Believe In Bumble

“ Robin Wilde is acing life.  After the year from hell, she's pulled herself up and out of The Emptiness, her love life is ticking along nicely, single motherhood is actually quite fun and she is ready for whatever life throws at her. When a thrilling opportunity at work arises, Robin is more than excited to step up and show everyone, including herself, what she's made of.  But her best friend Lacey is increasingly broken-hearted about struggling to conceive, and her daughter Lyla is starting to come out with some horrible attitudes she's learning from someone at school. Is Auntie Kath hiding loneliness under her bubbly, loving veneer? And can Robin definitely trust the people she must depend on in her fab new role? But Robin has her girls. And her girls have got her. Together they can handle any crisis. Can't they? Life is about to throw quite the curve ball at Robin Wilde, and she'll need to make some pretty brave choices if she's going to stop ev...

"I was brave She was reckless We were trouble Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns sixteen Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie - confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives: beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious, and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne’s past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be. But the course of both friendship and recovery is rougher than either girl realizes, and Caddy is about to learn that downward spirals have a momentum of their own." Book Blurb taken from: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/sara-barnard/beautiful-broken-things  This story is told from Caddy's perspective, a 16-year-old girl with a stable life. Her parents both have successful carers and she goes to a private all-girls school.  She is desperate for a signif...

In my first ever blog post (see Introduction to Believe in Bumble and Favourite Podcasts), I discussed the podcast Happy Place hosted by Fearne Cotton. One of her guests was Matt Haig, I had recently read his book "How to Stop Time" so was intrigued to listen to his experience with happiness. It was refreshing to hear Matt discuss his battle with anxiety and depression using language that I could understand. At the time I couldn't recognise how I was feeling as it felt so foreign to me but listening to Matt helped me identify how I was feeling. Being able to recognise how I was feeling was one of the factors that encouraged me to go and get help. During the podcast, they discussed Matt Haig's book "Reasons to Live" . I immediately downloaded the audiobook (read by Matt). Until I listen to Matt's book I never knew anyone felt the same way I did nor did I know how to articulate how I was feeling. One description that stood out to me was depression is ...