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Body dysmorphia and me
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. I’m increasingly beginning to think that I have body dysmorphia. In recent years I lost over a quarter of my body weight, have people commenting how well I look…
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The day I nearly died
One Tuesday, when I was 10 years old, if I’d gone to school that day I would have died by the end of it. This the story of why and what happened before that. Buckle up, it’s a bumpy one…
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School Bag
School bags were always quite personal things – quite unique for the timeframe during which we went to school but also a reflection of us too. Whilst all my friends had green/blue canvas backpacks that they could write on, I had the one above. It’s been hard to find a picture of one but, eventually,…
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Preparing for my sabbatical
The noun meaning “a year’s absence granted to researchers” (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., which was recorded by 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), a term perhaps suggested by the sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was…
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Travelling again: time to Reboot
Yes, after over 2 years (due to some pesky pandemic), I’m finally travelling again for work. I’m off to Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, for some leadership training, courtesy of Reboot. Like most of my travelling diaries, this is mainly going to be about the travel, food and lack of sleep, rather than the actual training…