What Evidence Are You Using to Decide Whether You’re Enough?

Photo of a bench overlooking a wide beach, the sea, horizon and headland in the distance. This image of Three Cliffs in the Gower, South Wales, UK.

Recently, I’ve found myself asking some uncomfortable questions. Am I doing enough?Am I achieving enough?Am I contributing enough?Am I enough? And, rather confusingly, sometimes the opposite: Am I too much? It’s a jumble of tricky emotions, but when I took some time to notice and reflect on them, I realised that a lot of them … Read more

The Day I Stopped Reading the Books I Thought I Should Read

Image of books on a bookshelf, spines facing away.

My relationship with books has always been… complicated If you’d told my younger self that one day I’d happily walk home from the library with a bag full of books, I wouldn’t have believed you. I’m dyslexic, so my relationship with books and reading has always fallen into the “it’s complicated” category. As a child, … Read more