I honestly always love your content. It really does have an impact on me. Sometimes I don't even realize how mean I am to myself until you share something that hits home.
This weekend is a VERY exciting weekend for me. For the past 3 years I have lived (with my now husband and kids 8 & almost 2) in such a dumpy apartment. I hated it but it was a roof over our head. My husband and I have worked very hard together-especially the last year- to get out of this place. From being burglarized to the cost of over 3,000 (U.S. Dollars) to a car break in, a second car break in AND theft, and an attempted arson....
This weekend it finally is a closed chapter. We worked our butts off to earn ourselves higher wages to qualify for am amazing new apartment! (living in Washington State, USA is SO painfully expensive. My run down apartment was 1600.00 a month with a planned price hike to 1800.00 in Dec. For a 2 bed.)
Our new place has more space, gated, security, and it's not old and broken down. I am really just so proud of us. That apartment served its purpose but I have proudly done a lot of hard work and growing to be able to shut that door!!! And I'm just so damn happy.
That sounds wonderful and exciting for your family! I wish you the best in your safer and more spacious apartment - hope you are enjoying the process of moving in and making it homey.
Desiree this is such beautiful news!! I am so pleased for you all. I hope you get to soak in every precious moment of being in that new space and making it feel like home. Well done you 💜💜
This is only my second MJC mail, But I’ve really come to look forward to them plopping into my inbox. I’ve followed you for years and you just offer me comfort. Comfort to be authentically me even when it feels hard.
In my life at the moment my schedule is hella busy. I’m working full time and studying full time, so hearing your message of not doing it all speaks to me! It’s a great privilege to do both those things but I sometimes feel I’m missing out.
Thank you for leaving this comment and giving me some comfort back on a dark rainy evening in London! I really do appreciate getting to be part of your journey in this way over the years 💜 sounds like you are doing a LOT, like more than enough. go easy 🤗
Hey Megan, I’m a recent subscriber after my wonderful lil sis sent me your IG. I was having a big dilemma about my own views on weight and body image after being a member of a weight watchers for three years 😬 The way it shaped my thinking and made me adopt all these habits that now seem to be a deeply ingrained part of me is difficult to challenge and move away from. I realised just how much I’ve been tying self worth and value to my weight and in turn how that shapes my view of the world. I’ve always been someone who opposes beauty standards but I realised that deep down, subconsciously I have a lot of judgement and shame that stops me from showing true love and acceptance to myself and others. Reading your words and seeing your approach to life has genuinely been life changing for me! Realising the meaning of true beauty and love is really giving me strength to challenge the negative thoughts. Thank you so much for being the change and huge congratulations on the amazing things you’re doing 🙌
Hi Dee, hope you don’t mind me replying. I started Weight Watchers with my mum when I was 17 and then was in and out of WW and Slimming World for the next 15 years. Unsurprisingly my weight bobbed up & down over that time, depending whether I was on or off the points/syn counting wagon. Megan and other body positive accounts on insta have done a huge amount to fix my relationships with both food and self worth. I’ve just finished reading Joshua Wolrich’s Food Is Not Medicine which has been very eye opening too. Like you I would never have judged someone else for being bigger, but I judged myself a lot. Best of luck in your continuing journey of self acceptance and cutting the ties between weight and self-love ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, it definitely is a journey and this will be an ongoing process. Keep challenging those negative thoughts that pop up and ask yourself if they are real. It can also help to say them out loud to someone close to you - my brain is telling me X - and get out of your head a bit. I have a complicated relationship to my body as well - I hope you are able to focus more on how you feel and what your body can do instead of what society says it “should” look like. Highly recommend trying mirror work and some sort of activity that makes you feel powerful and connected to your body (weights, gardening, or yes, even twerking!). Wishing you the best in your self-love journey.
Woah Dee, what a powerful message. Thank you so much for sharing this. Helen and Anna are right - it really is a process of unlearning. We spend so many years surrounded by this stuff, unconsciously absorbing it all, so of course it takes a long time and a lot of practice to unlearn it. I'm thankful that you're on the journey now and that I get to be a small part of it. keep going! 💜
Thanks for sharing these lovely updates and thoughts, Megan! And congratulations on all your mega-deserved achievements. It's a joy to occasionally have your voice in my head when I listen to your reflections :)
Well how utterly delightful was that? What a beautiful round-up, thank you darling wonder-full being, and ending up on a delicious one-minute-reminder… I’m feeling beautifully satiated by your cosiness 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I’m so inspired by you and everything you do and stand for. I recently started dating women and seeing the prideful content you post makes me feel more comfortable in my own sexuality. I also started twerking a few months ago, my pole instructor recommended a class to me and then I started seeing your twerk content and felt more inspired to keep it up cuz I want to get goooood at it. I LOVE IT.
