Stop Chasing What Doesn’t Chase You Back
Always the one reaching out, making plans and checking in? P on one-sided friendships, overthinking where you stand and knowing when to stop chasing.
Softness & Strength
Strength isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s resting, crying, saying no or letting the right people in. You’re allowed to be both.
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Choosing Sobriety
Why P chose sobriety after losing her husband to alcoholism. On enabling each other, the lie that one won't hurt, and why alcohol is so easy to excuse.
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Stop Chasing What Doesn’t Chase You Back
Always the one reaching out, making plans and checking in? P on one-sided friendships, overthinking where you stand and knowing when to stop chasing.
Hiding Illnesses
Living with fibromyalgia, ME, degenerative disc disease and bladder and bowel problems. P on invisible illness, fibro fog and what smiling through costs.
Friends: My Queens
The friends you can sit on the phone with in silence, who know when you're not fine. P on friendship after trauma and the queens who've helped her through.
Break the Cycle
When chaos feels like home, calm can feel wrong. P on survival mode, waiting for the next disaster and learning what feeling safe actually feels like.
Grief in All Its Forms: It’s Love With Nowhere to Go
Grief can hit like a wave or ambush you in a song. P on losing someone you love, grieving people who are still alive and the closure you never got.
Sometimes We Need to Sit in the Pain: We Just Don’t Stay There, We Rise Again
Some days you don't feel strong, let alone a Queen. P on hidden struggles, the tiredness sleep won't fix and why admitting you're not coping takes guts.
Health and Relationships: How Chronic Illness Affects Every Kind of Relationship
Chronic illness doesn't just affect the person who has it. P on how flares, cancelled plans and caring roles change partners, family life and friendships.
Self-Sabotage: Why Do We Do It to Ourselves, and Does It Ever Stop?
I'm not good enough. I'm too old. I'll do it when I feel ready. P on self-sabotage, the fear of being judged and why that ready day doesn't always come.
Life Lessons: Learning Something From Every Situation, Good or Bad
SBQ is becoming a limited company, and P spent all day fighting a homepage. Tears, swearing, asking for help and what building a business is really like.
