Teenage motherhood: struggling, succeeding
It was incredible to me, the way that being responsible for another human being before I was even an adult myself gave me such instant, pin-sharp focus. I had been drifting in a lazy way about the task of learning to drive; no longer. Within 3 months of my...
A teen mum, always
I was a teenage mother. That is a fact about me that I could never have anticipated would define me in the way that it has, even now, even when my first baby (born so neatly in the Christmas holidays of my final year of the 6th form) is...
Coming undone
“Midlife is not a crisis. Midlife is an unravelling”. Brene Brown When Brene Brown used those words in her brilliant 2018 blog on the myth of the midlife crisis, they spoke to me in a powerful, personal way. Midlife IS an unravelling. Brene’s words are powerful and true, and...