Day 7: You’re Not Alone – Reflections and Support

September 7, 2025.Reading time 2 minutes.

Hidden Disabilities Awareness Week might be ending, but the reality of living with an invisible condition goes on. Whether you live with fatigue, pain, trauma, neurodivergence, or mental illness — we hope this week has helped you feel seen, supported, and a little more understood. The truth is, it can feel incredibly isolating to carry […]

Back to Skool

April 12, 2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

But this time I want, and I’m willing, to learn. It is fair to say I didn’t do well at school. I didn’t enjoy the formal learning environment or the chosen teaching style. I didn’t enjoy being in a fixed place, looking in the same direction, at the back of the same kids head, half-listening […]

Where to start?

March 19, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

Today I kinda ran a half marathon. Tonight, I don’t even want a Gin. There’s the context for this blog. Firstly, the good stuff. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your words of support and encouragement over the last few months, since I started this crazy-ass idea, this morning before my first official half marathon […]

A Lasting Impression – Post #ConnectingHRAfrica Reflections

September 26, 2016.Reading time 12 minutes.

Back in April, I shared with you why I applied for #ConnectingHRAfrica. Here are my reflections. On 9th September 2016, Ten HR professionals embarked on a trip, the first of it’s kind, to Kampala in Uganda with the sole aim to use our skills and knowledge to support Retrak, their staff and the street children […]

What am I learning about myself?

July 1, 2016.Reading time 10 minutes.

For dear readers of my blog, you will know that I am spending this year, and many more to come, giving back. Whether in a professional capacity, collaborating on all things people stuff, or directly for charity and causes close to my heart. Pay it forward is an incredibly important thing for me to do. […]