journalling, mental health, self-care
I live with my mom at the moment, and it’s taught me a lot about boundaries as a single parent that I never expected to have to learn. I grew up in her home, but I grew up since then too, and somewhere along the way I built my own standards, my own rules, my…
A month and a half down the line, and I am still in it. Still applying and still waiting on responses that rarely come. Still without anything landed, even though there have been a couple of prospects along the way that felt like they might turn into something, much like the ones I wrote about…
When I hear the word “self-care”, the first thing I picture is Sea Point on a Saturday morning, someone jogging along the promenade, a spa day, or an active, healthy lifestyle carefully curated and posted online; it’s about as far from self-care for South African moms as you can get. And while I know those…