Tag Archives: Ageing
Ageing disgracefully
I’ve just put my dear Mum on the train in Bournemouth, destination North Wales. As I sat her down and made sure she was comfortable and that she knew where her coat and case were, and as I asked a … Continue reading
Posted in Childless, Health, Relationships, Women
Tagged Ageing, Childless, Childless Women, Childlessness, Dorset, inner child, Love, Motherhood, Old Harry Rocks, Poole, West Bay
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The Embrace
I speak to my Mum and hear the relentless passage of time. In her voice, I hear my difficulties, struggles, doubts, insecurities and pain, magnified a hundred times, exaggerated by age, by decades spent alone and by the absence of … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged addiction, Ageing, depression, Love, Recovery, sea swimming, self-acceptance, self-care, Spirituality, Women
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Great expectations
In the spirit of honesty, upon which this blog is built, I confess that I spent the first hour or two of my 41st birthday – on Tuesday just gone – in my pyjamas, in my bed and in tears. … Continue reading
Posted in Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged acceptance, Ageing, Childfree, Childless, forties, Women, Women of the World
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From Forty With Love 