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Sunday Times best-selling author, travel writer. ✍🏻writing fiction under pseudonym. ➡️ NOW ONLY ON INSTAGRAM, here:

Oxford/Venice

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Liz Fraser

10 days

I'm on a very long X-break, while writing my crime novels, travel writing, (nearly!) turning 50, and enjoying my single life and freedom. I've just popped up to say that if you want to follow my writing/travelling journey then it's all over here ➡️ 🥰

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5 years

Just went up to a lady with not one but TWO newborns strapped to her chest in a baby sling. ‘They’re beautiful. Good on you’, I said, nodding my admiration. She looked at me, appalled. I looked at her babies again. They were breasts. Just two, massive breasts. Great.

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Before joining the ‘Primark queue slagathon’ pls remember: a) some people CAN’T shop online as they don’t have a credit/debit card b) money is tight for many now, so Primark is an affordable option c) many are buying clothes for their kids who’ve outgrown everything.. Be kind🙏🏻

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2 years

Today I received message from someone saying they hope when I next fall in love that person "beats the living shit out of" me. As a survivor of domestic violence, it shocked me. Tonight I walked along a beach, standing strong. Abusers need us to buckle. I did. But NEVER AGAIN 🔥

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Boiler dead. No heating. No hot water -6 outside, 11 inside 😱 Then checked...low water pressure. Hang on... Get manual. Turn water dial...hear water going in, pressure goes up...try again... I FIXED IT!!!!! ALL BY MY LITTLE SELF!!!!! We have HEATING!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎉🎉👏🏻

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5 years

So I'm in Tesco, it's snowing outside, everyone is cold and miserable, and I'm moaning on the phone about the snow, cold and misery. An old homeless man is standing by the hot food counter and asks if I can help him out. I say sorry, I've got no change. And then I think, 1/...

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2 years

Suddenly feeling a bit emotional. It's been...a lot. A LOT lot. Years of abuse, then All That Followed. Having to relearn everything I thought was true. Living alone. With CPTSD. Unable to work. Solo parenting 24/7. Stuff I can't talk about... But I'm OK. Say hi if you're here❤️

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4 years

I just spoke with a GP on the phone and managed to squeeze out these words: "I mean, I'm not sure exactly, but I think maybe, like . . maybe I MIGHT have . . anorexia. I'm not sure, but I think I should maybe see a doctor about it now." I said that. Out loud. I DID THAT THING.

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2 years

In my 25 years of the motherhood, this is the hardest day I've ever faced. I'm a believer in truth and humanity; if you have a prayer to spare, please say one for me today. I'll take all the love and support I can get. Thank you 🧡🙏🏻

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2 years

My eldest daughter just turned 25 in New Zealand, doing what she loves. My middle daughter, 22, is loving life in France. My youngest daughter, 5, is beside me making sandcastles. I'm a 48-year-old , independent, grateful, happy woman, in love with all her strong little women 💛

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I mean, it’s not hugely useful if you just want to pop to the shop for some bread but .... having leapt over 2m08 my 17-yr-old son can now jump higher than ANY OTHER CHILD IN EUROPE for his age. And 2nd highest in the U20s. And frankly...OMG WOW 🥰🐸

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2 years

Yesterday I asked for your positive thoughts and support, and you GAVE IT IN SPADES. Today I'm asking again. Just to feel you bedside me on this little phone is to have the weight of humanity behind me, holding me up. Normal business will resume shortly. Thank you forever xx 🧡

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3 years

Half marathon finished. 1 hour 24 mins. So nearly a PB. I pushed hard. I sat in that pain. I’ve had such a damn awful few years it nearly killed me but I DID IT. This run was for freedom and this medal will mean more to me than by other 💙 #OxfordHalfMarathon

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10 years

Oh this is rather lovely. #English #language http://t.co/ehz5orSbdz

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2 years

The last 2 pics are from 10 yrs ago. When I lost my health from domestic abuses I'd WEEP looking at them, knowing I'd NEVER do that again. The first 2 are from last week, 21kms into the Oxford Half Marathon, aged 48, single. They mean SO MUCH to me. I can hardly believe it ❤️

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2 years

For anyone who needs to hear this; my daughter will not be trick-or-treating tonight. She didn't last year either, and it was FINE. It's really ok not to. Do what you feel is right, and right for YOUR child. There. Said it.