I saw Lizzo last night! I almost cried being so close to her. She is an absolute God. I felt so proud seeing the big grrls dancing on stage, I felt like my body was represented, that it is sexy and worthy of love and admiration. I looked at Lizzo and thought, the bigger the better! I hope to carry these feelings of love and adoration and power that I felt at her show last with me.
Wow everything has been exceptional at your end! Thanks for sharing up dates. It's lovely to see with not being an Instagram user anymore. I have started the process to university for a photography degree I have realised my self worth that I can do it and say no to other things and had to end other things because of my mental and physical health. All my focus is on university I am 30 + 5months so no freshers and wild student life just a quiet photographer life. Thank you for your encouragement words and I wish you all the best in your future successes and keep up the updates your amazing xxx
Rachael this is SO badass and incredibly inspiring - I've often thought about going back to studying in the future (without the freshers life lol) and this is really affirming to read. Looking forward to more updates as you get stuck into the course! 💜
Thank you for replying back , If I had a way to share my photos I would but once I'm up and running with a page and through the university process I will be sure to update. It's next year , I'm going to set my photography business in the process too. All those people who are doubting themselves that they can't do it. Of course you can , freshers and fitting in isn't a problem in my world. I'm going to university for myself and prove people who doubted me and said I would get no where in life. It's possible and it can happen the light can be drifted through the darkness. It may just take longer but it happens. Thanks for you support Megan much appreciated 💜
Go you! Literally focusing on what matters and letting everything else fall outside of the frame. I hope you are enjoying photography and excited about your classes. Wishing you all the best.
Thank you so so much for your comment it is really lovely for you to say that. It's next year but plenty photography In the mean time , I will share my photography page when I make one I'm sure, I hope things ate manageable for you and the same goes enjoy what makes you happy!
That just leaves more time to build anticipation then! It’s so important to have a creative outlet and take time to do something you enjoy. My partner does photography (self taught and NOT a day job) and has been involved in a local group that meets up to do shoots and projects. I highly recommend something similar if there’s a casual meet up in your area, that way you can get plenty of shooting in before school :)
I've been doing photography almost 4 and a half years now , I've done a level 3 already and lots of workshops and I have a little group of photography friends so it's good, university is the next step of my journey. Thank you for your encouragement it will eventually be my Job but still a way off but thank you 🙂
Loveliest and most timely read as ever. Read with a cup of Campfires & Vampires tea, recommended by a wonderful friend - so feeling appreciative and connected all round. Good Saturday morning.
Hi Megan! This was so lovely to read, you always help me maintain a sense of normalcy and reality somehow. Not much has been going on in my life except that law school is kicking my fine ass. I'm also finally traveling soon to meet my long-distance partner and I cannot wait!!! If you ever feel comfortable sharing relationship tips or just fun date ideas, I would love to hear from you :)
Wow, very exciting to meet up with your partner! I hope you have safe travels and a lovely visit - might I suggest spending some time outdoors, doing a project together, or cooking if either of you enjoy it? I’m not long distance but travel for work, and when I am home it’s nice to spend quality time connecting with my partner walking in nature or building something rather than out to eat (expensive and loud) or seeing a movie (same). When we travel together I try and find something memorable or novel to do - atlas obscura has helped. If there are any galleries or events nearby that might be a nice outing but I imagine you’ll also want to spend plenty of time together catching up! Have a wonderful time.
Well this is a lovely comment Saumya, thank you! And omg meeting the partner! How exciting. My only advice is to pick things that you would actually love to do yourself and try to soak up the experience of the date - you're there to enjoy yourself too, not just to make sure your partner enjoys it! It'll be great. Update me next time? 💜
Sorry I'm late to this one, but as always it's so lovely and uplifting to read your newsletters. Thanks for continuing to share and I'm so happy to see you continuing to grow your career 💜
What a fabulous update, Megan! You are living the dream :)
Such exciting news on all fronts! Thanks for being you and sharing your joy with the world.
I especially liked your thoughts on "Is it Just Me."
THIS >> "So why the hell would we let them decorate the place with opinions that turn our home into somewhere we don’t want to be?"
