Just blame it on the moon

My latest published piece on Elephant Journal is all about our sneaky brains and how they can deceive us!

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2622522

Why our Brain always Takes us to the Worst-Case Scenarios. | elephant journal We steady ourselves with a worst-case scenario because it's our brain's way of saying,

#2 People who can’t trust, can’t be trusted.
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This is a great piece from a fellow writer friend of mine.

7 Things I wish I Had known Sooner. | elephant journal I spent the majority of my 20s being surrounded by people that I felt completely and utterly disconnected with, only to realise that I was disconnected from myself.

My tribute for Elephant Journal to an enduring Love Story 👑💕👑

An Enduring Love Story: The Duke & his Queen. This marriage was one of choice not arrangement, a marriage of rebellion (some would say) for the queen—one that wasn’t necessarily stamped with royal approval but one that was not marred with reluctance either.

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https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/04/follow-your-moral-compass-and-help-bypass-the-road-to-depression/

5 Tell-Tale Signs we’re Ignoring our Moral Compass & Living an Inauthentic Life. | elephant journal I have found myself, especially of late, taking real notice of my moral compass—and the effect it has on me physically and mentally when I do not adhere to it.

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2754020

Dolce Far Niente: The Sweetness of Doing Nothing. | elephant journal He attributed his success to his ability to tap into this powerful intuition, which is only made possible by doing nothing—through stillness.

Think positively, it could be worse...

Heard this before? said this before?

Is it really helping?

(Great TED talk imbedded)

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/03/toxic-positivity-why-the-positive-police-may-be-doing-us-more-harm-than-good/

Toxic Positivity: Why the Positive Police may be doing us More Harm than Good. Constantly reinforcing the

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2697722

“It Shouldn’t Be this Hard”: Some Tough Love for anyone Struggling to Walk Away (& Stay Away). | elephant journal You say it's love, but it’s one-sided. This is loneliness cloaked as love and you are selling yourself short. Don’t let a half-hearted man dictate your happiness; rise up and

“’Second to the right, and straight on till morning.’ That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland. ” ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2718845

Peter Pan: Great Book, Terrible Boyfriend. Peter Pan man is a grown-ass male trying to relive his teenage years.

Anyone else suffering from Lockdown Loco?

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2708955

Lockdown Loco – how we can prepare to get off the covid crazy train. | elephant journal In a few weeks it will be 12 months since life as we know it stopped, 12 months of being parted from our loved ones, 12 months with no social interactions, 12 months of watching the news religiously, ...

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/02/the-truth-about-love-fck-stupid-cupid/

Stupid F*cking Cupid—Here’s What Love is Really About. Stupid Cupid strikes again!

One for the worriers! 🙏🏻

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/02/how-eckhart-tolle-rescued-me-from-my-mind-and-some-quotes-to-get-you-on-your-way/

Worry is Bullsh*t—10 Eckhart Tolle Quotes to Uncage Us. The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it.

Namaste 🙏🏻

Every now and then I watch or read something that shoots me straight in the heart. Ch4s “Its a Sin” did just that. Here’s why we should all watch this.

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2691309

Its a Sin, why this is the must watch show of the year. As I got to the end of the final scene in the final episode I wept, ugly, heart wrenching painful tears, I was impacted in a way I hadn’t been before. I wept for all the loved ones lost, the years o...

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/01/a-revelation-in-the-wardrobe/

Revelations on Holding On & Letting Go as I Clean out my Wardrobe. And do you know how many times I have genuinely stared into my wardrobe and thought about all the clothes I was not wearing? Zilch. Nada. F*ck all times. In all honesty, I have just been grateful for

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2664845

When Opposites Attract and Ignite! – A dance not for the faint hearted. “You think too much” Heard that before, right? Well, I can categorically tell you that every man I have ever been in a relationship (or the like) with has said it to me, repeatedly. In fac...

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2658744

S*x and The City – 20 years on and a whole new conclusion. Can you ever really forgive if you can’t forget? Carrie Bradshaw – S*x and The City, Season 4, Episode 7, 2001. I was 16 years old. Nostalgia leads me to believe that I was a big S*x and the City...

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/12/2020-breaking-up-with-certainty/

2020: The Year we Broke Up with Certainty. So, whilst 2021 looms and still reeks of uncertainty—things will be okay. That I am certain of.