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2 years

I posted this earlier and then deleted it, as it's so raw. But the whole point is to be HONEST about abuse, trauma, PTSD and the effects on victims. So here it is again, sweat, tears and all. I want to make a +ve difference in this world. Pls do share if you'd like to support❤️

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1 year

We have a winner! First women to finish the Oxford @raceforlife 10km, in 39.45 🔥 I'm a 48-year-old single mum, I've created 4 humans and I am NOT going to be stopped enjoying and living my life by the trolls and abusers out there. You have one life: live it xx #raceforlife

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3 years

This was my first Christmas as a single mum. I was dreading it. I thought I'd cry all day at the sadness of it all, after the shock of it all. And how was it? The BEST Christmas I can remember ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Calm, peaceful, stress-free, easy, relaxed, HAPPY. Phone off, fears gone 💛

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5 years

16. ...I truly believe that if we can open our eyes and minds, keep showing compassion and try to understand the experiences of ALL sides better, there is a far greater chance of recovery, and of lives made better. Thanks for reading all this. Didn't mean to write so much!

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2 years

I've always dreamed that someone I love would take me to Paris for breakfast coffee. Of looking out from a balcony on a quiet sunny morning, knowing the day holds adventures, people, and fun. I just took myself to Paris and did exactly that. It was worth the 47-year wait 🤍

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2 years

It's my last night. We don't eat meals out, we stay self-catering so I can cook at home and I splash out on my daughter ahead of me, always. But tonight I am damned well on the main Piazza, in a café with SEAT COVERINGS, being a princess for a moment. I bloody deserve it 🧡

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2 years

My 19-year-old son just sent me this. Out of the blue. I'm in my kitchen crying the happiest tears. Whatever else happens in this life, I always have the love of my children, and my littlest one has the love and care of her three siblings forever 🧡 (And he CAN mostly spell 😘)

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4 years

I mean, COVID rules are getting a little silly now.

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2 years

This weekend I got divorced 🎉 went unexpectedly viral, and ran in a wild electrical storm that cleaned my WHOLE BEING. From that rain and wind I have THIS to say to you: (Wait for the ⚡️⚡️⚡️!) Pls follow, share, and let's make change happen xx #DomesticAbuse

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2 years

Four years ago on Christmas Eve I stood in Piazza San Marco in Venice as the bells chimed midnight, and was asked for my hand in marriage. I said yes. I truly, and falsely, believed it was meant, and that all the bad things would be left behind at last. Today, 4 years of...

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2 years

I've decided I should probably cut down on sugar, caffeine and alcohol, but I've also decided fuck that shit completely, I've had enough misery and pain in my life so I'm just gonna carry on as I am, enjoying life in whatever shape it takes 🧡

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4 years

Oh, and charity shops (where many of us buy cheap, nice clothes for our fast-growing kids) have all been closed, and we also couldn’t clothes swap/hand-me-down with friends in lockdown, so there have been almost NO options to get affordable kids stuff, for many.

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1 year

English Bank Holiday weekend rules: do ALL the washing; cut the grass; remove clothing THE SECOND the sun comes out; pretend it's going to last more than 20 minutes and organise a BBQ. ☀️ (And go for it, trolls: I'm nearly 50, I'm a DV survivor, I'm happy, I SO don't care 🥰)

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5 years

And I get on my bike, in the snow, and realise how I'd just been moaning about being cold, paying bills etc when I am SO LUCKY. If you've ever known someone who has become homeless - and in recent times this has happened very close to me - you know how FAST it can happen, 5/..

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2 years

Oxford Half Marathon: 1.27.45. At 48, and with the hell I've been enduring all year, the PTSD sickness this week and solo parenting a 4-yr-old, I'm ok with that. I ran for every victim of domestic abuse. Thank you for being with me all the way xx #oxfordhalf @LL_Sports_Club

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2 years

If I could bottle what Sicily did for me, it would look like this. Last year was a brutal adjustment to solo parenting, understanding the abuse I've suffered & the C-PTSD I'm left with. This year, at 48, I REVEL in my freedom, strength & independence, walk tall and FLY solo 🔥💛

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4 years

No no, not PAPERCHASE! Stationery is a thing of total joy and we NEED pretty paper and pen joy more than ever. Oh I just can’t.😩

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Liz Fraser

5 years

Just one person stopping to say hello, bothering to notice, asking if they can help or buy some hot food, can turn a day - and, with enough of these little moments, a life - around. So no. We might not have any change. But we can ALL have compassion. And that's worth as much.

