Disclaimer: Please understand that while I am writing this specific piece mostly for women, I do acknowledge that insecurity is not at all specific to the female gender. The reason I am bulk referring to the “targeted” as women is because, in my personal experience, its women that bear the brunt of pressure from diet culture. I do not intend to exclude or offend anyone. Weight related insecuri...

It’s suddenly got hot in England. Really hot. From having a week’s worth of rain and a cool breeze to suddenly being in a full-blown heatwave. It’s safe to say that many of us haven’t known what to wear with this sudden influx of heat. What’s worse is that it has coincided with the country opening up from a third lockdown. This time last year, nobody really saw a lot of our bodies. We could l...

No words could ever express how POC [people of colour] felt witnessing the death of George Floyd and several other black individuals before him. Not only were they affected as a single race, George Floyd’s death had an impact on the world. Now other countries, ethnicities and races are beginning to try and understand their pain. People are seeing the mistreatment and the unfairness of the justi...

Since clearing out my social media feed, following positive accounts and surrounding my online presence with the body positive movement, I have found myself feeling envious of others and frustrated at myself. Not like before, when my feed was extremely false, but in a way in which I am jealous of how others seem to love their body.  With the brilliant body positive movement being SO great, but...

Hi everyone! This post has been a long time coming and something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’ve been pondering over the past and was really thinking about what advice I would share with my younger self! Did you ever just wish you could have had a glimpse of where you would end up when you were a teen? I know I did, and often still do, but nontheless, here are the main things I would...