Rachel Pens
Everything is Personal. Including this Blog
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Last week, Clare expressed her sadness about the loss of a friendship. She had wanted to text her friend about taking mayo in for her lunch (the sandwich would be dry) but realised that she could no longer do this as the relationship was over. I thought about that brief moment of contact, the imagined…
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Today I must write something. It is my plan. To pen. When I set up this blog at the beginning of the year I was going to write frequently – to flood the world with my thoughts. Ten months later…..I have space, a space that has not existed while I have ben studying, but one…
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Raising kids can be hard to navigate. We are all always doing our best, but sometimes it can be hard. How do we know we are getting right? Dear Son, Today we had a big and unnecessary row and you left the house, slamming the door behind you. You were clearly angry. Angry that you…
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Many TV shows now carry ‘trigger warnings’ at the beginning of an episode to warn viewers that they are potentially going to feel some sort of internal distress, or in fact, be triggered to re-experience a past trauma. The trigger warning gives viewers a choice whether to watch or not. Equally, the food we eat,…
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Day 2 January second, 2025. The sun is shining, birds are singing, and actually it’s cold. We have returned early from a less than glamourous Airbnb where our dreams of bringing in the new year in a bubbly hot tub were hampered by the hot tub being tepid and mainly self-made bubbles. But here we…
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