Tag: fear
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What’s Your Biggest Fear? Mine Is The Dental Hygienist
Photo by Mikael Kristenson on Unsplash If you read this blog regularly, you will know by now that because I suffer from anxiety, I am scared of pretty much everything. (Spiders, anyone?) That’s why, quite frankly, picking my biggest fear for this post left me pretty spoilt for choice. More obvious choices included ScoMo getting…
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Change, Anxiety and Crazy AF Dreams
There are some exciting changes coming up in my life in the near future. Or at least I’m pretending to myself that they are wildly exciting even though inside my organs feel as though they’re dissolving in acid, something that happens each time I go through such changes and my anxiety goes into overdrive. The…
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Do You Ever Feel Really Alone?
I’ve been sleeping better recently, in spite of the dastardly Sydney humidity at this time of the year – I suppose it’s one small positive to be had out of the daily bleakness associated with giving up caffeine. But the other night something woke me up at 3.30am. You know that feeling, when your eyes…
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Time To Face My Fears and Let It Go
I found some closure watching Godzilla with Kurt at the cinema the other day. ‘Closure’ in terms of facing my fears. Admittedly, two hours of a CGI monster was small-fry compared to the week I’ve just survived with my son. Yes, I’ve been facing my fears in more ways than one this week. Now you…
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Middle Aged Woman Stalked by Sharks In Sydney
English: A Caribbean reef shark photographed at Roatan, Honduras. Deutsch: Grauer Riffhai (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) bei Roatan, Honduras (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It was a good weekend. The sun was shining and the sky was that beautiful clear-blue that typifies a Sydney summer’s day. I discovered that grilled sourdough, avocado, feta and lime is not the gross…
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What’s Your Biggest Middle-Aged Fear?
Aside from losing your car in the car park, walking around with your skirt caught in your Bridget Jones knickers in public or having spinach in your teeth when you’re talking to someone hot, what are your biggest fears now you’re getting older? Mine is still the dentist, in spite of my propensity for ALWAYS…
LOUISA SIMMONDS 