When I tell people that I play rugby I get a number of responses again and again, "oh goodness!", a dropped jaw, or a number of questions about where, when and quite frankly, why? We even ask each other when we meet new players because for women and girls, rugby isn't the most obvious sport…
Continue reading ➞ 15 Things I Learned In My First Rugby Season
Marathon running is more of an exercise for the mind than the body. Making your body run 26.2 miles in one go without stopping is tiring work, don't get me wrong. The real task though is how much can you endure on the day? How much can you dig deep and keep going when the…
Continue reading ➞ Brighton Marathon: The Unlikely Road To The Satisfaction of Socks & Sandals
There’s all sorts of bugs to be caught as we go through our lives: the travel bug, an influenza bug, the reading bug, and hopefully not the Ebola bug. I’m not sure if I have caught the running bug as such, but I am quite sure that I have caught the "Challenge Yourself with Disgusting…
Continue reading ➞ Brighton Marathon: Hopes, Nopes and Notes
The 10 year challenge shines a light on how much we as individuals have changed but how much has the face of diet culture changed in the last 10 years? In 2009, the same year that I left home to go to fashion school in London, starving yourself skinny was still cool. The severity of…
Continue reading ➞ The Face of Diet Culture: The 10 Year Challenge
If you're on Instagram it's quite likely you will have seen some people going on about RED January. Maybe you think it sounds like another new year resolution fad like: Veganuary (please don't shoot me, I'm an animal too) or Dry January, for those pretending that quitting alcohol is hard for them after an indulgent…
Continue reading ➞ RED January: Active Everyday To Beat The Blues Away
Endings and new beginnings can be emotional times, whether it's excitement for the future or sadness for the end of a really good chapter. There's no time of year when we communally experience this sensation as a planet more than the turn of a new year. Cue the dieting, resolution-ing and lists of life vows…
In the final stage of starting to get active the focus is on actually starting to move. Feel free to move in any way which suits you and here are some lessons I've learned along the way when turning getting active into part of my permanent lifestyle. This stage is called, Becoming the Kinetic Energetic.…
Continue reading ➞ Getting Active: Becoming a Kinetic Energetic