I had a hurtful relationship situation that I carried around with me for almost a year that I couldn't let go. It wasn't until I got over it and realized that he was not who I thought he was that I said to a friend "I let him live rent-free in my brain for months." Talk about instant enlightenment! What the hell was I doing to my brain space all those months?! It hurt at the time, but now I see it as a learning experience. And I'm a stronger person for it :)
Omg Michele THIS!! Exactly this. And so wild that we let people live up there who are literally just wandering around, going about their lives and maybe not even thinking of us 🤯 well done you for recognise and starting the process of moving that person out! Those neural pathways can be hard to rewire.
Thank you for always being so lovely and supportive and PRESENT! Sending big love your way 💜
I love the vibe of these updates - very cozy and real compared to the snippets social media shows. Thank you for sharing yourself online and being such a positive force in the world. You already know that you have the right to protect whatever details that other people aren’t entitled to - I don’t need to tell you that. Just very happy to see whatever is in your updates and what you’ve been up to. The art exhibit and twerking look so fun and energizing!
I am usually anxious about Halloween and actually managed to put together something office appropriate: a wrestler. Won an award (three way tie!) for best costume, was very comfy in leggings and a shirt instead of blouse and trousers, and most importantly had FUN!
PS I adore Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee, a book with 52 amazing women from history. Gorgeous illustrations and really amazing stories. Not a children’s book per se, just highly recommended :)
Omg Anna this costume!! Sounds badass. Hope you didn't bodyslam anyone during the workday. And well done for pushing through the anxious feels :)
Thank you for the reminder re. boundaries! Always appreciated, my brain does slip quite easily into thinking things are 'owed' (especially when good things are happening for me, like surely I must equal this out by giving EVERYTHING? 😅) but you're right. You're very right.
Thank you so much for this lovely catch-up! What an incredibly cool thing that you got to interview Elizabeth Banks! I think she’s such an amazing actress and director, and I’m looking forward to seeing Call Jane sometime in the future as well☺️ Also, I’m sooo happy for you and your girlfriend! It’s so wonderful to see the two of you together, living proudly - and so inspiring for other queer people like myself🥰
I also really loved the one-minute-reminder where you talk about how not being able to do everything and not having to be good at everything can actually be really empowering - it’s something I have to remind myself of quite often, but there really is so much truth in realising that what I do bring to the table is enough, just as it is.
Absolute pleasure to be here at the table with you Blanka, we definitely bring enough already!! Let me know what you think of Call Jane when you get to see it (EB was so lovely in person and super informed too). 💜
What a lovely issue this was. So much joy radiating from the email - art date with your girlfriend, twerking with Tom, Queen Gemma and my personal highlight, the book inclusion! Perfect timing for me. My nearly 7yo daughter has the original version of the book (albeit I’ve probably read it more with my son so far, as he’s a little older). However she is getting very into gymnastics at the moment and I am terrified about all the body conscious comments she’s starting to come out with. A dose of body positivity from someone other than her own mum will be extremely helpful - I’m ordering for a Christmas pressy for her right now 💕
Awh Helen what a lovely comment and what a beautiful gift. Thank you. She's very lucky to have those body positive comments coming from her mum - they mean more than you realise 💜
Your one minute reminder hit me hard. I'm balancing so many things right now, and it feels like I'm drowning. Everything is overwhelming, but my therapist continues to remind me that I can't control everything. And now you're reminding me. I think I need a constant reminder that I can't make everything work perfectly, and I can't solve all the world's problems. I can only focus on me and what I can do.
Trisha, I challenge you to let a plate drop this week! I will try to do the same. We cannot hold it all, all the time. We're not made to, we're just human. And we're doing great. 💜
It hit me hard too! Such a hard thing, to focus only on what we can control and let the rest fall away, instead of making ourself responsible for everyone and trying to do everything. I have a sticky note reminder in my work calendar: did anyone ASK me to? which helps me pause instead of jumping in and spreading myself too thin. Wishing you the best in therapy and life - hope you find more balance/harmony soon.
I honestly always love your content. It really does have an impact on me. Sometimes I don't even realize how mean I am to myself until you share something that hits home.
This weekend is a VERY exciting weekend for me. For the past 3 years I have lived (with my now husband and kids 8 & almost 2) in such a dumpy apartment. I hated it but it was a roof over our head. My husband and I have worked very hard together-especially the last year- to get out of this place. From being burglarized to the cost of over 3,000 (U.S. Dollars) to a car break in, a second car break in AND theft, and an attempted arson....
