As the 8-year anniversary looms, there is one thing I’d like to say — Trigger warning: Rape I know who you are. For a while you lived in the same town as me, and I remember walking to work once and seeing you at a crossing. You passed me and I know you recognised me, your face twisted and contorted in an expression of…

How double standards and internalised misogyny may have contributed to the death of a movement — Trigger Warning: Domestic and sexual violence. “Courtroom porn and social media have turned innocent bystanders into a mass of mudslingers.” — Monica Lewinsky, 2022 Introduction You would have had to have been living on Mars to have missed the furore about Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, and the latest chapter in…

And the case Lord Lucan failed to answer Who was Sandra Rivett? The third child of Albert and Eunice Hensby, Sandra was born on 16 September 1945 in the UK and her family moved to Australia when she was two. Sandra Rivett spent the first eight years of her life in Australia before returning…

Adventures in nature — Background/History I was raised by parents who believed I should be able to choose my own religion and as a consequence, despite attending a Church of England Primary School (these were common in small UK villages), I was never Christened and never really had much in the way of formal religious…

When anxiety and depression is a symptom of Covid-19 — Introduction I am currently battling my way through my second Covid-19 infection, with my first one being in July 2022. In some ways this one is less severe but in other ways the symptoms are worse. The Dark Covids One symptom I am not hearing much about is what I call the Dark Covids…

Why getting in touch with your shadow self can be healthy — “That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.”- Carl Jung The term “shadow self” was first coined by Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung in the mid-1900s. For Jung, a complete personality includes both positive and negative qualities. Only the desirable qualities are expressed…

Navigating work friendships — What is a frenemy? A person who acts like a friend while stabbing you in the back. They exist in the space between friend, and enemy. Background The average person spends 81,396 hours — the equivalent of more than nine years — at work. Since the pandemic began in March 2020, new entrants to the…

Do you seek to overcome, or celebrate, the fairytale? — I am British, with zero interest in listening to over privileged people complain about their problems while sitting in multi million pound mansions. It does not make them more relatable to me, it makes them annoying to me. I felt the same way about Charles and Diana, when they were…