Amy Roullier is a British writer and author of Silent Reflections of a Fragile Heart. Through her blog, she challenges the negative stereotypes surrounding being single, while candidly sharing her experiences with mental health, personal losses, and the complex, often misunderstood realities of adulthood.
Here’s to women supporting women. The ones building others up and genuinely delighting in their joys. Here’s to the ones being a safe space for their friends, and helping carry their burdens. The ones who give compliments generously and fiercely. The ones who have your back, no matter what. The women who encourage, lift you up, and pick you back up when you fall. Here’s to the women fighting for …
I keep coming across articles that say things like, ‘What not to wear after 30,’ ‘How to dress your age’, ‘The new ‘rules’ of getting dressed in your 30s,’ ‘Things to stop wearing after…’ But seriously, who makes these rules? This is not the 1950s and I’m not dead yet, so I’m wearing whatever makes me feel good. Clothing that absolutely feels right to me. Because finally at 37, I …
Periods. Yep, I said it. I’m slightly uneasy writing it, you’re probably a little uncomfortable reading it. But it is a totally natural process. Although one that somehow elicits these feelings of being wrong, shameful, or like you’re speaking out of turn for just mentioning the ‘P’ word out loud. So why am I writing about menstruation at all if it’s such a shameful and taboo subject? Because period-shame is …
Recently I was driving to the South West of England alone, when two men in a van began honking and waving, trying to distract me along the motorway. They were smiling and laughing as they mirrored my speed. Maybe to them it was a joke. Possibly a desire to compliment me, show a little interest or a way of catcalling. I should be flattered, shouldn’t I? I’m nearly 40 years …
Being a single woman in her 30s is a weird place to be. There’s like a pariah status that comes with the territory. Other people have made my being single feel like a curse at times. Because a single woman, especially an older single woman, is apparently all kinds of crazy! And it’s for this very reason that I’ve sometimes struggled myself with the concept of being single. The single …
This is a guest blog by Lisa Holmes: Chances are, if you are reading this you could be in your 30’s and thinking, “No, I’ve never thought about the menopause.” I hadn’t either. Before all of this I had never even heard of the term peri-menopause. Until I was in my late 30’s and various symptoms and ailments (some very odd) were beginning to appear. And now I’ve just celebrated my …
Last year my boss (who is also a woman) ended a virtual meeting by saying, “This comment is for the ladies on this call. Stop. Apologising.” She said it because I’d apologised numerous times for the basic look of my PowerPoint slides. Another female colleague had apologised for explaining what they were there to explain in great detail. The third, as they thought the subjects they were bringing to the …
Are you deciding whether to have children or opt for a childfree lifestyle? Society often presumes that eventually you’ll make the choice to have children, that you will get there in the end. As if there really wasn’t a need to consider or a choice to be had at all. People expect children to be part and parcel of your life choices. But what if they’re not or you’re still …
When I entered my early thirties newly divorced and freshly single, being on my own seemed to carry this automatic notion that I was failing at life. I felt I should be miserable with my single situation because there seemed this instant pity the moment I told anyone that I was single in my thirties. All those sympathetic looks and, “Don’t worry, you’ll find someone soon,” style conversations started to …