This weekend it finally is a closed chapter. We worked our butts off to earn ourselves higher wages to qualify for am amazing new apartment! (living in Washington State, USA is SO painfully expensive. My run down apartment was 1600.00 a month with a planned price hike to 1800.00 in Dec. For a 2 bed.)
Our new place has more space, gated, security, and it's not old and broken down. I am really just so proud of us. That apartment served its purpose but I have proudly done a lot of hard work and growing to be able to shut that door!!! And I'm just so damn happy.
That sounds wonderful and exciting for your family! I wish you the best in your safer and more spacious apartment - hope you are enjoying the process of moving in and making it homey.
Desiree this is such beautiful news!! I am so pleased for you all. I hope you get to soak in every precious moment of being in that new space and making it feel like home. Well done you 💜💜
Hi Megan!
This is only my second MJC mail, But I’ve really come to look forward to them plopping into my inbox. I’ve followed you for years and you just offer me comfort. Comfort to be authentically me even when it feels hard.
In my life at the moment my schedule is hella busy. I’m working full time and studying full time, so hearing your message of not doing it all speaks to me! It’s a great privilege to do both those things but I sometimes feel I’m missing out.
Thank you for leaving this comment and giving me some comfort back on a dark rainy evening in London! I really do appreciate getting to be part of your journey in this way over the years 💜 sounds like you are doing a LOT, like more than enough. go easy 🤗
Hey Megan, I’m a recent subscriber after my wonderful lil sis sent me your IG. I was having a big dilemma about my own views on weight and body image after being a member of a weight watchers for three years 😬 The way it shaped my thinking and made me adopt all these habits that now seem to be a deeply ingrained part of me is difficult to challenge and move away from. I realised just how much I’ve been tying self worth and value to my weight and in turn how that shapes my view of the world. I’ve always been someone who opposes beauty standards but I realised that deep down, subconsciously I have a lot of judgement and shame that stops me from showing true love and acceptance to myself and others. Reading your words and seeing your approach to life has genuinely been life changing for me! Realising the meaning of true beauty and love is really giving me strength to challenge the negative thoughts. Thank you so much for being the change and huge congratulations on the amazing things you’re doing 🙌
Hi Dee, hope you don’t mind me replying. I started Weight Watchers with my mum when I was 17 and then was in and out of WW and Slimming World for the next 15 years. Unsurprisingly my weight bobbed up & down over that time, depending whether I was on or off the points/syn counting wagon. Megan and other body positive accounts on insta have done a huge amount to fix my relationships with both food and self worth. I’ve just finished reading Joshua Wolrich’s Food Is Not Medicine which has been very eye opening too. Like you I would never have judged someone else for being bigger, but I judged myself a lot. Best of luck in your continuing journey of self acceptance and cutting the ties between weight and self-love ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, it definitely is a journey and this will be an ongoing process. Keep challenging those negative thoughts that pop up and ask yourself if they are real. It can also help to say them out loud to someone close to you - my brain is telling me X - and get out of your head a bit. I have a complicated relationship to my body as well - I hope you are able to focus more on how you feel and what your body can do instead of what society says it “should” look like. Highly recommend trying mirror work and some sort of activity that makes you feel powerful and connected to your body (weights, gardening, or yes, even twerking!). Wishing you the best in your self-love journey.
Anna I appreciate you replying so much, such a lovely bunch of humans here 💜
Thank you for replying Helen! Makes my heart really happy to see 💜
Woah Dee, what a powerful message. Thank you so much for sharing this. Helen and Anna are right - it really is a process of unlearning. We spend so many years surrounded by this stuff, unconsciously absorbing it all, so of course it takes a long time and a lot of practice to unlearn it. I'm thankful that you're on the journey now and that I get to be a small part of it. keep going! 💜
Thanks for sharing these lovely updates and thoughts, Megan! And congratulations on all your mega-deserved achievements. It's a joy to occasionally have your voice in my head when I listen to your reflections :)
Thank you Maddy! Fingers crossed soon I'll be able to announce something else that would involve you listening to my voice lol 💜
Ooooh 👀
Well how utterly delightful was that? What a beautiful round-up, thank you darling wonder-full being, and ending up on a delicious one-minute-reminder… I’m feeling beautifully satiated by your cosiness 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰!!!!
I’m so inspired by you and everything you do and stand for. I recently started dating women and seeing the prideful content you post makes me feel more comfortable in my own sexuality. I also started twerking a few months ago, my pole instructor recommended a class to me and then I started seeing your twerk content and felt more inspired to keep it up cuz I want to get goooood at it. I LOVE IT.
