It was October 2014 and I’d had enough. I was single, stressed and miserable – stuck doing work I didn’t love because I needed the money and didn’t have the courage to change. I had dreams – to write a book, to fall in love, to move to the seaside – but I didn’t know...Read More
If only love were as straightforward as other areas of our lives. When we were younger, we knew we had to study hard at school to win a place at university. At uni, we knew we had to get a good degree if we wanted to follow our dream career so we put in the...Read More
Are you positively thriving or merely surviving? That’s the question posed during Mental Health Awareness Week, which ended on Sunday. I wonder what your answer would be. Most of the time, I’d say I’m thriving, but it wasn’t always the case. As I wrote in a blog for the Huffington Post last week, there was...Read More
Two and a half-years-ago, I was single, living alone in an attic flat in Islington and wondering if I would ever meet someone to share my life with. I am now living by the sea in Dorset with my partner, who proposed to me three weeks ago. I now get to call him my fiancé....Read More
Stop for a moment, close your eyes, take a long, slow breath and ask yourself the following question: What is my heart’s desire? What comes up for you? Is your heart’s desire to land your dream job, to meet a life companion and fall in love, to travel the world, live abroad, buy a cottage...Read More
“You’re so attractive and fun. You’re such a great catch. I can’t believe you’re still single.” I wonder how many times friends or strangers have said those words to you. I wonder how many times you’ve said them to yourself. You’ve ticked all the other boxes in life. You have a great job, plenty of...Read More
By Katherine Baldwin It’s that time of the year – a time when we inevitably promise to do some things differently, even if we’re not a fan of New Year’s resolutions per se or we’ve realised crash diets backfire. For some, 2017 is the year to find love. As I write this, some of you...Read More
“Try to imagine a house that’s not a home, Try to imagine a Christmas all alone … It’ll be lonely this Christmas …” So sang the English glam rock band Mud in the 1970s in their slightly depressing number about a lost love – a song that no doubt gets a lot of people...Read More
