Body Positivity, Sex Positivity & Positive Psychology I am naturally a positive person. Always seeing the silver lining, looking back on my past with rose tinted glasses, creating funny stories about mishaps, with optimism leading the way into the future. Even if something bad happens, or I start to tune into all the many problems and issues…

The first 10 mins of lots of situations can be kinda awkward or hard. So just remember, get through the 10 mins of icky weirdness and then something clicks and then it flows. Dancing Think back to a time when you are at a family wedding, and the cheesy DJ is…

I get urges to write. I know I could simply write in my own diary. But there is something about there being a potential reader the other end which enables a crafting of a story arc (and something that makes more sense than my scribbles in my notebooks). My private…

For some reason this week I have met loads of men who’ve fixed things for me. The electricity went off, I found a sparky from TaskRabbit to come fix it — he solved it (so clever) and I noticed, well, he was very handsome… I took his number so we…

Whenever I did something seemingly impolite as a child, my mum would say to me, “Don’t they teach you manners at school?” and I would get the same from teachers at school, “Don’t your parents teach you how to behave?” Both blaming each other for not giving me the expected…

Climbing the career ladder does not make sense. At quarterly performance reviews, I think we need to replace all arbitrary targets and so-called S.M.A.R.T. goals to directing our attention to actually…saving the world instead? The ‘performance review’ at companies is another jumping through hoops exercise. I’d play the game on…

A question asked to me, meant as a compliment. As if to say, you are such a catch, how is it possible that no-one has snapped you up? Surely you have so many suitors queuing up to be with you? I wasn’t flattered, instead I got defensive about the question. …

Ok so I was going to write a blog about Burning Man but then faced some hesitation because a) how can I really capture its essence in words and do it justice? b) no one really cares about what a great a time you had at Burning Man, they are…

I am reflecting and decompressing from a transformational week at Burning Nest, the UK Burning Man. Of all the communities I find myself floating around in, this is the one that resonates with me most. Various places, parties and events I go to I may question, do I belong here…