• And The Universe Pulled Me….Believing In Signs

    21/11/2017 - By 

    Do you believe in signs? I never used to, but I do now. I think things changed when I started to listen to what many call their “gut instinct” or “following your heart”. I would feel this panicky need to do something, or a pang of jealousy over someone’s accomplishment, or start seeing the same word over and over and I would often ignore it. Finally, I met someone who taught me to believe in and follow these signs. He was basically a self-obsessed person that used to think of following his bliss, regardless of who he was hurting along his journey…

  • ‘Girl’ Does Not Have to Be A Four Letter Word

    26/09/2015 - By 

    Let’s talk about the word ‘girly’. People have attached a meaning to girly that I don’t see it as. It is synonymous, in our Western culture, with ‘airhead’, ‘weak’, ‘self-absorbed’ or ‘flaky’. This might sound a bit hardcore feminist but I feel that in our society- either subconsciously or consciously- men are seen as the strength and women are seen as vulnerable or weak. Being girly or feminine is seen as a weakness. Conversations happen all the time where a woman will say, “Well you know how I’m not girly at all, but I bought a dress! A dress! I…