Luxury
My Dyspraxia Diagnosis
My childhood and teen years became a catalyst for self hatred. At school, I was punished for my forgetfulness and my hyper-sensitivity. Why couldn’t I cope as well as everybody else?!
Be the Change
‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ ...but in order for that change to be enacted, people have to see you so they can copy you. In order to influence others, you must have some kind of audience. To be the change, you need a platform! It is unfortunately not as simple as being. To be the change you want to see, you have to be seen.
Attendance Record for Life
My pain is not temporary, it’s chronic. That means it doesn’t end, it just becomes different. Worse, maybe. Quieter, hopefully. Gone, never.
Monsters are Real
Monsters are real: Anxiety. Isolation. Fear. Illness. Loss.
I didn’t Know I was Disabled
It was only easy to call myself a liar rather than disabled, because it was easier for other people to ignore my needs rather than to help me.
Medical Sexism
As women, we are dismissed all too often, considered hysterical rather than concerned, oversensitive rather than justified, dismissed rather than taken seriously. This happens to women everywhere but I want to specifically talk about sexism in the healthcare system.
2022
Kintsugi* means golden seams and 2022 knows a thing or two about threads.
You Deserve Food
I just want you to know you deserve food.
But I'm walking on eggshells, and don’t want to fall through the cracks. So I don’t say a word, and watch you order pizza without cheese for all the wrong reasons.
The Cliff Edge
As a child, I used to think there was a 'right' and 'wrong' answer to every question, that adults know what they are doing, and that love is always enough. These things are nice concepts, and entirely untrue.
The Cliff Edge (Poem)
The endless cycle of chronic pain
2021
I pleaded with 2020 to be gentle, to be kind. She had no such thing in mind. I asked nothing of 21. I've tried expectations and now I've tried none.
My Endometriosis Diagnosis
I Belong in Lockdown
Food shopping is not the triumph I thought it would be. I hadn’t been in a supermarket for almost two years…
2020
2020 has not been kind... but I don’t think it’s her fault.
Fear is just faith you can’t see
I have been thinking a lot about fear recently. This year has been terrifying. However, all emotions and thoughts have a positive origin because the first priority of our brain is to protect us. This might seem controversial at first but fear is a great example of this. Though we experience it as a negative feeling, fear is actually there to…
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