Blog — fear

New Year’s Resolutions – to achieve or not to achieve. You’ve heard it all before… ‘With a New Year comes new beginnings’, ‘New Year – New You’, ‘New Year, fresh start.’ Whichever way you put it, the sentiment is generally the same at the beginning of each year. Whether they are trying to sell you a gym membership, get you on board for a diet plan or trying to convince you to do a wardrobe reshuffle, the marketing angle never really changes. We are not the innocents in this little dance though, it must be said. It takes two, so...

Written by Alison Bell It’s 2am and one must wonder why I am awake. I’m exhausted, yet somehow can’t sleep. My body is aching and I can’t lie still. My mind is fried, but won’t stop firing a hundred miles an hour. I can’t quite put words to the sensation I feel. It’s not fear, not anxiety, not panic, but it is remarkably uncomfortable. I am lying next to the love of my life, in an apartment next to dear friends, yet I feel so alone and scared. What is this bizarre sensation that has washed over me as I...