This is an S3 post - I received these books for review purposes For full details please see my  disclosure policy I saw a meme once tha...

TRIGGER WARNING: this post mentions child sexual assault and may be distressing to some readers . Tricks has long been afraid of th...

One of the reasons I'm in a funk lately - and not the cool kinda uptown funk you up, dancing with rollers in my hair kinda funk -  is be...

On the tail end of #lungsbehavingbadly v2.0 that saw Tricks hospitalized for a couple of nights, Bobbin coughing her lungs up and me sucking...

I've been having a rough time of late. There. I said it. Um, there was supposed to be a massive weight lifted off my shoulders when ...

Um, help? A few weeks ago I had motivation in spades. Instead of doing 20 minutes of exercise, I'd do 60, and I felt brilliant ...

Estrangement is a strange thing. It's right there, in the middle of the word so you don't miss it, and can't possibly forget. ...

Over the years I have had many different therapists who have each approached me in different ways, using various and sometimes contradict...

For the past few years, on January 7th I send a text, or an email, or sometimes both, to someone to say happy birthday. Every year there i...

Back in May I wrote about all the red flags on my file for post natal depression as part of the One Million Mums in May movement by PAND...

I have become The Incredible Glow-Hulk. Or Glulk, if you will. I know, it sounds pretty shit, but Ima run with it. Run with it as far as a ...

In the last two and a half weeks I feel like all I've done is worry and count, count and worry. Count the number of puffs, doses, hou...

The Trickster and I don't look anything alike. When my blonde haired, blue eyed boy was born it appeared he must have actually been a cl...

There are some things I don't handle very well. ANZAC Day is one of them. I've been in a pretty bad place lately (hence the rather q...

Do not assume that because I am an atheist that I have no morals or faith. Do not assume that because I dislike confrontation that I will ...

Grief is a strange beast. It sneaks up on you. Sometimes, when you think it has weakened with the passing of the years you turn to find it j...

I'm getting kinda bogged down in the emo posts lately... every day I write them, and (almost) every day I relegate it to my drafts folde...

I hate that I ruined an otherwise perfect day I hate that something that seemed so small and insignificant was, in fact, a major trigger a...

Map Guy decided he wanted to stay in a beach shack for a week for his birthday. A week away from the world where my main decision was beach ...

Dear Glowless, Happy Valentine's Day! A little bird told me (no, not Twitter, though it could've been, you're on there so mu...