I left my bed

I feel slightly embarrassed there even has to be a part 2. I speak so openly and freely in the real world about sticking up for the slimmer girls and yet when i come to my rant, i completely forget about that. Serves me right for typing as i think. This ones for all you slender ladies. I was in the kitchen with one of my house mates, who was telling me she feels like she's too "skinny". I was like, crap, i forgot about this side of things. How much do these women suffer? Almost as much as the overweight or 'curvy' ones now i should think. Since there has been a big movement to stop trying to be slim, we miss out and belittle a giant group of wonderful women who are naturally slim and slender. Its suppose to be under the pretence of "body positive" but all we are doing is shaming a different body type which is just plain dumb. The infamous Meghan Trainors "All about that bass" is a prime example of that. But this is yet again, p...

I am unsure what to do with my blog currently as I am being pulled towards more "real things" to talk about. I don't know what you guys prefer? But I'm being dragged by my emotions more and more away from my adventures and more towards things like psychology, body image, life and the pursuits of happiness. Nothing too heavy then. Whilst I was quite desperate to become a lifestyle blog first and foremost, as that's what I knew best, it started to leave me feeling empty. The joy I once had writing about the things I had done and seen soon started to fade when they became part of my everyday life. I realise now what I was really celebrating was my achievements of overcoming my anxiety, breaking out of comfort zones and emotional boundaries and throwing myself in the deep end. It wasn't really about what I was doing but more about the fact I was, and why and how I was feeling whilst doing it. I spend a lot of time now wanting to help people or make them smile and ...

I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other day on the beach. We were out in our bikinis, talking about if we had a body part we’d change. We both said we had, but that would be telling. I got thinking in more depth about what I would really like to change and why and how our society has created an image we would all like to fit. Long hair, a straight nose, full lips, large round boobs with small nipples, slim waist but with curves… you get the idea. And of course, the ever growing trend of shrinking down to a certain size. I am SO pleased to see that this is coming to a halt pretty sharply. There was a big ordeal about the latest mannequin in Topshop, idolising an unattainable weight for most women. Now, I wouldn't have batted an eye lid at it before, at least not consciously but I think that’s the operative word. Consciously. I realised how subtly I have looked at clothes on a mannequin, thought “those jeans look pretty dope” and then gone into the chan...