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 +
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 +
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 +
Eat, Drink & Be Merry – Without Getting Fat, Wasted & Sad.
Operation Christmas is now full steam ahead. Wherever you look, halls are being decked, hams are being glazed and credit cards are getting spanked. Only four more sleeps until the fat man comes down the chimney and we all slather ourselves in bread sauce and festive cheer. So just in the St. Nick of time, here is a re-run of our Christmas Survival Guide – to help you gracefully navigate yourself MORE +
The 2017 Festive Survival Guide (Part 1) – Playing Nice With Your Family.
Christmas divides the world into two types of people. One can be found skipping into the festive season, a joyous ball of tinsel and wrapping, wearing their ‘ironic’ Christmas jumper with glee, humming ‘All I want for Christmas is You!’ The other can be found grumpily buying shit presents, for relatives they are dreading seeing and not so much in the holiday spirit, as knee deep in a bottle of MORE +
Vocabulary Police No. 65 – ‘Sorry’
One of the most overused words in the female vocabulary is 'Sorry'. ‘Sorry’ has become our default setting, our ladylike way of softening the blow, of ensuring we won’t offend. Problem is, with blatant over-use ‘Sorry’ loses any semblance of power and majesty, and so in turn do we. So, today may I suggest we save our sorry’s for the stuff that really matters and resist the urge to apologise MORE +
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