Have you ever realised you’re actually horrible to yourself? Like you are so hard on yourself sometimes it borders on cruel? It shocked me one day when I realised the negative loop I’d get stuck in with myself and the relationship I had with myself. I prided myself on looking after myself, being well, working hard and going after what I wanted - all while having a relationship with myself that was, at times, pretty brutal. I just didn't realise because I thought that was normal… it was my...

Woman standing with confidence

Something I want you to know about me is that I have a PHD in self-abandonment. I mean, not an official one from an esteemed university, but a lived experience that warrants a PHD. I have gone granular on self-abandonment, avoidance, and disconnection. I have studied and examined what it feels like to move away from yourself, drift away, run away, numb out, disappear, and make yourself invisible. I have been a master of it. I have been a servant of it. And I have been a fighter from it. 12.3...