Lauren
Don't judge me
If there is one thing that nearly every client I've ever worked with has said to me, it's "please don't judge me." I always reply in the...
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Lauren
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Insta-scam
As everyone who knows me or who has worked with me as a client will know by now, I am not the biggest fan of social media. I don’t hate...
Lauren
- Oct 3, 2021
- 2 min
To those who hurt us
An open letter... First please know, you do not own us, you do not own our lives. You don’t hold sway over our thoughts and you don’t...
Lauren
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
Please don't leave me
There is a fear within all of us. A truly raw, palpable fear. A fear that often causes us to think and behave in ways we wouldn’t usually...
Lauren
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
Know your worth
What are you worth? When people ask this question, I often wonder…how can our worth actually be measured? In wealth, possessions,...
Lauren
- Mar 7, 2021
- 4 min
Going back to normal - WTF?
This is a follow up post to one I wrote around this time last year - ‘Corona – WTF.’ I think it adequately summed up mine and a lot of...
Lauren
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
When your heart is broken
I will never understand how you can love someone and hate them at the same time. How the person who swore they would never hurt you,...
Lauren
- Nov 30, 2020
- 3 min
Oh 2020, what have you done?
I saw something I liked the other day. Someone had written on the pavement with chalk. They wrote “I thought 2020 would be the year I got...
Lauren
- Oct 20, 2020
- 4 min
Give yourself a break
We work long, hard hours. We provide for our families. We help others when they need it. We care, we share, we give whatever we can to...
Lauren
- Apr 12, 2020
- 3 min
Corona - WTF?
I’m writing this on Easter Sunday. It is amazing, sunny Bank Holiday weather. I can hear music playing (yeah thanks neighbour, I needed 5...
Lauren
- Jan 25, 2020
- 3 min
Let your guard down
Have you ever been hurt? Have you ever experienced the kind of emotional loss or pain that made your heart fold in on itself? Have you...
Lauren
- Oct 16, 2019
- 4 min
Why I'm not thinking positively about "positive thinking."
There seems to be a trend at the moment where mental health difficulties are almost thought to be a choice. That it’s your fault for...
Lauren
- Aug 30, 2019
- 3 min
So you've made a mistake...
I’ve made a mistake. In fact, I’ve made hundreds. Small ones, big ones, easy to fix ones, difficult to fix ones, somewhat funny ones and...
Lauren
- Aug 23, 2019
- 4 min
NHS mental health services - what the hell is going on??
Okay, so I cant be alone in thinking something is seriously up with NHS mental health services at the moment. In fact I know I’m not, as...
Lauren
- Jul 21, 2019
- 3 min
Staring death in the face
There is no subject that people want to avoid talking about more than death. But death, unlike some problems, isn’t going anywhere. So...
Lauren
- Jul 7, 2019
- 3 min
Stop lying to yourself
You are a liar. Don’t agree with me? Well sorry, but you are. And you’re lying about that too. Every single human on this planet is a...
Lauren
- Jun 9, 2019
- 3 min
Relationships. Why are you doing this to yourself?
We all have times when people let us down. When they say they will be there for us but they aren’t. When they cancel plans, say something...
Lauren
- May 24, 2019
- 3 min
Let's talk about sex
Sex Are you having it? Are you not? Do you want it? Do you not? Do you talk about it openly? Do you 100% definitely absolutely not? There...
Lauren
- Apr 28, 2019
- 2 min
When will I get better?
When you are feeling like the world is ending, that you are in the blackest and deepest of holes, that you are so uncomfortable in your...
Lauren
- Apr 10, 2019
- 3 min
Why is change so hard?
Last week, I made a big change. I took a risk that had been hovering in the wings for a long time now, waiting for its turn but being...