Why Your Body Image Issues Are Affecting Your Dating Life—And 7 Ways to Change the Narrative
When you don’t feel confident in your own skin, it can quietly sabotage your dating life—whether you realize it or not. Body image issues can make you second-guess compliments, hesitate to put yourself out there, or even settle for less than you deserve. If you’re constantly worrying about how you look rather than how you […]
I Just Got Engaged, but My Best Friend is Grieving a Breakup: Am I Allowed to be Happy?
Two weeks after my best friend’s engagement fell apart — the invitations had already gone out, the venue was paid for, the dress was hanging in a bag in her bedroom — I found out I was pregnant. I sat with the positive test for forty-eight hours before I told anyone, just her and me […]
Maybe You Aren’t Ready to Date – Discovering the 321 Framework and the Importance of Being Single and Reflecting
I’ve been broken up with in some spectacular ways. There was the text at midnight. The conversation that began with “I need to talk to you” and went somewhere I’d been dreading for weeks. The person who just… stopped replying, and I spent the next month talking myself out of texting them again. And each […]
The Silent Pressure of Being “Strong”: Why Women Struggle to Ask for Help
I grew up in a family where strength was the currency. You didn’t cry at the kitchen table. You didn’t ring your friends in a panic. You got on with it. And to this day there is a version of me — she surfaces at the worst possible moments — who would rather dissolve quietly […]
The Emotional Weight Women Carry: How to Manage Stress Without Burning Out
I read something recently that has stayed with me. A researcher studying household labour asked couples to separately estimate what percentage of domestic tasks they were responsible for. When they added the numbers, the total consistently exceeded 100% — each person believed they were doing more than their fair share. The same dynamic applies to […]
The Mental Load: Understanding the Invisible Work Women Do Every Day
People see the work. Things like cooking, cleaning, working, and running errands. Then there’s work that no one sees. Remembering when to go to the doctor. Keeping up with school due dates. Organising meals ahead of time. Seeing changes in how the family feels. Seeing problems coming before they happen. The mental load is the […]
How to Set Healthy Boundaries Without Feeling Guilty
The first boundary I ever set that I actually held was with my mother. It took me thirty-two years, two therapists, one very patient friendship group, and a period of personal crisis to get there. The boundary itself was straightforward — I asked her to stop commenting on my weight when we spoke. Simple. Reasonable. […]
Why Overthinking Affects Women Differently And How to Break the Cycle
I once spent four hours — four actual hours, I checked my screen time — turning over a single text message I’d sent to a new colleague. Had I come across as too eager? Not eager enough? Did that comma make it sound passive-aggressive? Was the exclamation mark too much? By the time I’d decided […]
Self-Worth Beyond Relationships: Learning to Love Yourself First
For many women, relationships become very important to their sense of self-worth. Being picked makes you feel good. Being loved makes you feel safe. I think it feels nice to feel good being needed. When things work people just feel basically more confident. When things fail self-esteem always just seems to go down. You know […]
From Fear to Freedom: How Women Can Build Emotional Resilience
I’ve never particularly thought of myself as someone who struggles with fear. I’m fairly decisive, I take reasonable risks, I’ve built a career and a life that required some courage at various points. And yet when I look honestly at the version of myself from my early twenties — navigating a new city, uncertain relationships, […]