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2 years

carefully. This Christmas I am back in Italy, flying solo, and I won't let anyone hold me back or try to kill my very existence ever again. Salute, from Sicilia. A solo traveller living and loving again. May you find YOUR SELF again, and flourish xx #single #free

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2 years

I went out!! In my old home town, on my daughter's bike, wearing the scarf my mum bought me in my 1st term at university here in 1993, for the most perfect bottle of wine a newly divorced, happily single woman could ask for, courtesy of the gaffer. Thank you @cambridgewine ! 🚲🎉

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3 years

Yesss!! I’ve regained another lb in weight! That’s 5 happy lbs since becoming single. Last year I was told I had anorexia. BMI was 16, heart was struggling. I’m now strong and healthy. Dr Liz diagnoses ‘being extremely unhappy, exhausted & lonely’. I feel bloody FANTASTIC now❤️

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2 years

When you fall out of bed, crumpled and bleary, onto a little balcony perched over a tiny street with old men chatting below and Vespas going past, you have to stand and wonder if it can be true. And then you remember it is. And YOU made it happen. And it feels all the sweeter 💙

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3 yrs ago I sat here, almost destroyed by abuse; self-harming from trauma, shockingly thin & exhausted. And looking after a toddler. Today I'm back; healthy, strong, serene, in control of my life and work and in treatment for PTSD. It's better ❤️ Words:

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6 years

When you find your own shadow, make friends with it, and take it for a walk...😍

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Liz Fraser

2 years

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Hold my hand. We are all stronger together 💛

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3 years

It’s my 47th birthday on Monday, my first birthday being single for 29 years, my book was a No 1 bestseller in its category on Amazon yesterday and I’ve just bought my first raincoat for 6 years and I’m warm and dry HAPPY!! Have a great weekend 💦🥂💛

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2 years

Back in my Alma Mater 💛 It's always a HUGE honour to be invited back to speak here. This one is especially poignant; teaching YOUNG people how to spot the red flags of abuse, gaslighting, coercion etc, and how to cope, can avoid a lot of problems later in life. #Cambridge

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2 years

I suffer badly with complex PTSD, as a result of abuse. My brain struggles with things I used to find easy. My body can't do things it used to do. But today I stood in the sun in my neighbourhood in Venice, met good friends, and realised how much I CAN DO, single and strong ❤️

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4 years

Just me or has this been one of the longest, dreariest and hardest to stay cheerful through lockdown weeks..?

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2 years

I may never be able to tell you what I'm going through at the moment, but I want you to know this; today your thoughts, prayers and messages DID SOMETHING. They held me, they KEPT ME LOOKING UP to that blue sky in Ortigia, which is there for me and those I love. THANK YOU 💙🙏🏻

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4 years

Popped on @SkyNews today to talk about schools opening (or not, or a bit, or for a while...who knows?) and seem to have asked several million people ‘do we really CARE what he says now?’ about our PM. Not quite my usual Sunday afternoon, if I’m honest. #schoolclosures

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This interview was incredible. It really sums up the mood of the country right now, and kudos to this lady for saying it...

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Happy New Year. This year is the year I WRITE again, and lay my writing bare. I will write everything and anything I want and need to write, as I want to write it. Travel, diaries, stories, further recovery and growth, running, womanhood, FREEDOM. Just me in my skin, free to ...

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2 years

One of the MANY joys of my single life is being able to enjoy a Campari Spritz and crisps at sunset, and not be terrified of what's waiting at home. Venice, you're really rather wonderful like this. Salute! ❤️

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4 years

So I’m sitting here, I’m having a little cry...and I hear ‘excuse me, are you OK?’ And there’s a young guy standing there, who’s stopped to talk to me. Turns out he’s a 3rd-year medic, and wants to work in cardiology. What a beautiful human. He’s saved one little heart already❤️

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5 years

and the devastation it can cause. And how FUCKING HARD it is to get out of, if you don't get help. It can happen to anyone. Often a series of unfortunate life events or traumas leads to a few bad decisions, ill health, more bad decisions...and then there you are. Homeless. 6/..

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2 years

I have to tell you, I failed at that. The tears welled up and spilled over. For this one stranger to say that to me, a tired mother raising a child on her own and hitting a moment of low, was all the hugs in the world. It's so bloody hard, but that recognition was GOLDEN❤️

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3 years

Woohoo!! I know nobody cares but...I just ran my first 10km since March (😳) so I’m dancing for joy! 3 months of deeeeeeep depression + injury left me unable to run at all but this week both mind & body seem to be feeling better. If you know how this feels, YOU KNOW! @UKRunChat

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2 years

And on this day, 23/02/2023, this woman set up her own publishing company 📚 I will say much more about the long, patient backstory to get to this moment, what I hope my long-dreamed-of little printing press and publishing house will do for those whose voices are not heard and...

