Hemiplegic Migraine and Perimenopause: The Day I Thought I Was Having a Stroke One minute I was at work, seeing a patient. The next, the left side of my face started going numb and tingly. The sensation began spreading up my arm, and then my speech became slurred. I knew something wasn’t right. I
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You Are More Than Your Body: Why Whole‑Person Wellbeing Matters We are not just a body. And we are not just a mind. We are whole people. As a nurse, I have spent many years working within the medical world, and I have enormous respect for modern medicine and the specialists who dedicate their lives
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Rejection Is Protection: When Life Doesn’t Go the Way You Hoped Sometimes it feels like your whole world is falling apart. The job you really wanted doesn’t work out. The relationship you hoped would last comes to an end. An opportunity you were excited about disappears. Someone you thought would always be in your
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I Was 30 and Convinced I Was Behind in Life I was 30 and convinced I was behind in life. I remember looking around at other people and feeling like they were all doing adulthood better than me. People seemed to have their careers sorted. They had houses. Relationships. Money. Confidence. And I felt like
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The Chapter Nobody Saw Coming I thought following my dreams would look very different. 😂😬 When I left the social enterprise, I genuinely trusted that things would work out. I had no idea how financially difficult the next chapter was going to become. I’d never been in debt before. But I was trying to build
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What If the Thing You’re Scared to Share Is Exactly What Someone Needs to Hear? I nearly didn’t do any of this. I didn’t want to be on Instagram. I hated technology. I didn’t even know how to upload a picture. 🤦🏼♀️😂 And the thought of putting myself out there for people to see was
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My Dream Came True… Sort Of 😂 Growing up, I always wanted a dog. My mum used to tell me I could have one when I moved out. 😂 I always dreamed of having a Labrador. A proper beautiful one. You know, like the Andrex puppy. 😂 Then Luna Came Along When my kids
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I Didn’t Have a Plan. I Just Kept Going. What do you do when you don’t know what comes next? For years, I had been used to having a plan. Then I left the social enterprise. And for the first time in years, I didn’t have one. No big five‑year strategy. No clear idea of
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Sometimes You Have to Believe Before Anyone Else Does Sometimes you have to believe in an idea before anyone else can see it. Sarah and I were passionate about education. We wanted to create more opportunities for nurses and doctors to learn, develop and progress. So we started organising educational events. The profits from those
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For Years, I Thought Something Was Wrong With Me For years, I thought something was wrong with me. For a long time, I didn’t understand myself. I always felt different. My mind seemed to be constantly racing, and I was often searching for excitement or something that would help me switch off. Looking back, I
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