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Living at Home in Your Thirties: The Art of Overcoming Self-Judgement and Societal Pressures to Put Your Wellbeing First
Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis

Living at Home in Your Thirties: The Art of Overcoming Self-Judgement and Societal Pressures to Put Your Wellbeing First

A year ago, almost to the day, I moved back home. Home-home, as in, my Mum’s house. It’s not somewhere I thought I’d be in my thirties. Due to rising rent, the cost-of-living crisis and generally navigating a post-pandemic world, many thirty-somethings have found themselves in the same position as me, living at home out of necessity. What was once a peculiarity is becoming more commonplace…

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‘I Didn’t Have the “Desirable” Body I Saw Online or in Magazines’: Scoliosis, the Media, and the ‘Perfect’ Female Body
Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis Beauty & Lifestyle Megan Willis

‘I Didn’t Have the “Desirable” Body I Saw Online or in Magazines’: Scoliosis, the Media, and the ‘Perfect’ Female Body

As time has gone on, me and all the women I have spoken to have learnt to love their bodies as they are. But that doesn’t mean the notion of the ‘perfect’ body on social media doesn’t still exist. There are so many women out there trying to change this narrative, and show women with all different body types to highlight that there is not one right way to look. This is what I hope to achieve for scoliosis…

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