Goals I Didn’t Achieve In 2022

A self portrait of Tania, a white woman with tied up brown hair. Tania is wearing an orange top and has her camera up to her eye. Tania has an unimpressed, concentrating face.

Wow, 2022 has been a year, hasn’t it!? I think it’s high time we normalise embracing flexible goals that evolve with our lives, rather than having rigid expectations, that just serve to make us feel bad when unexpected and unavoidable Read the rest

A Year In Burt’s Bees Lip Balm

A star dish sits on an open magazine. In the dish are two lip balms, both with yellow tubing. One has a dark blue lid, the other a dark yellow lid. To the left of the dish is a pot of lip balm, it's lid is a light black shade, with the works 'Burt's Bees' embossed, surrounded by a honeycomb design. To the left and below the lip balm pot are two more lip balms with yellow tubes. One has a green lid, the other a brown one.

Autumn and winter are hard for me. The darker days and artificial lights make life hard work with my photosensitivity, Visual processing disorder and complex chronic migraine Plus, I find the colder months challenging with my complex PTSD. Read the rest

Using Fashion As Self Care

Tania, a white woman with short brown hair, stands in her garden. She is wearing glasses with dark green lenses, burgundy dungarees and a black top with sequin star detail. She has her yellow walking stick in her hand.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve used clothing to express my personality, emotions and even health! At university, my basilar type migraine was particularly troublesome, with me losing consciousness multiple times a day. On days I was feeling Read the rest