I saw Lizzo last night! I almost cried being so close to her. She is an absolute God. I felt so proud seeing the big grrls dancing on stage, I felt like my body was represented, that it is sexy and worthy of love and admiration. I looked at Lizzo and thought, the bigger the better! I hope to carry these feelings of love and adoration and power that I felt at her show last with me.
THIS. Every body is free to move in joyful ways and is worthy of love and admiration. Go you, with your twerking - hope you have a blast!
Omg Emma! You are legit living my best life right now 😂 what an amazing update! Yes to everything! 💃🏽 hope you can keep this same energy all month 💜
Wow everything has been exceptional at your end! Thanks for sharing up dates. It's lovely to see with not being an Instagram user anymore. I have started the process to university for a photography degree I have realised my self worth that I can do it and say no to other things and had to end other things because of my mental and physical health. All my focus is on university I am 30 + 5months so no freshers and wild student life just a quiet photographer life. Thank you for your encouragement words and I wish you all the best in your future successes and keep up the updates your amazing xxx
Rachael this is SO badass and incredibly inspiring - I've often thought about going back to studying in the future (without the freshers life lol) and this is really affirming to read. Looking forward to more updates as you get stuck into the course! 💜
Thank you for replying back , If I had a way to share my photos I would but once I'm up and running with a page and through the university process I will be sure to update. It's next year , I'm going to set my photography business in the process too. All those people who are doubting themselves that they can't do it. Of course you can , freshers and fitting in isn't a problem in my world. I'm going to university for myself and prove people who doubted me and said I would get no where in life. It's possible and it can happen the light can be drifted through the darkness. It may just take longer but it happens. Thanks for you support Megan much appreciated 💜
Go you! Literally focusing on what matters and letting everything else fall outside of the frame. I hope you are enjoying photography and excited about your classes. Wishing you all the best.
Thank you so so much for your comment it is really lovely for you to say that. It's next year but plenty photography In the mean time , I will share my photography page when I make one I'm sure, I hope things ate manageable for you and the same goes enjoy what makes you happy!
That just leaves more time to build anticipation then! It’s so important to have a creative outlet and take time to do something you enjoy. My partner does photography (self taught and NOT a day job) and has been involved in a local group that meets up to do shoots and projects. I highly recommend something similar if there’s a casual meet up in your area, that way you can get plenty of shooting in before school :)
I've been doing photography almost 4 and a half years now , I've done a level 3 already and lots of workshops and I have a little group of photography friends so it's good, university is the next step of my journey. Thank you for your encouragement it will eventually be my Job but still a way off but thank you 🙂
Loveliest and most timely read as ever. Read with a cup of Campfires & Vampires tea, recommended by a wonderful friend - so feeling appreciative and connected all round. Good Saturday morning.
Yesssss 10/10 Laura you fulfilled the brief exactly! 😉💜
Hi Megan! This was so lovely to read, you always help me maintain a sense of normalcy and reality somehow. Not much has been going on in my life except that law school is kicking my fine ass. I'm also finally traveling soon to meet my long-distance partner and I cannot wait!!! If you ever feel comfortable sharing relationship tips or just fun date ideas, I would love to hear from you :)
Wow, very exciting to meet up with your partner! I hope you have safe travels and a lovely visit - might I suggest spending some time outdoors, doing a project together, or cooking if either of you enjoy it? I’m not long distance but travel for work, and when I am home it’s nice to spend quality time connecting with my partner walking in nature or building something rather than out to eat (expensive and loud) or seeing a movie (same). When we travel together I try and find something memorable or novel to do - atlas obscura has helped. If there are any galleries or events nearby that might be a nice outing but I imagine you’ll also want to spend plenty of time together catching up! Have a wonderful time.
Well this is a lovely comment Saumya, thank you! And omg meeting the partner! How exciting. My only advice is to pick things that you would actually love to do yourself and try to soak up the experience of the date - you're there to enjoy yourself too, not just to make sure your partner enjoys it! It'll be great. Update me next time? 💜
Sorry I'm late to this one, but as always it's so lovely and uplifting to read your newsletters. Thanks for continuing to share and I'm so happy to see you continuing to grow your career 💜
Thank you Samantha! I'm late to the responses this week so you're not late at all 💜
Hi Megan,
This was the first one that I took your advice and sat down with tea with.
Thank you for the space.
It’s been hectic over here in my little life so thank you for the moment of peace and calm.
