How to make AND keep your New Year’s Resolutions and create lasting change, with advice from experts. — When it comes to sticking to your resolutions, it isn’t just the thought that counts. And good intentions aren’t the only thing you need. Here’s your definitive guide to making real, lasting change in 2023. To make the change, you have to first change your mindset and philosophy to create…

I find it surprisingly hard to write about myself, to tell others about my life, even though I am a storyteller. — I am a writer, poet, actress and theatre-maker. All of those titles share a little bit about me, and they are all to do with telling a story. So even now, I sit here wondering why I struggle to tell my own story. I could be stereotypical. I was born…

During the #MeToo movement, started by Tarana Burke, the set of rules for survivors of sexual harassment couldn’t be clearer. Unfortunately, as is often the case in Western societies, black women struggle significantly to meet these rules society creates for acceptance. — Rape is a subject that people simply don’t want to talk about. Even when writing about my own experiences, I feel uncomfortable, as if I am breaking some sort of taboo. In a way I am, looking at the ways in which we discuss rape victims it is clear there…

To post or not to post? That is the question. — You’ve probably seen the meme: We Should all Know Less About Each Other. But I have to disagree. Social media has spawned lots of evils, but it connects us like we never have before. I set out to find out what social media does for people, and what it doesn’t. …

The words left unsaid and the apologies I couldn’t make… My mother told me: “No one will ever love you as much as I do!” That’s what I’m afraid of. My mother and I never used to argue. I helped her raise my brothers. For 19 years, I tried to…

Join the 30-day writing challenge, and read some advice from experts and world-famous authors! — Writing is hard. I don't know any writer, new or experienced who doesn’t wish at least once that they could just magic their work from their brain to the page instantly. Whether you have been writing for 10 days or 10 years, setting yourself a 30-day writing challenge is beneficial…

There is no such thing as being transracial and we need to stop entertaining this harmful nonsense — Stefani’s back, with a new beauty brand, which is named ‘Who cares’. Okay, it’s not called that but it may as well be. Stefani has shown she is an unrepentant racist and I couldn’t care less about her flop of a brand. Despite not being relevant since the early 2000s…

I told the nurse that I didn’t think I could ever have sex again without flashbacks of my assault…thankfully, I was wrong. — I was raped on campus, and although the first investigation the University did was full of bias and racism, I eventually had my complaint upheld, was given an apology and was awarded four figures of money from the university as compensation for the emotional and psychological pain I was put…