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How To Live In A Diet Free World

April 27, 2018

We don’t always get to control our environment so we have to work with what we are given

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A friend asked me at 20 what I would want written on my tombstone.
It was one of those random conversations you have in uni when you are bored out of your mind and you’ve run out of ways to procrastinate.
My friend didn’t know I’d already thought about this for 6 weeks a few months before while I lay bedridden in hospital, convinced I wasn’t going to make it out alive this time.
So she was shocked when I replied instantly “she was loved”.
My friend laughed.
“What’s so funny?”
“Why would you write something so obvious? Of course you are loved. That’s like a minimum requirement of life”

What I didn’t realise at the time is I wanted that on my tombstone because for years I never felt lovable. And then years after that I would say I was difficult to love, and then it morphed to “im loveable only if you have me in small doses” and then it was “you have to get to know me to love me”. The reason why I was thinking about this is cause last week I found the words “I’ll win them over. I’m easy to love when I want to be” coming out of my mouth.
Personal development will kick you right in the teeth.
You won’t know how much you’ve changed until you have.

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Is there anything more luxurious than breakfast in bed?

I personally think a person is most beautiful when they first wake up in the morning. And I think that beauty is down to the fact that it is a privilege for anyone to be able to wake up next to you. Can you imagine someone having the joy of seeing your face first thing in the morning? What an honour.

In all seriousness, it makes me so sad to think people would hide their natural beauty. I actually cried in my TedX talk when I spoke about my friend who used to go to the bathroom to put makeup on before her boyfriend woke up.

Get used to the “first thing in the morning” you.
She’s beautiful, even if you can’t see it yet.
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Pyjamas: @thoughtclothing (gifted)

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My office is finally done! (... and what better time to take some photos in it than after a few drinks at midnight - thank you @nadizbozic for indulging me)

This has taken about a year - I didn’t realise how much decorating is seriously not in my strengths but this room feels so much more than that. Since I started coaching and working from home 5 years ago, I’ve been surrounded by people taking bets on how long it would last. I’ve cut most of those people out now but sometimes it’s hard to not hear the opinions or the stats how most businesses don’t last more than 2 years.

Over the last 5 years, my job has changed a lot but regardless of how it’s changed, I’ve always felt like I’ve had one foot in and one foot out, with my brain finding a Plan B every moment that it can.

This office feels like me giving my job the respect it deserves + finally admitting this job is gonna stay 🔥
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Paintings: @sophieteaart
Green table + Marble Shelves: @anthropologie
Prints: @desenio
Grey’s Anatomy quotes: @etsy
(None are gifted or sponsored but in case you want to know)
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📸: @nadiabozic

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You don’t deserve all the shit this week has put you through.
I hope next week is better.

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