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I quite often get the comments from people, oh you’re not that big or you’re just big boned. I know everyone is not meant to be a size 10. I am a curvy girl, I have very broad shoulders and “baby bearing” hips. But I let it get out of control. My Emotions play a… [Continue Reading]
I’m all for freedom of belief, faith, culture and especially speech. I also believe in not forcing one’s view(s) onto another – I don’t presume to know the reasoning behind your decisions, don’t presume to know mine. But when a decision you make impacts on the health of my children, then we’re in a whole… [Continue Reading]
This is my heaven….. And i wish it wasn’t. Today I have started to take the first steps in dealing with this. I have lived as an emotional eater for some time now. I guess there are a few people out there who know that I binge, but for most I try to hide it…. [Continue Reading]
Before having children I was the greatest parent on Earth. I knew it all. Why isn’t that parent just giving their screaming child the strategically-placed-near-checkout Freddo Frog? Who cares that it’s only 7am. Loud, obnoxious kid hogging the swing at the park? Where is his equally obnoxious, rude parent? Crying baby on the train? Peak… [Continue Reading]
They high-fived each other when we left. And I respect that. They were free to drink wine, eat pizza and laugh raucously for as long as they pleased while we scooped food off the floor, cajoled vegies between firmly shut lips and soothed the public humiliation of a two-year old who face-planted straight into… [Continue Reading]
Twitter was abuzz with the new ABC series, “The Slap”. I’ll confess I haven’t read the book. Actually, I don’t think I’ve read a book in three years. That is extremely disturbing in and of itself. Sometimes Twitter is so witty, so nuanced and so sensitive to subtlety that it makes me feel stupid, and… [Continue Reading]
September 15 saw mental health and the concept of reaching out to others on the forefront of the minds of many Australians. The 2011 RUOK movement was perhaps one of the most successful campaigns of its type, thanks to some high profile contributors, and the wonder of Social Media. That now familiar logo and tag… [Continue Reading]
There’s been a lot of press in Australia about a 17-year-old girl who got herself mixed up with a high profile, much older man. While watching the carnage play out in the media, all I could think was “Where are her parents?”. I’m not judging them. I don’t know anything other than the story the… [Continue Reading]
