If you’re engaged to be married, how do you feel about talking about your expectations for your wedding night? Are you comfortable talking to your partner about sex? I ask these questions because I think perhaps it’s helpful to figure out where we’re at and think about where we’d like Read more…
Long time, no speak It’s been a while! Hi, hello and how are you? Firstly, a little life update from me… I’m eight months into a full-time job role working as Head of Digital & Communications at a University Students’ Union. After 146 funerals it was time to take a Read more…
What is fear stopping you from doing? What does facing your fear look like? The children’s film Sing is one which is always guaranteed to make me cry. (See also, The Good Dinosaur 😭). Always for a different reason. Johnny’s dad finally being proud of him, Rosita struggling to not Read more…
What does having an impact mean for you? It’s been a while but last time I blogged I came to the conclusion that I will never be able to do ‘enough’. I will never change the WHOLE world. However, what I do know is that I want to have an Read more…
Do you want to change the world? What does that even mean?! I’m not sure I really know, but I know that I want to. I have just started having some coaching sessions. (If you’ve never had a coach and you have the opportunity, I could not recommend it highly Read more…
For years I have wanted to write something about sex when it comes to marriage. In fact, I have a lot of saved drafts here on my blog which I’ve never finished. So, I was really grateful to Iridescent for inviting me to write a piece called ‘Expectations for Sex Read more…
I preached last week at church, and I was given the theme of HOPE. It’s a theme I’ve preached and mused on in my blog plenty of times before but last Sunday I shared some of what I’d been reflecting on and I wanted to share some of that here Read more…
The wonderful Lauren H. Brandenburg wrote a beautifully honest and vulnerable post called Finding My Magic which I so loved reading so I’m really pleased to be able to share an honest conversation with her. I so love the opportunity to get to know people through conversation even when they Read more…
I picked our runner bean harvest yesterday. ⠀ This was it. ⠀⠀It would have been easy to have been disappointed that we’ve only had one bean. But, it is a magnificent one and Big bro excitedly shouted, ‘yes! Let’s have it for our tea!’ when he saw it. ⠀⠀So often, Read more…
We’d been through a lot as a family over the years – financially upended, losing our home, a daughter diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the unexpected death of my father. But we had come through it. We were on the other side. My first conventionally published novel was set Read more…