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Alone-ness, swimming.
Writing was a habit I wanted to commit to. I like regularity. But, it's possible I don't need it as much as I did when I began. Or maybe just not this…
Sep 16
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Clare
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Chasing improved wellbeing by changing jobs
I often “have a sense”. Call it intuition maybe. I “just feel” something is up/amiss. That something is often my wellbeing.
Sep 7
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Clare
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August 2025
This is the inside of my head
Some chaotic end-of-holiday musings and evidence of ongoing body/weight rhetoric annoyance.
Aug 30
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Clare
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What happens when we lean into diet culture
I didn't intend for this next post to mirror the topic of the last, but sometimes inspiration/frustration strikes too hard to be ignored. Diet culture…
Aug 21
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Clare
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A rant about how f*cked up The Biggest Loser was
Prompted by Netflix's recent documentary release, I reflect on just how awful one of my favourite childhood programmes (??!!) was.
Aug 17
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Clare
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Fifth new job in as many years
I'm a woman in uniform now. Specifically, a tired woman in uniform.
Aug 10
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Clare
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July 2025
Farewell to my desk job
My days of office-based work are over. Maybe/hopefully forever. And wow, what relief.
Jul 31
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Clare
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Not knowing what's wrong
I appreciate having my neurodivergence diagnoses because they help me make sense of why so much of me and life has felt 'wrong'. But this week, I'm…
Jul 20
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Clare
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At the end of a course of therapy (for the first time ever)
I could cry. I do cry, but about this specifically: getting to the end of a course of therapy without running away.
Jul 10
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Clare
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What I learned from Glastonbury as a newly diagnosed auDHDer
I've done festivals before, but not in the knowledge that my brain functions atypically. I wasn't sure whether this awareness would help or hinder me as…
Jul 1
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Clare
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June 2025
Living at 27
It's the day I leave for Glastonbury, so I am anticipating feeling LIFE coursing through my veins. While trying to accept that the very same festival…
Jun 25
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Clare
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I go to an ADHD support group. Here's how it's been so far.
So used to feeling 'different', I readily feel the ways in which I am not (even) that similar to a group of ADHDers.
Jun 16
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Clare
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