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5 years

The descent into Very Bad Places once a person loses their home - and often with it their job, money, self esteem, confidence, hope and belief in a future - is incredibly fast. And one of the saddest aspects are the feelings of invisibility, shame and self loathing. 7/..

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2 years

Preparing for an upcoming talk on domestic abuse in one of the most prestigious and famous buildings in the world. A year ago I was so broken I thought I'd never do anything like this again. The confidence and self worth I've slowly regained since being on my own is amazing ❤️

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4 years

It’s not very big of me, but I do rather fancy starting some kind of nationally cathartic Monday 8pm ‘Boo for the Cunts’ event, filling the air with our released anger, and bringing us joyfully together in our disgust. (Booing also permitted 260 miles from your house.)

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3 years

We have our first car!!!!We’ve never had a car!! We can now GO PLACES! We can visit the wildlife park and take rubbish to the dump and go to IKEA JUST FOR MEATBALLS and see my kids any time...without hiring a car. FREEDOM HAS ARRIVED!! (We are really quite happy about this💃💛)

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4 years

Fucking hell if I get ONE MORE CUNT messaging me to say how hard my book about being the partner of an alcoholic is for my partner, as if he hasn’t given me his FUCKING BLESSING to write it because he’s smart enough to know it’s IMPORTANT AND WILL HELP OTHERS I’ll fucking SCREAM.

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2 years

Sunday morning after another 10 hours of sleep..and I could go another 10. I've never known a physical response to removed stress stronger than this. I'm not 'tired'; I'm WIPED OUT. Years of heightened anxiety, fear, trauma, exhaustion. Heard. Believed. It'll take a while 🤍

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2 years

Genuinely....I bloody love you lot. I all but abandoned Twitter for a while, a year or so back; but I've found a home here that's HUGELY kind and supportive, and as a solo mum managing it all alone, with mostly no family nearby, your kindness and words have CHANGED MY LIFE 🧡

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10 months

I just ran my first marathon!!!!!! 🎉⛰️ On Skye, up and down hills - bucket list tick! Turns out you just have to fall in love with someone who can run 100 miles and smash ultras and who tells you you will smash it too. And then do it! #running #marathon

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2 years

I've woken to a FLOOD of love and support here after my news yesterday. I'm overwhelmed! Thank you ❤️ This post explains more, as Twitter is so short: Divorce is never easy, but the next chapter tastes sweet already. Lots of life to live and fun to have 🔥

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2 years

Crikey, I put the word 'masturbate' in a tweet and you'd think I'd just spoken the unthinkable. I tell you what's NOT shocking: a woman enjoying sex. I'll tell you what SHOULD BE shocking but isn't yet: domestic abuse. Now back to the real work to change the latter ☺️

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4 years

OK so I wasn’t going to share this but what the hell, it’s nice to have HAPPY news at last: today I bought the house we’ve been renting!! 30 years after I left my beloved Oxford I am officially back. It’s been a f**king BRUTAL 5 years but today our new chapter truly starts 💛🍾

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19-year-old calls: "Hi mum, I'm on my way back to my room after a tutorial - if you're in town, do you fancy a quick coffee?" DO I EVER???!! This literally *never* happens. And it wasn't even a ruse to get cash out of me. Just to say hi. Day MADE 😍😍😍 #motherhood

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7. But compassion, and HOPE for change, must always remain. Nobody wants to be homeless. Nobody wants to be an addict. Nobody wants to lose everything. Nobody wants to feel nothing but shame and hopelessness. But it can happen to ANYONE...

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I'm so glad he's still there. He looks at me strangely endless blue eyes that tell a million stories of hard times, and I KNOW Im going to cry so we hug again, and I give him the hot roasted chicken, and he thanks me, and I tell him to take care of himself. And I go. 4/..

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WHAT THE HELL, LIZ? It's bloody freezing and this guy has no home, and you have, and he wants some goddam chicken, OK? So I say, sure, no worries - I can buy it for you now, if you don't mind waiting while I go to the queue and click it through on my card? 2/...

