Tag: Confidence
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A competitive girl’s guide to losing.
I’m not even really sure I’m equipped to write this post as I often struggle to run my own race. Blame an underlying competitive nature. I love to check out what other people are doing and compare myself with them. That’s all fine and dandy if it turns out you come out on top, but…
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Suit of Armour.
I was reading a biography years ago about a successful business woman in the late eighties working in the music industry. The name of the woman and the book both elude me now. The heroine of the book, in a way I’m sure was common then {now?}, donned a suit of armour to face her predominantly hostile…
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Loving your body is just like any other kind of love.
Relationships take work. The relationship with your body takes work and I don’t necessarily mean at the gym. I post about my clothing choices, my life and my body in a bit of a haphazard way. Sharing and over-sharing when it takes my fancy. People assume my body and I have a rosy romantical love…
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Every. Single. Time.
Every time you tell a woman to cover her chunky arms. When you question the health of a slim model or berate a fatter one. Every single time you tell a Mother to be discreet while feeding her baby. When you say those shorts are too short. Every time you decide that she should be…
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Just Like My Mother.
I feel like my mother more than ever as I sit at the kitchen table, books and folios spread out around me everywhere, calculator at my side. She had notebooks for recording, and I had spreadsheets. Not much else has changed. The tennis is on tv; the night is hot despite the lightness of a…
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Day 25: Dream Bigger #ConfidentYou
If there is one thing we, as bloggers, have learnt over the past year it is that given the chance we can make a huge difference. Sometimes the simple fact is that we look at our lives and ourselves as too small. Take a look around. There are some big problems out there and YOU…
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My Guts on the Page {I <3 My Body}
Today is when women {and men, I assume} get the opportunity to proclaim loud and proud that they LOVE their bodies. The challenge laid down by the We Heart Life team is to declare three things that you love about your body. What you love can be anything you like. Anything at all. When I…
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Oh no she didn’t…
It’s that time again. The time we talk about the assumptions people make when you have a particular sort of body. Now me, my body is fat and a wee bit muscley as well. I’m almost 6ft tall, and you guys know that I am moving on. Scene set as they say. One morning…
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