Welcome to ✨ MJC-mail ✨ !

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!

You can see the joy (and the amazing second-hand twerk shorts, hello 😍)

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!

This is Basil. He is a very good boy and we had a delightful, wholesome time together!

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…)

Shoutout random Pintrest person for the design inspo

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?”)

Selena was incredibly sweet (and if you’re thinking of trying anything from Rare Beauty, the Cream Blush is a winner)

And now for the most significant thing I’ve done all month… my first proper holiday since pre-covid! 🌞

Soft belly, soft ‘pits, soft heart ✨

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:

I didn’t even edit in that sunset! I did edit out my nipples, though.

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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