Monthly Archives

November 2021

MENTAL HEALTH
DEPRESSION AND ME

This list from Natasha Evans about her experience of suffering from depression is upsetting and powerful, but above all it's incredibly honest. Here she details the ups and downs of her life, how she kept going at the lowest of moments when her mind turned against her, and how she slowly began to recover. …
HEALTH, MOTHERHOOD
HOW MY SON’S TYPE ONE DIABETES DIAGNOSIS CHANGED OUR LIVES

The moment when Emma Oliver's worst nightmare, of her son being diagnosed with Type One Diabetes, became a reality will stay with her forever. What she describes sounds terrifying. Having being diagnosed with Type One Diabetes herself at the age of 21, she knew what came next, and here she explains the absolute devastation, anger, worry and guilt she has been through since then…
INSPIRING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING
CLIMATE CHANGE: (STILL) THE MOTHER OF ALL PROBLEMS

With COP26 now over, and climate change very much the hot topic, Sophie Tait, of Trash Plastic and Mothership, got in touch to write a powerful and timely follow-up to her 2019 list, to offer some hope in amongst the bleakness. …
HEALTH, PREGNANCY, BIRTH & BABY'S
HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARIUM: HOW LOSING CONTROL MEANT FINDING MYSELF

How is it that some people breeze through pregnancy while others have the most horrendous time? I have a fear of being sick so HG is actually one of my worst nightmares, and reading Laura Tweedale's list brought me out in cold sweats. Hyperemesis Gravidarum is completely and utterly deliberating. It's all you can do to survive each day. Plus, nobody can tell you when it's going to end…