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4 years

Until recently I was so ravaged by PTSD and lack of self worth after the last few years I starved myself nearly to death. Today I enjoyed Xmas dinner without even thinking about it. I can’t explain how amazing this is. Huge love to those struggling today. It CAN get better💛

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2 years

I wasn't going to post this, but yesterday I was called 'degrading.' I'll tell you what's degrading: Being spat at. Being called a piece of shit. Having your PTSD mocked. I'll tell you what's not degrading: Self respect and value; doing what works for YOU on your own terms🙏🏻🔥

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My 20.32 @parkrunUK looked like this, today 😝

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2 years

I walked to Tesco for bagels because my daughter wanted some earlier, and right there I realised that MY LIFE IS NOW MINE TO LIVE AGAIN AT LONG LAST, AND I CAN WRITE, and I BURST INTO TEARS AND BOUGHT TULIPS because they are as JOYFUL AS I FEEL AND I AM SO HAPPY TO BE FREE 💐🧡

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When I post about being newly divorced I get 100s of messages from men. When I post about absent parents not paying child maintenance and treating their children's mothers appallingly ... those men go VERY quiet, and often unfollow. Just sayin'👌🏻

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5 years

9am. Lorry reversing down a narrow street in Oxford. Workman leaning out of the passenger window making loud "BEEB BEEB BEEB BEEB" noises, as theirs is clearly broken. Everyone they pass laughs and smiles. I think he's just made everyone's day.

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2 years

Got my first d**k pic in my DMs earlier. Guys, just.....don't, yeah? Don't. Ever. I'm still not sure how this memo hasn't made it out there but .... it's sooooooo revolting. Fact.

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2 years

Shoutout to my fellow PTSD sufferers and abuse survivors. I've been home not even 24 hrs and my nervous system thinks it's plugged into the mains, I ACHE & I'm shaking. I'm trying to remember standing here yesterday, in the calm. My recovery is going well, but God it's tough ❤️‍🩹

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No. No and no. The trolls (but let's stop calling them 'trolls' and use the proper term: ABUSERS) will not make me hide away. They want me to suffer. To hurt. To be destroyed. To be afraid. Despite my already lifelong damage. I will stay, with those who are KIND here💛 #PTSD

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Ciao from the balcony. I love mornings in Italy. They start early, and full-on; roads swept, bins emptied daily (plastic, glass, paper, metal, organic waste on different days), coffee consumed on the hoof with chats, and life STARTS. But it's a slow fast. And lovely 💛☕️

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5 years

A couple of things I want to add to this thread, as it's clearly also touched so many of you. I write this as someone who has watched the devastation of homelessness in the love of her life, and had to learn a LOT, very fast:

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I'm drinking a Negroni beside the Temple of Apollo, and a Vespa just zoomed by. This IS Sicily. I love it. It's been an incredible trip to end an exceptionally difficult, shocking, painful but ultimately blissfully FREE-ing year. I am drinking to YOUR HEALTH and freedom too ❤️‍🩹

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1 year

Today I was offered my dream working life in my dream cities on earth. So please forgive me while I look like the cat that got ALL the cream. Because I think I just did 🧡

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8. I can also attest to the fact that it CAN be reversed - given the right circumstances, help, support, and a HELL OF A LOT OF HARD WORK on both parts: from the person coming back in, and the person letting them in. We are all humans. We are all flawed. We can all mend. X

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And he looks so grateful I have to hug him because I always hug people when I don't know what else to do, and he says no, he'll wait while I do my shopping. So off I go round the shop, get all my family groceries, pay...and there he is, waiting at the door, in an old coat. 3/..

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2 years

After yesterday's unexpected and somewhat disturbing online death-wish, I'm starting this day as I always like to: with something that I love - coffee, croissant (or rather 'cornetto' here), the sound and taste of Italy, and a Vespa that kindly went past at the exact...contd..

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2 years

Went for an amazing run this morning with Etna behind me, and made a big decision for 2023 on the way. It's time. I'll tell you about it later x #running #NYE #newlife

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4 years

I got a skipping rope for Christmas and just used it for the first time. I did 4 continuous minutes of jumping up and down and I didn’t wet myself. Not even a little bit. (I’ve checked twice.) Best moment of 2020 right there.

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That went well....! 😆❄️🌧️ #running @UKRunChat @Womensrunninguk

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2 years

Just been reminded by a friend of mine of this poem I wrote a few years ago. It never fails. Use liberally, and with a smile x (Thank you @EranE1980 for your perfect timing!)

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2 years

I've been appointed the new Parent Governor of my daughter's school 🎉 As a mum of 4 who's raised kids in both a 'nuclear family' and as a solo mum, and who often represents voices that struggle to be heard, I hope I can bring something positive to all parents & children there 💛

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1. there is not always, but very often, substance abuse of some kind involved. This makes it especially difficult to help the person who has become homeless, as they also need help to deal with the addiction/substance usage.

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2. linked to this, there is often some #mentalhealth issue or other (or many) which need urgent, professional and long-term help. The person who needs this, is likely to be very reluctant to seek it or accept it.

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