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Are We Spending Too Much Time Focusing On What’s On The Outside?
I write about body image, learning to accept ‘flaws’ and how my relationship with makeup and weight has changed over time. I follow accounts that share photos embracing their curves, their acne, their stretch marks, their differences. All around me, I see people celebrating their bodies and their appearance. Growing up in a world that…
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PCOS Awareness Month: Let’s Work Together!
September is PCOS awareness month and the start of Spring here in Australia, so what better time is there than now for me to start making changes that are going to benefit my health and happiness? I have written before about how PCOS has given me hormonal spots and how working indoors as a writer…
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Conversations with… Emma from Streetreads (Subject: Volunteering and Homelessness)
Through writing this blog and sharing my work on social media, I have been introduced to many wonderful people, charities and organisations that work every day to make the world a little better, a little kinder. A prime example of one of these organisations is Streetreads. Streetreads has a simple but significant goal – to…
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Conversations with… Joti @vitiligo_and_me (Subject: Vitiligo and Body Image)
Growing up with a birthmark, I was always aware that I was a little ‘different’. I can recall seeing other people with visible differences like mine only a handful of times in my life. Every time I saw someone with one, it was a welcome reminder that I wasn’t strange or ugly or weird and…
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Conversations with… Jess Kitching (Subject: Overcoming Sexual Assault)
** trigger warning – this post talks about the aftermath of a sexual assault** The introduction to this interview and questions were written by Janet Kitching, Jess’ mum. When you become a mum and they place that little bundle into your arms, apart from experiencing an overwhelming and all consuming rush of love, you simultaneously…
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Conversations with… Danni Shepherd AKA Pandora Belle (Subject: Acting, Modelling and Body Image)
At a family wedding when I was younger, I was scouted a a model. I was an incredibly shy, awkward child, conscious of my birthmark and the fact that I had hit puberty young. My mum politely said no, but I have always wondered what would have happened if she had said yes. Would I…
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Conversations with… Beth Shackleton (IBS and Body Image)
For most of us, when we go to the doctor we get an answer. A prescription might be given, a follow up appointment or test might be needed, but for the most part we walk away with a diagnosis. Only sometimes that isn’t the case. For a year, Beth was left looking for her answer.…
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Conversations with… Emma Naylor (Subject: ARFID)
Growing up, all I really knew about eating disorders was the brief mention of anorexia in Jacqueline Wilson’s ‘Girls’ series or the rare article on someone overcoming bulimia in the teen magazines I read. Women’s relationship with food and the societal pressure to look a certain way was not widely discussed. Girls who nowadays would…
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Conversations with… Ariel Brown (Subject: Birthmark Acceptance)
For all of the criticism of social media, I can’t deny the positive of it allowing you to find people that are like you. When I was growing up, I never really saw anyone else with a visible birthmark. There was one girl at my primary school who had one on her arm and my…