What better way to deal with feeling fed-up, lonely and pissed off than getting lost in a book?! Inspired by my darling friend and future novelist, here are my top 9 to help you through these times: 1) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: For when you’re feeling lost This beautiful short book is a perfect…
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Broken Boys
Broken Boys You are not a counsellor to heal all the distorted childhoods. You are not a hospital to mend all the broken behaviours. If a boy is damaged, it is not your job to do what his mother did not.Put your heart and soul into loving him, But don’t expect to plaster up the…
Self-care and What a Time to be Alone.
Choose yourself. Over and over again. Even when you’ve let yourself down. Choose yourself. Even when it feels uncomfortable. Choose yourself. Even when you’re tired. Choose yourself. Chidera Eggerue When things aren’t going to plan, it’s more crucial than ever to love and care for yourself. I’m still on the path of a career change,…
Everything I know about love and sex now I’m 26. Part 2/2
Inspired by Dolly Alderton in her book, ‘Everything I know about love’. See Part 1/2 here. Nice guys are hard to come by. If you spend the entirety of your teenage years in ONE long-term committed relationship by the time you turn 21, you won’t know how to talk to a boy you like, flirt,…
Everything I knew about love and sex when I was 16. Part 1/2
Inspired by Dolly Alderton in her book, ‘Everything I know about love’. Read part 2 (what I know now I’m 26) here. There is such a thing as the perfect man. He is my boyfriend. Getting a boyfriend is easy – just ask a friend for a boy’s MSN details and start messaging. Sex was…
Sex and loneliness: The Italian and The South African.
The loneliness I’ve sporadically felt over the past few years has clouded my judgments. Often, I’ve approached experiences with the attitude of, ‘that’ll make a good chapter for the book!’ and so I do it anyway. Of course, this is why I kept seeing The Bar Man. Until recently, I’ve been using sex as a…
8 Things I Trust In:
Because I’m human, some of these beliefs are contradictory – I apologise. I trust that things happen for a reason. This is so easy to believe when things are going right. But I’ve realised it’s more important to trust things happen for a reason when life isn’t going to plan. And to believe it…
The Dating Game
Being a single female in 2018 is tough. I’ve been playing the game, with lots of different opponents, for a year and still haven’t won. It seems for every ‘move forward three spaces’, my next turn resulted in me moving back a space. When will this game end?!
Colours of our lives
Last week I went to India. I am writing this at 3am on a Monday morning (UK time) because I can’t shift this jet lag, having only landed at 9pm Sunday night. For me, one of the most striking aspects of the Indian culture is the colour: sarees, spices and holi abir add a…
Are we all players?
Here are some snippets of conversations I’ve heard 20-something men have when I’ve been out and about in London and Brighton. Food for thought…? Guys claim women are more likely to be players now. Guys hate that ‘women hold the power’. They reckon some girls only want a guy if she can see he has…
