Category: Personal Growth

  • Return to your core

    I’ve shared this before – I’m one of those people who gets quite anxious about seemingly everything. I’m also quite emotional by nature and I get wound up pretty readily. … Read more


  • How to use journaling

    Recently, the creative writing club that I’m a part of worked through the exercises given in the first chapter of Susan Tiberghien’s One Year to a Writing Life. It … Read more


  • Building self-love by helping others

    One of the best ways to get into a good-feeling place is to help others. This really is the magic bullet and I’ve seen it work time and again both … Read more


  • Make Time – by Jack Knapp and John Zeratsky

    My Notes

    I’m part of a book club that meets every month to discuss a book. The … Read more


  • Lessons from Beth March

    I just had a good cry this afternoon. I am reading Little Women for the second time (the first time was more than a decade ago) and today I read … Read more


  • Self-forgiveness

    “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” 

    – Charlotte Brontë
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  • Becoming a woman of duality

    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

    – Nora Ephron

    Recommended by a dear friend, I started watching Anne with an E on Netflix yesterday. It’s … Read more


  • Self-care and using devices consciously

    I believe that one of the most important aspects of self-care is the conscious use of devices. I hadn’t realised the impact of being constantly connected with seemingly everything via … Read more


  • Tiny habit tweaks for major results

    The difference a tiny improvement can make over time is astounding. Here’s how the math works out: if you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll

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  • Staying in a good place

    How often do you feel that you’re in a good place? Do you think that you naturally have a sunny disposition or do you find yourself mostly having a bleak … Read more