There are few feelings more painful than the swift blow of rejection. Being told that we are actually.... not what someone wants, is a harsh truth indeed. In fact, being dumped feels much like it sounds - an excretion without ceremony - leaving us with little choice, but to believe everything bad about ourselves, that we may have at some point considered. Yup - it is just as we thought - we are in MORE +
Men, Commitment & The New Pair of Shoes Theory
I met a guy recently - let's call him Andrew. American. Handsome. In that jock-tastic, Abercrombie meets Fitch kind of a way. Andrew recently quit his job and broke up with his girlfriend, maybe because he just turned 30 (please, dear God, don't say I am a grown up yet?), or maybe because the job wasn't right, and neither was the girl. Or maybe, just maybe, Andrew is like a lot of guys I hear MORE +
How to Live Longer & Why Superfoods Are Less Important Than You Might Think.
Look, I don't want to live forever, (that sounds exhausting). I just don't want to die whilst I still have sh*t to do. Hence, the whole subject of longevity - and why the 3-pack-a-day octogenarian might still be going strong, whilst the cardio-tastic, clean living 40 -yr-old is not - is interesting to me. Thankfully, it is also of interest to other people, which has saved me from decades MORE +
The Positivity Myth & Why It’s OK Not To Be ‘Fine’, ‘Great’ & ‘Happy’ All of the Time.
I like to think of myself as a pretty positive person. I would (probably) rate myself happy about 90% of the time. I appreciate that is a pretty, big number, but between the self-delusion and the chardonnay, I am going to dig my heels in. That said, my life is not one long, glorious walk in the park with Ryan Reynolds continually trying to call me. Sometimes it’s a bit crap. And, sometimes it is MORE +
MICRO-STRESS & Why ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’ is bad advice
Think about it. On an actual daily basis, most of us are not doing all that BIG stressful stuff like moving house, going through a divorce or suffering a bereavement. We are much more likely just to be doing our best to make it through the day - without (hopefully) anything too traumatic happening between the time we stare at our phones first thing in the morning and the time we have a final MORE +
Being Poor Sucks – The Truth About Debt and That Dress You just HAD to Have.
Poor is a relative term. One person's poor might be moaning how they can't afford anything from the new Alexa Chung collection, whilst sipping a $18 glass of Pinot, in their $400 pair of jeans. Others might be genuinely freaking out that they won’t be able to pay this month’s electricity bill and there are LOTS of us that spend the last week of every month limping towards the next pay cheque, MORE +
Grooming & The Real Cost of Not Scaring People.
It never fails to amaze me how much our basic, bog-standard, female grooming requirements can cost per year. I am not even talking about anything fancy - just the entry-level stuff. The bare f*cking minimum needed, to just get up, go out and not scare people. $4200. A. Year. That is how much I spend on, basically, just trying to look pretty. Are you horrified? Or are you mentally calculating MORE +
Sulking & Other Excellent Forms of Self-Sabotage
When I am pissed off, I could literally sulk for days. Happily wallowing in the perverse joy of my own self-enforced silence, occasionally adding a dirty look or pointed eye-roll for good measure. I could easily bury myself so deep in that sulk of mine, you would need to send a search party to seek me out. If you are a fellow sulker, you might recognise the triumphant warmth of self-righteous MORE +
How to Tame the ‘Worry Monster’.
Many of us seem to positively THRIVE on worry. We worry about everything. We worry about our diet, our work deadlines, about how on earth we are going to pay the rent. We worry about getting old, finding a partner, the threat of terrorism, what to wear. We worry about what other people think of us, that we don't eat enough vegetables, that we might be terrible parents, or alcoholics, or not very MORE +
3 Ways to Make Sure All that ‘New Year/New Me’ Crap Isn’t.
Most of us talk a pretty big game around this time of year. 2018 will be the year we will do more, be better and somehow magically morph into the person we feel we deserve to be. January 17th is the date we apparently all abandon ship on the lofty ideals, and go back to being the exact same person we were when the clock struck midnight just a few short weeks ago. I am a glass half-full kind of MORE +
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