Sending love and light 💜
Awh yay! So glad you took a moment of peacefulness for you and extra grateful that you invited me into it! Thanks Alex - you're doing great 💜
What a fabulous update, Megan! You are living the dream :)
Such exciting news on all fronts! Thanks for being you and sharing your joy with the world.
I especially liked your thoughts on "Is it Just Me."
THIS >> "So why the hell would we let them decorate the place with opinions that turn our home into somewhere we don’t want to be?"
I had a hurtful relationship situation that I carried around with me for almost a year that I couldn't let go. It wasn't until I got over it and realized that he was not who I thought he was that I said to a friend "I let him live rent-free in my brain for months." Talk about instant enlightenment! What the hell was I doing to my brain space all those months?! It hurt at the time, but now I see it as a learning experience. And I'm a stronger person for it :)
Omg Michele THIS!! Exactly this. And so wild that we let people live up there who are literally just wandering around, going about their lives and maybe not even thinking of us 🤯 well done you for recognise and starting the process of moving that person out! Those neural pathways can be hard to rewire.
Thank you for always being so lovely and supportive and PRESENT! Sending big love your way 💜
I love the vibe of these updates - very cozy and real compared to the snippets social media shows. Thank you for sharing yourself online and being such a positive force in the world. You already know that you have the right to protect whatever details that other people aren’t entitled to - I don’t need to tell you that. Just very happy to see whatever is in your updates and what you’ve been up to. The art exhibit and twerking look so fun and energizing!
I am usually anxious about Halloween and actually managed to put together something office appropriate: a wrestler. Won an award (three way tie!) for best costume, was very comfy in leggings and a shirt instead of blouse and trousers, and most importantly had FUN!
PS I adore Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee, a book with 52 amazing women from history. Gorgeous illustrations and really amazing stories. Not a children’s book per se, just highly recommended :)
Omg Anna this costume!! Sounds badass. Hope you didn't bodyslam anyone during the workday. And well done for pushing through the anxious feels :)
Thank you for the reminder re. boundaries! Always appreciated, my brain does slip quite easily into thinking things are 'owed' (especially when good things are happening for me, like surely I must equal this out by giving EVERYTHING? 😅) but you're right. You're very right.
Sending big wrestler hugs 💜
Thank you so much for this lovely catch-up! What an incredibly cool thing that you got to interview Elizabeth Banks! I think she’s such an amazing actress and director, and I’m looking forward to seeing Call Jane sometime in the future as well☺️ Also, I’m sooo happy for you and your girlfriend! It’s so wonderful to see the two of you together, living proudly - and so inspiring for other queer people like myself🥰
I also really loved the one-minute-reminder where you talk about how not being able to do everything and not having to be good at everything can actually be really empowering - it’s something I have to remind myself of quite often, but there really is so much truth in realising that what I do bring to the table is enough, just as it is.
Thanks again and sending you so much love🫶🏻✨
Absolute pleasure to be here at the table with you Blanka, we definitely bring enough already!! Let me know what you think of Call Jane when you get to see it (EB was so lovely in person and super informed too). 💜
What a lovely issue this was. So much joy radiating from the email - art date with your girlfriend, twerking with Tom, Queen Gemma and my personal highlight, the book inclusion! Perfect timing for me. My nearly 7yo daughter has the original version of the book (albeit I’ve probably read it more with my son so far, as he’s a little older). However she is getting very into gymnastics at the moment and I am terrified about all the body conscious comments she’s starting to come out with. A dose of body positivity from someone other than her own mum will be extremely helpful - I’m ordering for a Christmas pressy for her right now 💕
Awh Helen what a lovely comment and what a beautiful gift. Thank you. She's very lucky to have those body positive comments coming from her mum - they mean more than you realise 💜
Your one minute reminder hit me hard. I'm balancing so many things right now, and it feels like I'm drowning. Everything is overwhelming, but my therapist continues to remind me that I can't control everything. And now you're reminding me. I think I need a constant reminder that I can't make everything work perfectly, and I can't solve all the world's problems. I can only focus on me and what I can do.
Trisha, I challenge you to let a plate drop this week! I will try to do the same. We cannot hold it all, all the time. We're not made to, we're just human. And we're doing great. 💜
It hit me hard too! Such a hard thing, to focus only on what we can control and let the rest fall away, instead of making ourself responsible for everyone and trying to do everything. I have a sticky note reminder in my work calendar: did anyone ASK me to? which helps me pause instead of jumping in and spreading myself too thin. Wishing you the best in therapy and life - hope you find more balance/harmony soon.