Take off your rose tinted glasses woman!!. but what happens when we can’t?

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/12/rosy-retrospective-the-reality-vs-the-memory/

Rosy Retrospective – The Reality vs the Memory It has been said by many wiser than me that time is a healer… whilst this may be true, I also think time is a little bit of a bullsh*tter. Our minds can play tricks on us – not out of malice, but...

A Letter to Myself on the Days we are just Surviving. I guess you could say I just wanted to check in today as I sensed it was needed.

https://elejrnl.com?p=2643375

Saying I'm sorry... it's not as easy as it looks!

The Art of Apology I'm Sorry. The admittance of wrongdoing, the righting of the wrong, the acceptance of the part you played in hurting someone else and the first step to repentance. Saying I’m sorry is hard wired int...

Lockdown winter evenings are great for productive blogging! Here’s my latest ❤️

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/11/my-tears-ricochet/

My Tears Ricochet My Tears Ricochet The ties that bind close friendships and relationships are deeply rooted. But sometimes they become fractured, sometimes a bond is irreparably broken – and what you are left with ...

Note to self. You are doing good enough.

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2640155

Guilt – the ultimate parent trap Parenting is an honor, it’s a privilege and a joy, its euphoric and satisfying… but what about the other 23 hours of the day? I have been a mother for 13.5 years, a co-parent for 12 years and a l...

Here’s my latest scribble ✍️

https://elejrnl.com/?p=2637756

The McConaughey Effect Maybe it’s the soft southern drawl, that chimerical whistle at the end of his words. The fact that even in a suit strutting the red carpet he still looks like he belongs with the cowboys riding the ...

https://justblameitonthemoon.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/be-careful-what-you-tolerate-you-are-teaching-people-how-to-treat-you/?preview=true

Be careful what you tolerate – YOU are teaching people how to treat you. As a parent I am always mindful of my expectations of my kid’s behavior. Am I consistent? Do I explain to them well enough what I believe is acceptable and what is not? Can I reprimand them for a b…

http://justblameitonthemoon.com/2020/10/30/tales-of-a-30-something-cliche/

Tales of a 30-something cliché I am a cliché. I am the woman I scoffed about in my twenties. I am the person that reads self-help books, buys essential oils, researches retinol creams and have fully embraced the audiobook as an …

Daily struggle.

3 Ways to Deal with Life’s Little Injustices. Unjust situations the hardest to deal with from a moral, emotional and psychological perspective.

http://justblameitonthemoon.com/2020/10/24/the-story-we-tell-ourselves/

The story we tell ourselves Here’s the scene, you have just been on an amazing date, great person, loads of chemistry, signs are right. Get home, send a text… okay, so no immediate reply, that’s okay… an hour later, maybe he’…

Not often I read something that I can hand on heart say has impacted me as much as reading, Daring Greatly by Brene Brown has. But whoaaaaaa did her words jump from the pages and punch me in the face.

Here is what happened when I spent the week with her.

https://justblameitonthemoon.com/2020/10/05/my-week-with-brene/

My week with Brené I am late to the Brené Brown party… I know. I’ve not been living in a hole; I’ve just been elsewhere. I have seen quotes and passages before; I recognized her name – but that’s as far as it went. …

https://elejrnl.com?p=2604837

I reject your acceptance As humans we need acceptance, we crave validation, we desire acknowledgement and feed on people’s affirmations. I would like to say, I don't, that people’s opinions bear no weight on my decisions ...

The (not so instant)pursuit of LOVE The pursuit of LOVE At the tender (ahem) age of 35, I find myself single and a single parent; a lot of my very limited and much needed social time with friends often leads to the conversation of lo…

http://justblameitonthemoon.com/2020/09/10/when-they-feel-like-home/

When they feel like home Connection. It’s rare and it’s beautiful. It’s the “you think that too” and the “I used to do that as a child” and the “that’s exactly how I see it” conversations that spark the flame initially and…

Time Alone can’t Heal All Wounds—there’s one more Ingredient that Does the Job. If forgiveness, healing, grief, love, and acceptance were recipes in a cookbook, they would all have one simple critical ingredient:

Two beers and a Puppy? Kinda like it