This week I turned twenty-six years old: that makes it ten years since I left school; eight years since I left Basingstoke; seven years since I started university. The past few years have brought s o m u c h growth: I’m becoming more myself every day, and although it’s a painful process at...
I’m not sure I can deny it any longer. It’s a massive weight, a burden that I just need to get off my chest. I’ve been denying it but it’s always there at the back of my mind; I just can’t get rid of it, and I really need to talk to someone about...
It’s Saturday morning at the time of writing this, and I am currently laying down as flat as I possibly can on our living room floor, having just come back from a run. I went for my first ever run, using the couch-to-5k app, about two years ago, and I have officially caught the...
Facebook is something that has, annoyingly, played quite a big role in my life. I’ve had an account since I was a teenager, and I’ve managed to collect a pretty big, pretty random selection of friends over the years: from the people that I went to secondary school with, to friends from the various...
A little while ago, I wrote a blog post about how to do long distance friendships well: as I have grown up, I have come to treasure the people in my circle who are really around for the long run. There is such value to be found in these friendships that we are really...
We’ve got a treat for you today friends. We’re hearing from Sarah: she’s a photographer, a musician, Mum to two beautiful girls, my church big sister, and she’s well and truly on team I Am. A couple of weeks ago, Sarah found some journals that she wrote just as she was becoming an adult...
We’ve been chatting a lot recently about university – it’s the beginning of a new academic year, and a lot of us are heading of for new adventures. Last Wednesday we heard from Dee, who shared her story with us around going to uni. But university isn’t for everyone. I asked our friend Pete...
I get mocked by my friends quite a lot – a running theme in my life. “How to sort your life out, Heather-style,” they say: “give it a go; get it very wrong for a while, have your life fall apart for a little bit; pick up the pieces and then do it right....
It’s be beginning of the school year again, and for lots of us, that means that it’s time to head off to university, either for the first time or for another year. If you are already there, we hope that you are LOVING the start of this year – but don’t worry if you...
The year is 2015. The city is Cambridge, the girl is Heather; standing in front of her mirror, curling her hair for her fifth wedding of July. It could have been a comedy film; in one year, I managed to go along to thirteen weddings – from cousins, to old school friends, to church...
