (in a non-self-centred way)

I love me!

How to truly love yourself!  Sounds a bit self-centred, doesn’t it?  It makes me picture myself standing on a table in a middle of a crowded room shouting ‘I love myself’ and receiving the response ‘Wow what an ego, how did she fit her head through the door’ before the crowd erupts into laughter and […]

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Embracing makeup-free days

Embracing makeup-free days - Is it time to ditch the makeup?

If you had told me just a few short months ago I’d be writing about how I’m embracing makeup-free days well, you’d have been met with a lot of laughter (and possibly a few expletives) but blow me down with a feathered makeup brush, that’s exactly what I’m doing!  Let me tell you a little […]

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How to practice Self-Care without feeling selfish

A young woman sits taking time out for herself reading a book and drinking a glass of wine

Sometimes the hardest thing – especially for us women – is to take time for ourselves, to practice self-care. There have been countless times I’ve wanted to just sit & breathe.  But there is always something to do, someone to help, somewhere to be.  If I took 5-minutes for myself, my inner-critic would rear her ugly head to […]

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Silencing your Inner Critic

Silencing Your Inner Critic

Say 3 good things about yourself… I’m a good friend.  Are you?  Are you really though?  I have a list of your epic friend-fails to hand if you want it!  I’m hardworking.  Seriously? I’ve met sloths more hardworking than you!   I have a big heart.  What so it fits in your fat body?  That’s […]

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5 ways to build up your self-worth

5 Ways to build self-worth. A contented woman stands happily in her kitchen drinking from a mug

Let’s be clear from the get-go: your worth has nothing to do with how you look, your bank balance, or your material belongings.  Literally nothing to do with these things.  So if you’re here thinking that’s how you build self-worth, get ready to turn your attention elsewhere.   As I mentioned in the self-worth month launch […]

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November Well-Being Focus: Self-Worth

Our Well-Being Focus area for the month is Self-Worth

And now the end is near and so we face our final curtain ‘self’ focus (I worked out I could literally have the entire post as a parody of My Way – but I’ll spare you that).  We really have come to our final chapter in the trilogy of ‘self’.  We’ve explored self-awareness, self-acceptance and […]

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