Category Archives: Life Experience

14 July 2017 by Anna

The centre cannot hold

There are some lines that get into my blood and under my skin as soon as I read them. I think of them at particular points in my life. “The centre cannot hold”, I think, when I recognise that I’m getting close to breaking point. It sort of comes to me, over and over, starting [...]

Categories: Life Experience, Written By Anna
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26 March 2017 by Anna

Behind Closed Doors: Being There

At Any Other Woman, you can talk about anything. Anything you want at all. Any subject, any time. We are proud to be able to provide that platform for you, it makes our hearts sing. But we do understand that sometimes there are topics that are too sensitive, too divisive, simply too hard to write about [...]

8 March 2017 by Anna

Big girl pants

Oh, readers. Do we have a belter of a post for you today. From the one and only Katielase. You’ll know her as the “cake-baking science nerd triathlete” (as I once described her). I don’t know many women who won’t feel this post touch the most uncomfortable parts of their insides. It’s brave, it’s honest, [...]

Categories: Body Image, Health, Life Experience
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27 February 2017 by Anna

The unexpected

It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? I’m sorry we’ve been gone so long. We fell out of love with blogging, and raising tiny humans was all-encompassing, and and and… But I don’t think either of us ever fell out of love with writing. And we know many of you miss the space that this [...]

Categories: Any Other Baby, Becoming a Mother, Family, Friends and Relationships, Life Experience, Written By Anna
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8 September 2014 by Anna

Stop, Look and Listen

Well. Happy Monday, readers. I know posting has been erratic lately. Aisling and I are both pretty busy and as a result, we’re posting as and when posts come in, and writing when and if we can. It’s working for us right now. I’m sure we’ll be back to a better schedule soon, and we’re [...]

Categories: Life Experience
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26 August 2014 by Anna

a note to my darling daughter.

Well. Isn’t this just packed to the brim of wisdom and truth and honesty. This may be advice for Meredith’s beautiful baby girl but, let’s face it, it’s advice for us all, however old we are. It’s beautiful. Thank you Meredith: as i look upon the canvas of you and me and your daddy [...]

Categories: Becoming a Mother, Life Experience
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28 July 2014 by Aisling

In a bind

When Liz submitted this post, I couldn’t believe how timely it was – I could have written it myself, albeit with more ranting and CAPITAL LETTERS. I know from recent conversations with a lot of readers with young kids that it’s a highly contentious, relevant topic and I know that no one seems to have [...]

Categories: Life Experience, Religion
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12 May 2014 by Anna

The Biggest And Most Expensive Mistake I Ever Made

Morning, readers… And welcome to a brand new week. Today we have a post from the marvellous Naomi Liddell, the brains and talent behind Rocked By Life (if you don’t have this bookmarked, do it now. There’s some beauty on that there blog). This post is about what happens when you realise the path you’ve followed isn’t [...]

Categories: Life Experience, Money and Career
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16 April 2014 by Anna

Self-Confidence

Katy has written us a post that on the surface, is about self-confidence. But really, it’s about much more than that…it’s about accepting who you are, about letting someone else love you and what that can bring to your life, about letting yourself believe that you are more than you see in yourself. Some [...]

Categories: Body Image, Life Experience
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9 April 2014 by Anna

Being Kind

When I was giving birth to Ellie, my midwife was Jenny. Jenny was no-nonsense and very practical, and had steely eyes and gentle hands. Faced with my very vocal conviction that I could, simply, not give birth anymore and I’d appreciate it if she’d cancel all proceedings (a polite way of saying I was hanging [...]

Categories: Life Experience, Written By Anna
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