Tag: thoughts
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Losing Our Spark: What I’ve Tried to Get It Back
Sometimes we don’t lose our spark all at once—it fades quietly beneath the weight of responsibilities, routines, stress, and everyday life. In this post, I’m sharing what it felt like when I realized I’d lost touch with myself, along with the small things I’ve been doing to reconnect with joy, purpose, and the parts of…
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The Thoughts After Your Child’s Birthday
The balloons are gone, the cake is eaten, and another birthday has passed. A reflection on the joy, sadness, and self-doubt many parents feel after celebrating their child’s special day
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Unlearning Toxic Behaviours: The Growth No One Talks About
Healing isn’t always about learning something new. Sometimes it’s about unlearning the habits, reactions, and coping mechanisms that no longer serve you. Here’s why letting go of toxic behaviours may be one of the most important parts of personal growth.
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Learning To Communicate Even When It’s Difficult
A personal reflection on people-pleasing, honesty, and learning to communicate even when it’s uncomfortable. Because sometimes the conversations we avoid are the ones we need most.
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The Year I Started Choosing Peace Over People-Pleasing
One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned is that people-pleasing isn’t always about kindness. Sometimes it’s about feeling responsible for everyone else’s comfort except your own. It’s time to break free from this cycle and embrace a healthier, more authentic way of living.
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What I Do As A Girl Mum
Raising a daughter comes with its own joys, challenges, and lessons. These are some of the intentional things I do as a girl mum to help raise a confident, kind, and resilient little human—while still figuring it out myself
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Things I Stopped Stressing About As A Mum
For a long time, I thought that being a “good mum” meant being a perfect one, or at-least a perfectly put-together one. I spent so much energy stressing over things that, in the grand scheme of things, didn’t actually matter to my daughter or my well-being
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Outside Noise
I thought it was a universal human experience to walk into a room and immediately begin calculating how to be “palatable.” I thought everyone spent their drive home replaying conversations, wondering if they said too much, or if their tone had misinterpreted, or how others thought of me. If they wondered if they had accidentally…
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Why Age 3 Has Been Harder Than I Expected (how I managed it)
Funny enough everyone warns you of the sleep deprivation of the newborn phase and the tantrums through the “Terrible Twos.” But somehow, in all the conversations about motherhood, nobody ever truly warns you about the “Threenager.”
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Things I No Longer Apologise For
I realised that apologising for my existence and boundaries was actually just a way of making myself smaller to keep other people comfortable. I’m done with that.