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  • Finding Or Creating Yourself?

    The truth is, I will never ‘find’ myself… Read more

  • These Things Make Me Happy | Spiritual Sundays

    Hello friends, and welcome to this week’s instalment of my new mini-series. I hope you are having a relaxing and peaceful Sunday. It’s been quite a heavy week on this blog, so I thought I’d do something simpler for this Spiritual Sunday. Today, I want to share with you five things that have brought me Read more

  • Brene Brown Taught This Cold English Girl How To Feel

    You know that iconic scene from Love Actually – one of the best films of all time, don’t fight me on it – about Joni Mitchell? Emma Thompson’s character is listening to Joni Mitchell while wrapping presents, and is explaining to her bastard of a husband (no, I’ll never get over it) played by Alan Read more

  • January 2020 Reading Wrap-Up

    Since deciding to go on a no buy for the entire year, I really wanted to get back into my favourite hobby of reading as well as trying to dedicate my time to more productive things. To see how everything else went in January, see my check-in post here. Today I wanted to talk about Read more

  • 5 Books To Reread In The New Year | 2020 Plans

    Reading is one of my favourite hobbies and it’s something that I’ve been making more time for over the past few years. I made a couple of reading goals for myself this time last year so I thought I’d try it again and see how it goes. Considering I’m going on a no buy in Read more

  • How Well Did I Do? | 3 Challenges I’m Setting Myself In 2019 UPDATE

    It’s that time of year again where I like to take my overthinking and analysing a step further by reflecting on the past 12 months. If you happened to be around this time last year, then you will see that not much has changed when it comes to this part of my personality. This time Read more

  • Going Back To Basics | Yet Another Quarter Life Crisis?

    She’s back, overthinking and reflecting on her life once again! If you’ve been here before, then you know that overthinking it what I do best. But by recording and sharing what’s going on in my brain, sometimes we come to some decent conclusions. My latest thing is that I feel like I’m trying to go Read more

  • How To Make A Fresh Start From Someone Who’s Obsessed With Them

    You know that feeling when you open a new notebook, slip into a freshly cleaned bed or start a new novel? I’m kind of hooked on it. It seems like I’m always saying that ‘tomorrow will be better’ or that ‘this time for real I’m going to get my act together’. In all honesty, I’m not that Read more

  • What I Read On Holiday (Ft. NetGalley)

    If you follow me on Instagram, then you will know that I have just come back from a 10-day holiday with my family. It was the first summer holiday I’ve had in a few years and the break was very much appreciated! You know by now that one of my favourite things to do is Read more

  • 3 Books To Make 2019 The Best Yet | What I’m Reading Wednesday

    Just let me say it once, and then I promise I’ll try not to again – I can’t believe 2018 is almost over! Honestly, as I get older the years just seem to be going quicker and quicker. It’s a bit scary to be honest, but it can also be a positive thing. The start Read more

  • Top 5 Mysterious Reads Of 2018 | What I’m Reading Wednesday

    I’ve read a lot of pretty great books this year! Now is the time for me to get all reflective and attempt to make a big decision; what was my favourite book of 2018? But while I’m not at that stage yet, I do have five incredible reads to share with you today. By documenting Read more

  • Planning The Perfect Day | Personal Self – Care

    I’ve talked about self-care a lot on this blog because it genuinely is a topic that means so much to me. Only a few years ago we didn’t even have a sufficient term for being kind to ourselves, which made talking about this topic pretty tricky. Thanks to other wonderful bloggers, influencers and social media Read more

  • How Do You Rate Books? | What I’m Reading Wednesday

    I read an awful lot. As I mentioned in a post a long time (this one here) 2017 was the first time I actually recorded every book I read. I’ve stepped it up a little bit this year and finally started rating my books too. I watch a lot of booktubers (that’s people who talk Read more

  • Six Badass Babes You Need Advice From | What I’m Reading Wednesday

    For a period of time all I read were self – help books. I can’t remember what one got me started, but I was hooked within no time. I really enjoy getting advice from others and a particular favourite mentor is a woman who is slightly older than me. Books can be an amazing way Read more

  • What I’m Reading Wednesday | A THRILLING Beginning

    Hello and welcome to a new series that I’m attempting to produce for this little blog! As you might have guessed, if you’ve been here before or follow me on Instagram, I love books. But as much as I love them I can’t find a decent way to bring them to this site. I’m going to Read more

  • Who’s To Say You’re Boring? | A Talk About Habits, Self – Esteem and the Wonders of Social Media

    I have always considered myself to be boring. For the majority of my life, I have been a (fairly) quiet, studious person who likes my own company. I enjoy reading, as you know, and staying indoors – like any stereotypical introvert would be proud to share. As I explained in a recent post, where I Read more