Daily Writing Challenge

I need to get out of the vicious cycle of self-sabotage I've been living in lately

Setting goals

I’ve realised I have a bit of an anxiety trigger when it comes to setting goals for myself. Partially because of some SMART goal setting in work a while back, leading to a very stressful period of work for a while. But also from the fear of not being good enough. No matter what I …

Wardrobe Malfunction

I have a sometimes tricky relationship with the contents of my wardrobe

Grief

It’s a strange one, with sometimes no rhyme or reason to it. Grief is there in the background, just waiting to punch you in the guts with a memory, good or bad, overwhelm you with guilt and what ifs. Make you feel oh so very alone. Regret. It’s there. Sometimes front and centre. Sometimes in …

I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want…

Well, I would but I actually have no idea! I'm jumping ahead here, let's go back to the start... In an effort to do less mindless scrolling and online window shopping, which generally just leaves me feeling unsatisfied, I decided to have an afternoon reading the articles and links I'd saved to "read later". I …

September’s short term goals

I've not got all the details set for how I'm going to do this but, for the purposes of keeping myself accountable, I'm writing it down here as best I can

It’s not me, it’s you?

I don't quite know how to say this...

Failing to plan or planning to fail?

Where do you see yourself in five years time? Those words are likely to have me breaking out into a cold sweat, running a mile and reaching for the closest gin bottle I can find.

There’s something about August

The last time I'd written with any great regularity had been last August

Music soothes the savage beast…

Music makes me feel better. It helps me process things. It helps my mood.