Do you know what you want in a relationship? What a great one looks like for you? Do you put in work like you do for your body and your job? What’s most important to you? Is the majority of your time in your life spent on the things that are most important to you? […]
Category Archives: Love & friends
RULES, rules, rules and more rules…
We have so many rules in our heads about how things ‘should’ be. When we can let go of them EVERYTHING changes. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last couple of years reviewing what I think and why I think it. Do the rules and beliefs in my head help me or hinder […]
Start again with no preconceived ideas
Sounds simple enough but I am shaking my head at how much I forget to do this. I make so many assumptions about people when I meet them, based on the people I have met in the past. I think it’s part of me (or maybe all of us) trying to be efficient and work […]
Is this the best thing EVER?
The totally unexpected sheer delicious bliss of falling in love? Thinking about them all day, your heart skipping a beat when you get a message, the days between seeing them feeling like the longest days ever, the world looking more magnificent, not sleeping as you imagine conversations and things you will do together, the huge […]
Single is not a measure of your self worth
You can be amazing and be single! No it’s not a lie just to make you feel better. It’s a fact. There are people out there proving it every single day. Surely you know incredible people that are single? And you don’t think any less of them? It’s more a matter of timing. Surely it […]
What if Valentine’s Day gave you a reason to change you?
In Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert says… When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it… Welcome to the human experience… Never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. If […]
Why feeling lonely is a good thing
Yes this sounds totally daft. Let me see if I can actually explain this to make sense. Most of us are in such a big crazy rush every day. We are never alone. We are with our partners, our friends, our children, our work colleagues or a billion other people commuting to work. We feel […]