Finding your confidence

The summer has come off furlough and returned back to work today. Who knows for how long? It’ll probably go back into to lock down now I have said this. So, I bring my journal, my sunglasses and my very weak excuse for a glass of wine and sit outside in the...

The first step to anything is to say you can….

By 4am, I had eaten all my biscuits in my little plastic tub and was on my second brew. I caught up with personal/work emails as I sat listening to my husband snore and my stomach ask for more food. Steroids are clearly still taking their toll. I am not taking any...

Where are my eyelids?

Despite it’s best efforts to destroy me, I have had a reasonable few days. Weirdly yesterday was better than today. Getting back to counselling is definitely a tonic for me. I look forward to working with my clients today. I sometimes can’t reach for my...

Simon Cowell’s teeth

The drugs didn’t work last night. Hell no. I was up at 02:30 am feeling mmmmmmhhhhh. I tucked into the digestives which helped. I was hot. My head felt wet but it wasn’t. My tiny bristles are flaking off – I rubbed my head and they flaked off onto my...

He thought I was dead…

Just quickly before I start today’s reflections…. this will make you laugh. I left my husband and youngest watching some crazy Marvel film thingy last night and took myself off to bed. I have a little routine – face cream, eye cream,hand cream, ear...

A year ago today…

……I was sat having a meal on the beach in Gran Canaria with my family. Unbeknown to me I’d have had breast cancer then. That makes me sit somewhere on the feelings scale between anger and sadness. How fast has that year gone? Do you ever think like...