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  • 2025: Arguably The Worst Year of My Life (With Moments I Refuse to Forget)

    Trigger Warning: this post talks about bereavements, cancer, parkinsons and pregnancy loss I’m not going to dress this up: 2025 was a brutal year. Not “challenging but rewarding”Not “hard but necessary”Just heavy, relentless, and quietly devastating in ways that built up rather than exploded. This was the year where joy and grief existed side by Read more

  • Sweetheart, Sit Down – I Actually Do Know Things

    Gather round, children. Aunty Kate is about to deliver a TED Talk nobody asked for but everyone desperately needs. The Art of Being Condescended To While Knowing You’re Smarter Than the Person Condescending You’d think, by now, the world would’ve learned that speaking to women like they’re confused toddlers is not a good look. Yet Read more

  • Postcards from a Bad Day

    Having a bad day is never a good experience; when you’re on holiday it’s even worse. Yes, I’m on holiday if you didn’t know, did I not mention that? I knew today was going to be a not-good day. My dreams have been so weird recently, so there was no way it was going to Read more

  • When My Brain Decides You’re the Main Character

    Let me just say this upfront: my ADHD makes me hyperfixate on people in a way that’s not cute or charming (trust me, I wish it came with an off switch). It’s borderline obsessive, and it takes over without asking permission. When I fixate on someone, a friend, a new acquaintance, whoever, I get all Read more

  • A wink that ruined my walk

    This post is a little different. It is not about me, my ADHD, my mental health, or anything else I have discuss. It is about something that women around the world have to deal with on a daily basis. Today I was walking a familiar trail. It’s well-used, safe on paper, the kind of route Read more

  • Why I Will Happily Struggle Alone Until I Snap

    I don’t know if this is an ADHD thing or just a me thing, but asking for help feels like one of the hardest things I ever have to do. And not in a dramatic kind of way. I mean in that quiet, awkward way where I’d rather take on absolutely everything myself and then Read more

  • Anxiety? What Anxiety?

    I have always been an anxious person, I maybe did not know that until relatively recently, but it’s always been there. Not necessarily visible to others all the time but I live my life on high alert, more so due to trauma, but even before that I had, what are now obvious, symptoms of anxiety. Read more