Category Archives: Self-Acceptance

Posts about accepting ourselves just as we are

Dirty Dancing has a lot to answer for …

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Katherine Baldwin

… and it’s not all about Patrick Swayze. Although he’s got a lot to do with it. I was 16 when the film came out (27 years ago!) and, I reckon, more impressionable than your average teenager. A group of … Continue reading →

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What’s your truth?

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Katherine Baldwin

How do we know what our truth is? How do we know that what we sense is our intuition or instinct is actually that, rather than deep fears rooted in our distant past? How do we navigate our way through … Continue reading →

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Finding my way back

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Katherine Baldwin

This photo was taken when I was 22. I’d just finished at Oxford University and was about to head off to Italy to drive minibuses across Tuscany for a high-end travel company. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Food is my friend

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Katherine Baldwin

In recent months, I’ve shared some of my culinary adventures on Facebook – my first attempts at making soup or my forays into baking coconut and banana bread – and a few friends have expressed surprise that I got to … Continue reading →

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Looking forward

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Katherine Baldwin

It’s been a while since I made New Year’s resolutions. I decided a while back that they no longer served me – I would set myself unrealistic goals then beat myself up for not sticking to them. In the past, … Continue reading →

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Last Christmas …

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Katherine Baldwin

… I gave you my heart … I was going to call this blog post ‘This time last year’ but I love that Wham! song. It takes me back – to my early teenage years when a massive poster of … Continue reading →

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The other me

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Katherine Baldwin

Sometimes the best blogs are the ones I don’t post – at least not immediately. I wrote the below blog (the indented paragraphs) seven days ago, aside from a bit of tidying up today. I wasn’t going to post it … Continue reading →

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Cultivating compassion

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Katherine Baldwin

I just starting rereading my last blog post and I couldn’t get to the end, so if you did, congratulations and thanks for staying with me! But I’m thinking that perhaps it’d be good to write shorter posts, but blog … Continue reading →

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Baking my way back

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Katherine Baldwin

It’s been more than three weeks since I’ve posted on this blog and I’m hoping you’ve all been having such a wonderful summer that you haven’t noticed my absence. If you have, you may have been thinking I’ve been having … Continue reading →

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A life that matters

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Katherine Baldwin

What would you do if you believed your life really mattered? I asked myself this the other day while sat on a striped deckchair outside Foyles bookshop on London’s vibrant South Bank. It was early evening and I’d nipped into … Continue reading →

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