Tag: inspiring
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Conversations with… Bea (Overcoming a Life Changing Break Up)
Do you remember your first heartbreak? Of course you do – everyone does. I was seventeen and had only ever had a crush on one person since the first day of secondary school. He was my first kiss two months before my seventeenth birthday, but our lives were heading in different directions and it just…
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Conversations with… Lynne Andrews (Subject: Degenerative Disc Disorder)
I know Lynne through the school I used to teach at. In my first year of teaching, I taught her son and in my third year of teaching I was lucky enough to have Lynne working in my classroom as an SEN support assistant. I loved my job and a lot of that was down…
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Conversations with… Raven Swaine (Subject: Overcoming Cancer – Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
I met Raven when I was 18 through a friend who had invited me out with her group of friends. I remember feeling absolutely terrified to walk into a strangers house and meet an already established friendship group. Nobody wants to be the new girl, but there I was, the only one there in jeans,…
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Conversations with… Louise Scrivener (Subject: Mental Health/Charity Work)
As a writer who spends their time looking for the good things that happen in every day life, I spend most of my days with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Usually I spot the good things by simply walking along the road or flicking through my Instagram feed, but today’s interview with Louise came about…