“What’s the worst that can happen?” – more musings on how we present ourselves to the world for Alopecia Awareness Month

In our previous post, we discussed how self-confidence is often strongly influenced by our perceptions about what others might think about us. This is an endlessly fascinating topic for me and Rachel because we often swing between feeling totally ourselves, ready to the face the world, through to crippling anxiety about what others will think, …

“Do I need a wig?” – in which we muse about aspects of appearance for Alopecia Awareness Month

September is Alopecia Awareness Month. For me, this is very timely because I have recently had a 'blip' in my confidence about facing the world as a person with no hair. I was interested to explore why this might be. So we decided to record ourselves having a conversation where we discuss this issue, and …

“One more step is another step” ~ Hudson, J

Just over a week ago I was on my way to London to attend the WalktheWalk Moonwalk 2018.  I mentioned this (in what seems to be a lifetime ago) here.  Looking back over my bit of blog, I was talking about the 4 miles training and how I was dreading the 22 mile walk before …