Facetheory: A Review

AD - PR Products - https://www.facetheory.com/collections/skincare-sets/products/the-brightening-set At the grand old age of 31 I have genuinely never known how to properly care for my skin. I'm actually quite ashamed to admit it but I rarely took my make up off for bed, and most days I cleansed my face but skipped the rest of the …

Lockdown Labour

Aside from the obvious external complications surrounding giving birth in 2020, I would be lying if I told you that I wasn’t nervous – even saying this is an understatement. My labour and birth with Freya were traumatic for me, and the thought of a long labour ending with intervention again absolutely terrified me. Spoiler …

Overwhelmed

I have finally found a word for what I have been feeling. I’ve not been able to pinpoint it, I am not sad enough for it to be depression, nor anxious enough for it to be, well, anxiety – although they do still linger in the background with me (and sertraline) keeping them at bay. …

One in Four

People have miscarriages all of the time. Literally 1 in 4 women lose their unborn child to miscarriage. Some happen so early into the pregnancy that the mother didn't even know they were expecting. And yet I never thought it would happen to me. On 15th July 2019, a day that should have been so …

Home Sweet Home

3rd July 2019 - I have just sat and cried my little eyes out from a huge mish mash of emotions. After six and a half long and stressful months I've just received the most welcome text from Carl I could have received (Second only to "we've won the lottery, hand your notice in").... "the …

Cheer Up Charlie

Since I (officially) began suffering with my mental health following my traumatic experience of labour, I have been making a conscious effort to find out what it is that makes me tick. When I am having a "down day," more often than not I feel like I don't want to do anything at all, and …

A Year in the Life of….

A lot can happen in a year. That's a bit of a cliché, but I guess the thing with a cliché is it's based on truth. After a bit of a dramatic end to 2018, I thought I would look back over the whole year to try and balance out my current emotions (mainly misery …

All I want For Christmas is…

In case any of you hadn’t noticed, it’s December, which means Christmas is absolutely everywhere, my house included. I really do love Christmas, even more so since becoming a Mum, but I know it can be a really difficult and emotional time for people for a huge number of reasons and not everybody feels quite …

Team Yellow

It is a bit of a cliché, but it has been my lifelong dream to become a mother. Since I was a little girl I have imagined myself with lots of children, a happy, noisy, messy home with me at the centre. I was lucky enough to fall pregnant in June 2016 without any complications …

The Best Days of Your Life

It’s National Anti-Bullying Week, and I felt like I couldn’t let it pass by without having my say on a subject close to my heart, that affects so many people in so many ways. School is commonly referred to by many as being “the best days of your life,” and I can understand why some …