I had started my activism anonymously, in secret. No one close to me was particularly interested in intersectional rights, or human rights in general. And so without a social outlet for my feelings, passions, and processing my own injustices, I did what a lot of...

In the first three days of pre-sales alone, our history-making, first-of-its-kind book hit five best-seller charts, which has in turn inspired our publishers to petition the Library of Congress in the USA to add two new national book categories; 'LGBTQ+ Business' and...

Millions of books are published every year. But do you know how many of them are LGBTQ+ Business books? Zero. None. Not a single one. And yet, LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs and small business owners are completely ignored, despite the fact that we create more business and economic drive than any other group per capita.

Have you ever been told or felt that you were ‘too sensitive’? Do you tend to pick up on emotions or subtleties of people that others don’t seem to notice? Do you find yourself avoiding the news, or when you watch or read it, you get overwhelmed or very emotional? The...

Yet another client lamented to me the other day, ‘I’m an intelligent person! Why have I ended up in a toxic relationship?!’ I’ve heard so many people say this with complete exasperation, myself included. The answer is simple; if we are not inundated or at least...

Anxiety as an AdaptationFirstly, I feel it’s important to mention that what we know about mental health conditions is changing and advancing all the time. In recent years the prognosis of borderline personality disorder has changed from ‘you have to live with and...

It’s unlikely that you’ll reach adulthood without some baggage, especially if you’ve lived a little. In my lifetime I’ve dated or been friends with narcissists, love-allergic and codependent people, and some textbook toxic individuals, to name a few. As we mature, we...

When you’re drained and struggling with long hours and a dissatisfying job role, it can be difficult to find the energy required to balance so many different things, and therefore burnout, mental and emotional, can leave us feeling too depleted to complete our work to the best possible standard. And either we know we’re not doing things to the best standard, which makes us feel like we’re failing, or we know we’re doing all we can manage and are frequently criticised for it not being enough. Either way, years of this can end up causing us to believe we’re not good employees or that we’re lacking in some way.