This morning I read an article on the BBC news website which is part of the 100 Women project – The ‘Right Amount’ of Panic for Women in Public. It starts with the… Continue reading
“I hate myself…” – this is something I said to myself a few minutes ago while reviewing an interaction I had with someone else. This is something I say to myself a lot,… Continue reading
The other day I was contacted through a comment on the About page of this blog by a psychology student who is doing an Extended project for University on Narcissists/Psychopaths and their children.… Continue reading
Is this a post about astrology? – you ask no one in particular and the air inside your head in general, groaning a little or perhaps kind of excited about the prospect… which… Continue reading
The title of this post comes from a question which herongrace asked during a comment chat on one of my recent posts – The Human Maze – I’m linking to the post just… Continue reading
Do you ever have dreams which you can’t explain to yourself… ones which don’t seem to have any connection to anything you were thinking about or feeling before you fell asleep, which don’t… Continue reading
Have you ever done one of these… . I chose to use this particular maze image because the end and the beginning are on the same side… and you’ve got to wonder why… Continue reading
One of the activities I engaged in most often as a child, which carried on through my teens into adulthood, and still occupies my time, is that of – trying to figure out… Continue reading
If there’s one thing all humans seem to share in spite of all our differences, it’s the ability to hurt. And it’s most likely one of the first lessons we learn about life… Continue reading
Was it wrong of me to be pleased with that… to be momentarily caught up in a shy inner smile of self-pride because someone had appreciated a quirk of mine which often gets… Continue reading
Have you ever taken a personality test? If yes… did you enjoy taking the test, was it fun or a chore, did you have to adapt your actual personality to suit the personality… Continue reading
Have you ever felt self-conscious… . . of course you have, you’re human (if you’re not human, my apologies for making the assumption that you are… and if you’re human but have never… Continue reading
When I first moved into my house, I stated that I wouldn’t do anything to it until I’d lived here for awhile… I was rather pleased with myself for stating that because it… Continue reading
Every now and then someone you know will make a statement about themselves and then pause, perhaps because they realised the statement they made exposed them to your eyes in a way which… Continue reading
Have you ever noticed that when you’re focusing on a subject… you see it everywhere… in everything… in everyone… and suddenly stories pertaining to that subject come at you from every angle? There… Continue reading
If someone gives you a book as a gift… do you think they’re a potential soulmate, someone who has understood you and possibly the way to your heart, or do you think they… Continue reading
Do you fantasise? If yes, what do you fantasise about? Do you fantasise about changing your physical self, living in another body, being endowed with certain abilities and talents, moving to another place,… Continue reading
Do you know who you are? . . Is it the same as who you thought you were, hoped you were, imagined that you were? Is it who you have always been? Is… Continue reading
Yesterday I read two articles on two blogs I follow. The articles were similar in subject – they both discussed the changes they had seen happening online, how those changes were affecting them… Continue reading
Do you enjoy solving puzzles… doing crosswords, sudoku, escaping the room, finding the missing piece of a sequence, putting shapes together, working your way through a maze… figuring out what something means, connecting… Continue reading
Recently I’ve noticed some changes in myself which I quite like and would like to be lasting, but you can never be certain how long a change will last, if it will last,… Continue reading
The title of this post is a slightly altered version of a statement made in the lyrics of a song – Invincible by Pat Benatar (excerpt from lyrics posted below)- which I was… Continue reading
Arguments were a big part of my family of origin. Growing up the air I breathed was electric and heavy with human storms brewing, breaking, and never truly subsiding because no one ever… Continue reading
For those who are curious by nature, pretty much every conversation is going to be from the get go or become after a seemingly normal and comfortable start… awkward. At some point you,… Continue reading
The title of this post doesn’t refer to me… although there have been times in my life when I felt exactly like that because life, and the experiences held therein, can make a… Continue reading
The other day I had a song stuck on repeat in my head, it had been used briefly in a TV show I was watching the night before, but it didn’t start haunting… Continue reading
Like with most of my posts I’m going to jump around from subject to subject, go off on tangents, ramble seemingly randomly, babble about myself, and so on… if you haven’t got the… Continue reading
For the last couple of nights I’ve been watching back-to-back episodes of Season 2 of Sense8… . . I almost didn’t bother with Season 2, even though I loved Season 1 and think… Continue reading
Years ago I read an opinion which stuck with me, as opinions sometimes do… this wasn’t one of those opinions which stick with you because they strike a nerve, it didn’t hurt or… Continue reading
Today started off with bright blue sky and radiant sunshine… it was scorchio even though this is England (summer is not supposed to be summery here) and early in the morning… but then… Continue reading
