Whittle Away has been pretty quiet recently, but I certainly have not been whittling away! I have spent the month of October and the beginning of November in India. This has been an absolute dream come true. Traveling to India has been a trip I have wanted to do since I was a child. It is the land of beautiful…
View Post‘The weather’s nice, why don’t you go play outside?’ – Mum, circa 1995 The dreaded words. It didn’t matter the time of year, I hated playing outside. Yes, I know, I was a strange child… What child doesn’t like playing out when it’s sunny? Well, the child who hated the cold and who, at the slightest hint of sunshine breaking…
View PostToday I’m going to share with you some of the habits and routines I have put in place to take care of my mental health. In Part 1, I talked about what self-care means, why it is important and challenged some stereotypes which I feel have been associated with this ‘buzzword’ recently. I believe that self-care doesn’t have a…
View PostIt may be stating the obvious, but I hope if you have got as far as reading this article you will have noticed that a big theme of this blog self-development. And the self-help genre is full of books which encourage you to chase your dreams, go after your passion, live your best life… But what if you don’t know…
View PostTurning vegan, I immediately found myself being asked to justify my decision to everyone around me. Suddenly, every man and his dog had an opinion on what I ate (or choose not to eat). For many vegans, this alone is baffling and isolating enough to turn them straight back to meat-eating. Finding recipes that I enjoyed, vegan alternatives to formerly…
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