Think of You
Note to Self: Trust your intuition. The desire to believe other people’s words over their behaviour is a consistency in my life. I want to trust what they say because […]
View ArticleSo I Can Start To Begin Again
You know that annoying feeling where you’ve got a song lyric stuck in your head but you can’t for the life of you remember the song title, the artist, or […]
View ArticleEverything Changes
“Would you like to contribute to our Thankful Tree?” she asked kindly as I wandered past, while thrusting a small round card into my hands and directing me towards a […]
View ArticleI Can’t Even…
I am so tired. I can’t even. Anything. Sometimes, I sleep. Mostly, lately, I don’t. There is a red warning light flashing in my peripheral vision. I focus on what’s […]
View ArticleHomecoming
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end… “Closing Time” Semisonic The thing about time travel is that it’s much slower than people think. You can only go second by second, minute by...
View ArticleWrite What You Don’t Know
Hey, look you guys! I wrote a thing and someone published it! Filed under: mental health, writing Tagged: anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anxiety, bipolar disorder, blogging, bulimia, bulimia nervosa,...
View ArticleMusic Monday | Gasoline – Halsey
Once, I felt all of this. I remember it. Or, I think I do. I remember it in a way that feels like waking up from a dream. In pieces. Squinting into snippets and glimpses of half-made pictures. And I...
View ArticleMusic Monday | Castle – Slum Sociable
At the end of a year, people like to make resolutions, create goals or define ambitions for the next year. These can be helpful but they can also make life overwhelming, so they tend to fall by the...
View ArticleToday I Met A Lighthouse
The silver birches, white trunks gleaming against the blue grey sky, stand in a sea of daffodils. They are early this year, the daffodils. But everything is. Our winter has been unseasonably warm. The...
View ArticleWhite Male Rage and the Socialisation of Violence
Content note: sexual assault and sexual violence Today, Jessica Valenti wrote: A cruel irony of sexual assault and harassment is that the traumas which frequently determine the trajectory of women’s...
View ArticleIndustrial Accident
A brown velvet nose presses into the crook of my elbow Paws rest against my aching arm Locked into position by his warm body I shift, try to roll, uncomfortably Today there is no comfort Seven years...
View ArticleMusicless
Many Mondays have passed without music. As have all the Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. There is little solace and much grief. I’m trapped inside a free-falling...
View ArticleMusic Monday | Nothing Breaks Like A Heart – Mark Ronson ft. Miley Cyrus
This world can hurt you It cuts you deep and leaves a scar Things fall apart, but nothing breaks like a heart Songwriters: Clement Picard / Conor Syzmanski / Ilsey Juber / Mark Ronson / Maxime Picard /...
View ArticleMusic Monday | hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but I...
Six days ago, Lana Del Rey released her newest song. I’ve been tearing around in my fucking night gown 2/47 Sylvia Plath It’s a sheer, luminous ballad with her perfect voice echoing in a wash over...
View ArticleMusic Monday | Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
“And it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.” Curled on the couch of my airbnb eating olives, I strip the marinated flesh from the...
View ArticleNostalgia
And in the distance As barren hills are touched by black-tipped fingers The fading light reminisces about the days it lingered Over pots of tea with toast Whispering sweet nothings to its only ghost....
View ArticleMusic Monday | Outside the Lines – Birdtalker
After running a Spotify account for about two years, I’m finally starting to use it in a way that doesn’t involve just searching for my favourite songs and listening to them. Lately, I’ve been paying...
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