Being inspired by real life not influencers

My body confidence journey has had a few ups and downs over the last 18 months and one of the ways I originally looked at to build that confidence was through fat influencers. I'm what in the new vocabulary is mid-sized but I don't think any terminology matters when you don't feel at peace with…

Year of crafts

I saw a random Instagram post the other week that talked of someone having a year of crafts. She was going to try some new craft (or do something with an already learned one) each month. I loved this idea and am going to try and so something with it myself. Counting the newer craft…

Development courses at work, mentoring and helping others

Sometimes a comment on a message board that you don’t give much thought to, can really make a massive change. Last week someone commented on a works message chat about a women’s only development course they wanted to boost numbers for. I’ve done the course, I loved it, so I said so. Thought no more…

Banking: Starting the new year by re-financing and saving money

I’ve had a really interesting couple of weeks financially. Martin Lewis is doing lots of topics on debt cost cutting with the start of the new year and the worries of cost of living, so I decided to have a look at my own. My utilities always run from the start of January so as…

Retirement planning

I used to laugh at friends when they hit 50 and started talking about how they’d stay with their work company now as they only had 10 years to go until retirement. This was back in the days when it was age 60 for women. Now I’ve just turned 50 I’ve turned into that woman.…

2023 reduction of social media

Social media as I know it was a bit turbulent towards the end of last year. Or rather Twitter was and that’s the main thing I use. All of it plus the fact that it’s the beginning of the year have made me think about the way I use social media and whether I actually…

Gyms, exercise and intuitive movement

I’ve been thinking a lot about exercise and movement this week. Firstly, it’s the beginning of the year and nearly everyone’s mind is on removing the excess of Christmas. However, it’s something I’ve picked back up that I’d been thinking about as far back as October. I have a referral in for the NHS weight…

2023 A year of crafts

I saw an Instagram post yesterday where someone said they planned to have a year of crafts. They had created a table of 12 boxes so they could add a different craft, art style or DIY project many of which she would be trying for the first time. It's an idea I absolutely loved. I'm…

2023 Word of the year to live by: FEARLESS

A few years ago I read an article about choosing a word for the year. A word that you could live by for that 12 months. I did it for a couple of years then covid hit & things like this went out of my mind. I've been thinking about it a lot over the…

2023 setting resolutions and goals

I really don't like the phrase new years resolutions but I guess by planning things I want to happen next year that's what they are. I've achieved so much over the last 12 months and the rebuilding of my life is going well so it's now how do I expand on that. Career: This will…