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Even though there is so much sadness and darkness in the world at the moment, there is still so much love and hope ❤️ Please have a read of my blog about the different ways my loved ones have been there for me throughout lockdown. I hope with all my heart you can see that there is love and light out there still ❤️

https://songsforthestressed.home.blog/2021/02/14/love-in-the-time-of-covid/

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It’s hard heading into 2021 with hope when things look so bleak ~ but here’s how I’m trying ❤️

https://songsforthestressed.home.blog/2021/01/12/disco-jeans/

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Hannah in ep 1: doesn't eat

Me: she's a ghost

Hannah in ep 5: is a ghost

Me:

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Killian: Something smells delicious

Emma: It’s just from a box

Killian: I’m not talking about the pancakes

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anyway Rick Riordan saw JK R*wling posting her bullshit again and decided to be a king we can trust and show support for trans creators publicly. a true ally

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So it’s been a while since I wrote a blog post, but last week was Time To Talk Day~ a day that encourages opening up and talking to someone about your mental health! Most of you that know me know how important I believe this is and I wanted to do something to start the conversation ❤️ even though I think mental health conversation is more prominent in our every day lives, it doesn’t make it any easier to come out and talk about it ~ sometimes you won’t want to or sometimes you won’t even know what’s wrong. So this is my experience with talking about mental health, and I want you to know if you ever ever ever need anyone to listen to you, I’m here to listen ❤️

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Getting into the Halloween spirit! 🖤 By chance I discovered the London Horror Festival yesterday and immediately booked tickets to see two performances today! 👻🖤 the Maydays were ABSOLUTELY incredible - absolutely amazing, creepy, funny, genius improv 👏 (inspired by The Brothers Grimm, Edgar Allan Poe and Tim Burton - could there be anything more me?) and the night was rounded off with some hilariously spooky Italian Horror Stories! 👻🎃🧟‍♀️🖤#lhf2019 #londonhorrorfestival #horror #london #halloween #spooky #themaydays #italianhorror #improv #fairytales #timburton #edgarallanpoe #frankenstein #dracula #pleasancetheatre #happilyneverafter (at Pleasance Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3k3aKuplA_/?igshid=i39lw0i2gnuy

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My new favourite Halloween mug 🖤👻🎃🐾 #westie #halloween #wizardwestie https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LIUNVJZi6/?igshid=vlm0hm1uw903

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Last night I went to THE BEST SHOW I have ever been to! @bodyposipanda is my hero ❤️😍I haven’t cried meeting Evanescence or Jennifer Morrison but standing in front of Megan Crabbe holding her book that literally changed my life I got incredibly emotional explaining why it meant so much to me. I’ve felt as if Megan has been there holding my hand over the past few months, pulling me out of my own self-hate and low self esteem! Megan said I have done so well and pulled me into THE most comforting hug, it felt like she wasn’t going to let go - she is the kindest human!! I am SO grateful to her ❤️ The show itself was full of SPARKLES and FUN and DANCING (THE OPENING SONG WAS MEGAN’S OWN VERSION OF HOW FAR I’LL GO FROM MOANA WITH THE LYRICS CHANGED TO DISCUSS THE HISTORY OF DIET CULTURE, I WAS SO EXCITED I NEARLY JUMPED OUT OF MY SKIN) as well as ANGER about diet culture, complete with an incredibly informed break down of the history of why we have disordered relationships with our body and food and the best bit - WHAT TO DO NEXT! Because together we can get ANGRY and say fuck you to diet culture and love our bodies ❤️ I promise to love my soft squishiness and treat it with kindness! (Thanks to Megan I now see my cellulite clusters as “constellations napped across my thighs” because I am goddamn magical!) Because our bodies ARE NOT THE PROBLEM - the way we have been taught to view them is! I am ENERGISED AND ANGRY AND READY TO FIGHT DIET CULTURE! SHOUT OUT THE @thevagaggle TOO FOR BEING FUCKING HILARIOUS! 💞 #neversaydietclub #neversaydiet #dietculture #fuckyoudietculture #selflove #selfkindness #bodypositive #bodypositivity #bodypositivepower #megancrabbe #meganjaynecrabbe #bodyposipanda #thevagaggle #bodyshop #myhero #thebodyshop (at Bloomsbury Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2yeP5cJO4b/?igshid=1xkkq41aso4sh

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Comment a pink emoji! 💓

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instagram.com/femalecollective

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So a couple weeks ago I heard about Weight Watchers new app designed to help children aged 8-17 to lose weight. I was absolutely infuriated. Children should be living their lives and having fun, definitely not basing their happiness and confidence around their body size.

Diet culture normalises a LOT of disordered relationships with food. So I’ve written a blog post about my relationship with food and body image ❤️ it’s quite personal so if you get bored feel free to abandon it... 😂 but if any of it resonates with you remember how frickin beautiful you are, inside and out! And if you need someone to talk to, I’m here. You are not alone!

And, most importantly - this is why I discovered my love for chicken burgers!!!

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“I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.”

— Fredrik Backman

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#get you a girl who can do both

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when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest