Can creativity help improve our body image? That’s the question I asked myself the other month. They say it’s good for your health, improves your moods etc, so can it help improve our opinions of our own bodies? I’m on a quest to find out in my own personal challenge. The Mirror Mirror, mirror on […]
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I remember the first time I made a tiramisu (bare with me this is a post about cushions) I nearly threw it away. I honestly thought I’d gone completely wrong even though I’d followed the recipe. Once everything was assembled it looked like a mess, a sloppy, cream covered mess, and it wasn’t cheap to
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Can creativity help improve our body image? That’s the question I asked myself the other month. They say it’s good for your health, improves your moods etc, so can it help improve our opinions of our own bodies? I’m on a quest to find out in my own personal challenge. Lessons from Week One I
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Me and houseplants have a love hate relationship, I love them but they hate me…and the way I look after them. Some days we get on and others we don’t. Some hate me so much they die within days of being in my home, and others string it out for awhile before finally saying goodbye
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Can creativity help improve our body image? That’s the question I asked myself the other month. They say it’s good for your health, improves your moods etc, so can it help improve our opinions of our own bodies? The Back Story Brace yourself, it’s not a happy one. I dislike my body greatly. I’m small,
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The rain was strong, so strong I nearly left my umbrella at home for fear that my walk would involve multiple inside out incidents before it would be eventually given up on and I’d wind up becoming thoroughly soaked. In the end I braved it, with the umbrella in hand, living in the hope that
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The smell of freshly cut grass, the waft of lavender that swims its way to my nose after I accidentally brush past it, the butterflies landing on the Verbena as they gently wave around in the breeze, and the sweet tomatoes! Those juicy plump vividly red tomatoes that I can pluck from inside the greenhouse.
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“Oh I can’t do that I’m not creative.” Literally everyone I ever speak to ever The truth is we all have a creative side. We all have an element of us that’s creative, and after many conversations and much research I firmly believe the issue comes down to perception and the perception of what we
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My relationship with creativity is rarely in balance, it is a pendulum, a complete pendulum. One minute I’m loving every idea and thought that’s coming out of my head, then within an alarmingly short space of time, I cannot stand it. In those moments I feel like the good times were just pretend, a fluke,
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