by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
This, my friends, is a post about women. About strong women. The ones they call bossy, domineering, powerful and unladylike. This is for the girls, the women and the old broads who did things their way and didn’t ask for permission. This is for the women I know....
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence, Personal
While the blog has been a little quiet of late, life, and all that jazz, I’ve been thinking about you. About you and how life is treating you. Did you rally your best efforts for the first month? Or did you start a diet, a new job or did you quit an old one?...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence, Personal
First comes Christmas, then comes New Year’s Eve and then comes the season of body shame known as January/February. Festively plump from the seasons prior, and for me the six months prior to that, this year I was almost dragged into it. Almost. It’s a...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
In March this year I had just thrown in my day job and I was going to be A BLOGGER. Full-time. I was going to give it a shot and see what happened after six months. Then two days later I was made a work offer I couldn’t refuse. Then came a day four months after...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence, Lifestyle, Social Media
I’m pulling my Aunty Suger hat firmly on today after watching some friends and friends of friends struggle. How do you talk to your teenagers or pre-teens about being online? I want to give you something you can plonk in front of them, about social media, safety...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
Do you say sorry, a lot? I was thinking about it, and I do. I like to be polite, but sometimes I say sorry and I think, what the heck was that for? My question in this all is when does it stop being about politeness and start being apologising for existing....
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
I shared that I was awkward the other day and the awkward amongst us said me too! Together we get to celebrate our weird. Those unique things which make up our personality. But are you celebrating you for all you are? The acknowledgement of them and owning of them is...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
I talk a lot about the value of people, relationships and family here. I am an advocate accepting people as they are. I encourage others to adopt the live and let live approach. I wasn’t always like this, I used to be the fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, NO...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
I am recovering from a situation where being wrong, stuffing up and failing are the worst thing that could ever happen to me—a problem almost entirely in my head. I would make a mistake and be so paralysed with fear that I would try to cover my tracks, hide from those...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
This past was written last week and shelved, I went back to this draft today. For you and for me. For everyone who doesn’t let themselves take a break or take a minute to get real with how they are feeling. You don’t have to be strong. You don’t HAVE...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
We welcome to the blog today Alex of the awesome blog Jet Georgette. Alex heard that I had nothing written for the blog today and offered to supply a post that she knew my Confident You readers would enjoy. It’s a follow on from this post on her blog. A post...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
When you’re a child, and you peer off into the night, the cool of the evening settled in your room, the curtains rustle, and you know that there is a monster in the corner. You know beyond a shadow of a doubt to your very core that this is the end, that monster...
