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Laugh or cry ~it’s your choice

    Yesterday my amazing fiancé turned 40 🥳   I’d ordered a special yummy personalised cake for him and went to pick it up on Monday.    It was a stinking hot day ~ 37 degrees as I drove to get it. 🥵    As the cake maker brought it out, she looked utterly devastated and embarrassed saying due to the heat in her kitchen the cake hadn’t set properly.   She said she could fix it but needed…

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The grass isn’t greener on the other side – It’s greener where you water it

    We all know the old cliché phrase, “the grass is greener on the other side” – but most of us also know that in reality it isn’t true.   This phrase originally came from an American song written in 1924 called “the grass is always greener in the other fellow’s yard” by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting, and the chorus goes a little something like this:   The grass is always greener  In the other fellow’s…

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How I survived leaving toxic relationships ☠️

    Most of us in life experience at least one relationship that becomes toxic for us.    I’ve had my share of long term relationships that were abusive and codependent where I ended up as a shell of who I was. 😶‍🌫️   Leaving is hard because you’ve lost all confidence in who you are as a person.   Toxic people show traits of narcissism and borderline personality disorder among other things; they have attachment issues from childhood which…

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Are you having issues with your teenager?

    Recently I’ve been asked by a few mums whether I work with teens.    The answer is yes. ✅    Back in my early 20’s I was a mentor for youth at risk of being expelled from a school in Peckham, a low socioeconomic area in South East London.    Each week I’d turn up for a chat with them and they seemed so relieved to talk to me. 🥹   I wasn’t their parent, teacher or friend. …

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If I had listened to me, it wouldn’t have happened

    I was listening to a podcast last week and the person being interviewed was sharing their story of overcoming a challenge.   She said “if I had listened to me, it wouldn’t have happened.”   Which situations can you say that about in your life? 🧐    Where you ignored your gut feeling and intuition, only to be kicked in the butt by it later?   I know I can reflect on many such times.   If I…

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