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In this powerful list Hope Virgo, author and found of #DumpTheScales, writes about her long, painful and exhausting experience of anorexia. As she explains, eating disorders are still one of the most stigmatised of illnesses, and at times it felt as if there was no way out for her, but she also tells us that full recovery really is possible. …
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MOTHERHOOD AND RAMADAN
This week's list is one from the archives, from Nilly Dahlia. Having just returned to Morocco at the beginning of Ramadan, where we enjoyed being swept up in some of the festivities around Ramadan, it reminded me of the piece and the insight from Nilly about being a Mother during the period. …
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Beth Calvert was diagnosed with ADHD as a teenager and then postnatal depression in her 20s. She speaks about the highs and the lows, the exhaustion and the extremely dark moments where she thought her only way out was to die. What Beth went through sounds absolutely terrifying. And then a doctor diagnosed her with bipolar disorder and her life finally clicked into place…
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The death of a parent shakes your foundations, it tilts your world and throws you off balance. And here, the actor Emily Bevan intimately writes about her journey through the grief, the exhaustion and the heartbreak of losing her precious dad.…
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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. …
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When Indiana Murphy found out the man she had called Dad was not actually her biological father, the foundations of her world were completely shaken. Not only that, but when she made the discovery, sadly both men had died and so it means she will never get to meet her biological dad. And tragically, he will never know Indiana was his daughter…
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Recently I've heard parents talk about the grief they're feeling as their children leave home for the first time. And it's often completely unexpected. This empty nest syndrome, that Caroline Hanson so eloquently explores in her list, is something she always knew was coming, and is exactly as it should be, yet the pain and emptiness she has felt has left her bereft…
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When I think back to our sex education lessons at school, they don't half make me shudder. Although times have changed over the 25 years since then, they've still not progressed as much as they should have done. And it's why people such as Debbie are on a mission to educate, support and empower us all.…