Life Is Good - I Am Blessed

Some of you may recall I used to volunteer with a local charity/community group, volunteering with them in a number of ways, and even holding a chair on the committee group, as well as being their PR and Social Media Manager. Sadly due to personal reasons beyond my control I had to give up my roles…

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An Update on Unique Young Mum

Hello everyone, well to everyone who is still a subscriber/visitor that is. Thank you for sticking around whilst I've been very distant! Life got busy, life got messy and life has changed a LOT! However, I'm back with my old positive mindset! Happy, skippy and so damn jolly!

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Calling A Break on Friendships

If 2020 has taught us anything - it's taught us life is too short, so why am I writing a post about taking a break on friendships? Sometimes, we need to put ourselves first, because when we're putting so many others in front of ourselves, our own lives start spiralling out of control.

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Lessons Learnt During This Situation.

No one could have predicted 2020, and the storm it has brewed up. A worldwide situation turned life upside down and made us realise how easily we took so many basic things for granted. For me, one of the hardest parts of this situation has been not being able to see my family and friends as easily …

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2020 - The Year I Turn 30.

There's something that happens when we turn 25, and I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this. Just watching an episode of First Dates brings comfort, knowing that I'm not alone with my thoughts.  So what happens for many of us when we turn 25? Apart from the countdown being t…

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Our Home Education Journey Update.

It's now been 18 months since I pulled Spud out of school to home educate him, and so I thought I would give everyone an update to how it's going. When I first pulled Spud out of school, I thought it would be for a temporary basis, however from quite early on, I realised home education was …

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My Take On New Year Resolutions

Happy New Year everyone! We are now a few days into 2020, and after a fresh new theme design on Unique Young Mum, I thought it would be a good idea to get some fresh new content up too, and with it being a new year, I thought a new years resolution post is the best way to kick start things off!

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Living With Hidradenitis Suppurativa - My Story.

I've mentioned HS (Hidradenitis Suppurativa) a few times now on Unique Young Mum, and as there's no cure, I imagine I'll be writing about it for a long time. Living with a health condition that has no cure, or no real way of managing the condition, is quite simply heartbreaking.

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Everything You Need To Know About Hidradenitis Suppurativa

I've briefly mentioned on the blog before about living with two chronic skin diseases - Psoriasis and Hidradenitis Suppurativa (also known as HS for short), the latter being a disease I have only just learnt how to pronounce properly, and one I still can't spell without the internet's h…

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The Stigma Teenage Mothers and Young Mothers Face.

If you've been a reader of Unique Young Mum for a while, or if you've ever visited before, then chances are you know already that I had my son when I was 15 , a month before my 16th birthday. Although I'm not a teenage mum any more, or a young mum, I am a young mum to have a 13-year-old …

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