Happy Saturday my loves! I hope you’ve been taking the *best* possible care since I last saw you 🥰
Last month I took a little newsletter break, thought about how I’d like this space to feel going forwards, and now I’m BACK with a slightly different vibe (in the same colour palette, obvs 🍭).
Is It Just Me Or… has transformed into MJC-mail!
I realised when I was away that you all, right here (yes you! reading this!) are my most supportive people. You’ve signed up to read my thoughts and feels and you support me as much as I try to support you - you are legit my friends. And that’s how I want this newsletter to feel!
So rather than sending you weekly long-form essays (which I realised I could still write and hopefully turn into something new for you down the line *hint*), you’ll get monthly mail from me with:
life updates (shared with you all before the rest of the internet!) 🌼
a mini Is It Just Me Or… with something that’s been on my mind 🌷
One Minute Reminders - audio + transcript 🌻
Sound good? Let’s go!
Here’s your first ✨ MJC-mail ✨
July was fucking beautiful.
I started taking online twerk classes over the pandemic to up my booty-shaking skills, and since moving to London I’ve been able to go in person!
I mentioned to a friend that I’ve been seriously missing having a dog since I moved (boo no-pets-allowed flats), and she told me she’d been looking for someone to watch her fur baby for a weekend she’d booked away!
I also got my nails did properly for the first time in years (first time ever having acrylics - always thought they’d be too annoying to do things with, but I may be a convert…)
And I very randomly met Selena Gomez. She was in the UK launching a new product for her beauty brand and I was invited to the launch (my mum later said to me “if you’re going to meet celebrities can they at least be ones that I’ve heard of?”)
And now for the most significant thing I’ve done all month… my first proper holiday since pre-covid! 🌞
I spent a week in Turkey soaking up some much-needed Vitamin D with a very special person who’s been helping my heart heal over these last months. We sunbathed, read, ate, drank, danced and let the days float past. It was bliss.
And since you’re my closest people, allow me to introduce the person:
This is Char, she’s a beautiful, intelligent, passionate, spiritual, playful beam of light and being with her is bringing me a whole lot of joy. 🥰
And that’s what’s been going on with me! What’s new with you?
Is it time to take authority away from people who try to steal our light?
Every one of us has someone in our lives who’s told us (or shown us) that we don’t deserve to feel good things.
But the last time I checked, we’re all made of the same stuff; we all breathe and make mistakes and have no idea what we’re doing here.
What makes any other person qualified to decide what you deserve to feel?
Take their power away. They don’t know more than you. They don’t get to decide whether you’re allowed peace.
You decide what you deserve.
/an 18-second reminder ft. something I was thinking while I washed the dust off my plants last weekend…
Transcript: Caring about the small things is beautiful, especially if you’ve been in that depressed place where nothing feels like it matters and you don’t believe that you’re ever gonna care about anything ever again. If you can get out of that, and you can find meaning and value and joy in the small things? That’s not a small thing. That is a big thing.
That’s all for this month’s ✨ MJC-Mail ✨ !
I’ll see you in your inbox again soon and in the meantime, catch me up with you in the comments! And an extra special thank you to my paid subscribers who bought me a coffee for this catch up, I appreciate you 😘
Love,
Megan
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your mail made me soooo happy to read! 🥰 totally brightened my saturday!
i finished my year at uni back in early June and then went on my first girls holiday to Spain AND when I was there wore a bikini for the first time (!), then went to watch the F1 practice at Silverstone. I had my 18th during Lockdown and my Mum had her 50th and we had a party planned for TWO YEARS and it finally happened! SO good to have all our friends and family celebrating and in the same room. And to round it all off we also had a holiday to the USA booked for two years and that finally happened! It was incredible. We road tripped round and did New York, San Fran, Lake Tahoe, Monterey, Santa Barbara and LA. Trip of a lifetime! 💛 I’m now catching up on work for Uni, dancing the night away in Liverpool with my bffs and sitting in coffee shops until I move in with my friends to our new house down South at the end of the month! 🥰 xx
I loved your holiday updates, was so great to see you enjoy yourself, and the happiness you've found with your beautiful new person was radiating from every pore! I've had a tough year but I recently finished my first year of university after going back to get a second degree - juggling it all with being a single parent to two littles was tough. I never celebrate or shout about my own successes as I grew up in a household where bigging yourself up was seen as "bragging" and "big headed" - but with the encouragement of a wonderful new man that I've been seeing since April, this time I DID shout about it, and celebrate it, because it was hard work, and I did it all by myself. Shock horror, nothing bad happened when I let myself feel proud about what I'd done! I'm now enjoying a well earned rest over the summer with my children and boyfriend, who makes me very happy and supports everything I do 🥰