You don’t need to be busy. You don’t need to be stressed. Or anxious. You don’t need to prove yourself. Or justify your existence. You don’t need validation. Or affirmation. It’s ok to just be. You can be happy. You can be calm. You can be joyful. It’s ok to just be. You can play.ContinueContinue reading “It’s Ok To Just Be”
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Value of Vulnerability
On Friday 22nd July 2016, it was the 25th anniversary of my father’s death at the age of 38. I don’t often talk about this, mainly because it happened so long ago, but also because it’s only recently that I’ve been able to emotionally connect with the reality of the situation. Thanks to the supportContinueContinue reading “Value of Vulnerability”
Breaking Free
For the longest time, I was unfaithful. To boyfriends/friends/partners/lovers – but mainly, to myself. I used and abused my own body. And not even for pleasure, but for power. I measured my worth in my appearance, and valued myself through other people’s eyes. I would feel the seductive power of the male gaze, and immediatelyContinueContinue reading “Breaking Free”
Why weight?
For many formative years of my adolescence and early adulthood, I was obsessed with my weight. Not in a fashion-conscious, aspiring to be a model way, but in a weight-controlled competitive martial art kind of way, which seemed to validate my obsession and legitimise my disordered approach to eating. The Taekwon-Do categories were based onContinueContinue reading “Why weight?”
Fear Of The Familiar
I can feel it now – it’s like a coldness around my heart. A dull sensation in the pit of my stomach. Intermittently interrupted by nervous flutters. There’s a sense of dread. Of heaviness. A resistance to moving, or doing, or being. I have never been formally diagnosed with anxiety or depression, so I neverContinueContinue reading “Fear Of The Familiar”
Siobhán Kangataran 