#SpeakingTheUnspoken Hello to my younger self, I know that being a teenager is hard but let me just tell you that even so soon as…
The truth about ‘self-care’ As far as I can see, self-care is too often pitched by sleek, photoshopped instagram models telling us that merely drinking…
Finding meaning in words I find a lot of solace and constance in words and the English language. It’s something I’ve always loved, and English…
I have been quite guilty of rolling my eyes at ‘inspirational quotes’, seeing them as cliché and pointless; the same empty words constantly regurgitated. To…
Creative self-expression can be a positive emotional outlet for feelings of anxiousness. When we do not know how to explain what we are feeling, we…
Stretching my comfort zone at university I have been seriously stretching my comfort zone ever since I started university (which you can read about here),…
Remember how it felt at school, when a teacher would ask a question that you had no clue how to answer? So many of us…
It’s fair to assume that if I have something coming up that I’m worrying about, I’ll be thinking of a thousand different ways things could…
Rattle the stars Hundreds and hundreds of books overflowing from my bookcases show that I’ve always been a big reader. You can usually find me…
One girl, a gap year, a university, and a whole lot of fear. That’s the run down of things right now. Let me explain… Things don’t…
When you experience social anxiety, social gatherings can seem endlessly daunting, and it can often feel as though the safest option is to gracefully bow…
As students, we have so many exams to take, it gets to the point that we’re almost reciting revision in our sleep. There’s so much…