Reclaiming your identity: The “Mum-Identity” Gap The Quiet Disappearance It doesn’t happen all at once. It’s a slow, quiet erosion. First, your hobbies go. Then, your spontaneous evenings out. Eventually, even your professional confidence starts to feel like a memory of a different person. You wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and while … Read more
I used to let my fear decide my future – but that all ended 5 years ago! Allowing my fear to predict my future meant I was always conforming! Conforming to the standard way of doing things Doing what everyone else was doing Doing what needed to be done to fit in, for fear of … Read more
Why Passive Income is the Ultimate Escape Eight years ago, if you had asked me about passive income, I would have looked at you blankly. It simply wasn’t in my vocabulary. All I knew was the traditional way: you worked a job, you earned a wage. It’s all I’d ever known since leaving school, and … Read more
I used to think that Self-care is only for people who’ve got all their sh*t together! And you’d be forgiven for thinking the same…. But, I couldn’t have been more wrong! Do you know what I realised? I realised that you can’t wait for everything else to be ‘just right’, feel ‘under control’ and ‘less … Read more
The reason I want to talk about Feminism and The Patriarchy in the context of happiness is to show that The Patriarchy has a detrimental effect on the happiness of us all.
With a Patriarchal society everyone misses out on something and this is affecting everyone’s sense of happiness and wellbeing, as well as their sense of worth.
In today’s busy world, it’s all too easy to be disconnected from ourselves.
And with that disconnection, we lose our self-awareness.
We often just switch into auto-pilot and move through life in an almost mechanical way.
Auto-pilot mode serves no-one, especially not ourselves.
Heere is a list of a few of the stupid things that many of us women do when it comes to money…..
This blog is based on an excerpt from my forthcoming book. In the book, I have a chapter that talks about “What Happiness Isn’t”. It may seem counterintuitive to start a book about happiness, by talking about what happiness ISN’T but there is method in my madness, I promise, so stick with me here. I’ve … Read more
We are taught that taking our place in society and in the workforce is more important than figuring out how we actually want to spend our life.
We are taught that those things are more important than our own happiness.
We are not taught how to be happy.
I always used to say “I’m not ambitious” And, I meant it! Now, it’s not true…..because now ambition means something totally different to me. Here’s what ambition used to mean to me; 👎 Climbing the greasy corporate ladder👎 Being cut-throat👎 Being willing to tread on people on my way to the top👎 Chasing the money, the next promotion, the … Read more