Feb 13, 2021Marilyn Manson’s Survivors Speaking Out Helps All SurvivorsTrigger Warning: Abuse It’s a fascinating and disturbing phenomenon that women often don’t recognize their own abuse until someone else talks about theirs. This is why, when one woman comes forward with their story there is often a tsunami of similar accounts that follow. It is not a case of…Abuse8 min readAbuse8 min read
Oct 6, 2020Thoughts on This World Mental Health DayWorld Mental Health Day takes place each year on October 10. Created in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health, this day seeks to bring awareness to the worldwide mental health crisis, which has been in existence for far longer than I have been alive. I’m usually not a…Mental Health5 min readMental Health5 min read
Sep 9, 2020Children are People not PropsAs if there weren’t enough things in the world to be depressed about, I logged into Instagram yesterday morning and was visually assaulted by the image of celebrity tough guy, Gerard Butler, offering a young, black child some form of nourishment from what appears to be a dog bowl. In…White Savior4 min readWhite Savior4 min read
Jul 31, 2020Why I Became a Yoga Teacher in LockdownI was in Sri Lanka when Coronavirus hit peak “oh shit” and everyone was advised to get on the next plane back to their home country. I work abroad and was two-weeks into what was meant to be a three-month stint away, traveling through Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India, where…Yoga6 min readYoga6 min read
Jul 23, 2020How to Support a Friend Who Has Lost a Job They LoveRight now, people across the globe are losing their jobs in record numbers. You might even know or be one of them. Sadly, I am firmly in the latter camp as the travel company I work for has been forced to close its doors after a successful decade because, well…Jobs5 min readJobs5 min read
