Hi guys, long time no see! I can only apologise for my time away from my lovely blog, it’s been a few months since I last posted and I have really missed this place!! I hope you have still been catching up with me on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. If not go follow me now […]
If you aren’t singing Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler after reading that heading then what are you doing with your life? Ok, enough 80s awesomeness. I’m not feeling awesome. And that pisses me off. After 3 1/2 years of surgeries, scars and ostomies I have gotten used to this body of mine. […]
I’m 36 this year. I’m the age I imagine my aunties to be. When I was a kid, 36 was my aunties who were proper grown up, it meant wearing business suits and having expensive face cream. 36 was having your life sorted and to be honest, kind of old. Yet here I am. Nearly […]
I thought I’d tell you a story that happened to me quite a few years ago when I had my son when I was just 19. He’d changed my whole life and I was completely in love with him, I was truly smitten and felt like I suddenly knew what life meant! Everything fell into […]
Before I had kids I was a size 8. After I was anywhere from a 12 to an 18. It was a shock to see my body change so much and I hated it. When I hated my body, I thought fat couldn’t be sexy, or beautiful, or attractive. I’d been taught that fat people […]
For the longest time, when someone asks me how I’m doing, I said “fine thanks!” It’s bright, breezy and if we are honest, what most people want to hear. Lots of people I know in the real world read this blog, and so when I see them, I think they feel they have to […]
Ahhhhh other people telling women what they should and shouldn’t do with their bodies again. And heaven help us if a mother does what feels right for her and her child. Tamara Ecclestone has been defending herself after images of her breastfeeding her two year old child were shared. Via Tamara Ecclestone Instagram The breastfeeding […]
I was thrilled to hear that Tesco are changing the signs on their accessible toilets to recognise that not all disabilities are visible. As a Community Champion for Crohns and Colitis UK, I spoke out about my thoughts on the change. There are times when going to the supermarket and doing my weekly shop […]
I was very pleased to be asked to talk at the 12th congress of the European Crohns and Colitis Organisation in Barcelona. I will be attending next weekend and speaking with a panel of people from around the world about what life would be like if everyone in the world had IBD. The […]
Right, people with a cervix, let’s talk about vaginal health! Not a usual topic for me, but today I wanted to share my latest escapades and remind you all to think about your cervix. I am up to date with my cervical smears, but for the past six months I have been having odd symptoms […]