Make Room For More Good Days.
Practical advice, inspiration and ideas for enjoying the life you’re creating - seeing you through divorce, breakups and life’s general messiness, so you can do it all in style.
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Ideas for enjoying your Thanksgiving holiday solo
If you find yourself alone for Thanksgiving, here are a few ideas on how to celebrate by yourself and create a festive feeling.
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When Life Doesn’t Go to Plan, Create a New One
The life you thought you were going to have might look very different from the one you’re living now. Relationships change, circumstances shift, plans unravel and sometimes you find yourself having to rethink almost everything. But a different life doesn’t need to be a lesser one. Sometimes it’s an opportunity to work out what really matters. Here’s your chance to let go of some of the expectations you’ve been carrying and create something that feels much more like you.
Getting to Know Yourself Is Where It All Begins
Creating a life that feels more like your own starts with understanding yourself a little better. What matters to you? What makes you happy? What are you holding onto because you genuinely want it, and what are you doing because you think you should? What patterns keep showing up, and what might happen if you started looking at things differently?
This is the work of reconnecting with yourself, and it's rarely a straight line. It involves questioning things you've always assumed, recognising where you've gone wrong, learning from your mistakes and being willing to change your mind. Sometimes you'll make decisions that don't work out. Sometimes you'll lose your way and need to find your bearings again. That's part of it.
A lot of what you'll find here comes back to this idea. The blog is full of experiences in balancing the simultaneous pull of relationships, making career decisions, managing a home, engaging in the things you love, and looking after yourself – especially this last part.
Much of the material here reflects upon the experience and lessons of divorce and breakups (two times in life that have the immense potential for personal growth) but a lot of it also captures the ‘what next’ of it all – everything from managing loneliness to figuring out what to make for dinner. Life is made up of the big and small things after all.
Take what’s relevant, leave the rest. And if a blog post sparks an insight, please do share in the comments, I’d love to hear a different perspective and I’m sure others would too.
