Loved By Alex

Guilt and shame have their hooks in me. I don’t think I have even fully realised this until recently. Or maybe I did realise but haven’t...

I want to be a better parent, does that mean I’m already a decent one? Having babies is painful in lots of way, suddenly your heart is...

What does it mean to feel like yourself? How do you know. I look in the mirror and don’t often recognise the person I see. Is this...

Merry month of Christmas! I am just a bit excited about Christmas this year. I always love it: the cosiness, the twinkly lights, the good...

Ok, I’m ready to not be pregnant now. At almost 35 weeks, I am totally over it – achy in every way, leaky in (almost) every way,...

We need to get ‘the fear’. Life has been very cushy for the last six years, and it’s easy to stay in a place (physically and mentally)...

As much as I like to think I’m a rebel, lately I’m actually a bit of a people pleaser. A rubbish one as it turns out, but one...

I thought I was good at making friends. Even as an awkward, overweight child and teenager I always had plenty of friends, and really felt...

Depression. Oh that word. Oh that diagnosis. It’s a shitter isn’t it? With all the mental health/illness talk, all the social media...

Hello, hello! Your absent blogger here, checking in with that semi-annual post I know everyone is desperately waiting for! Ok, I’ve been...