A few out-takes from the Mind Media Awards :-)
Monday, 25 November 2013
Latest column: Mind Media Awards, celebrities and champagne - and why life is a gift.
"Even now that anorexia is behind me, I don’t take normality for granted. I hope I never will. Recovery was such a painful process that I feel protective of my new-found health. I’ll continue to talk about it and write about it—and to hell with those who call me a narcissist— because I know what it’s like to be trapped and terrified, dropping below 6 stone, unable to eat, unable to save yourself, your mind falling apart. When you’re at rock-bottom, it helps to know that others have been there too..."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/25/at-the-mind-media-awards-remembering-what-matters.html
"Even now that anorexia is behind me, I don’t take normality for granted. I hope I never will. Recovery was such a painful process that I feel protective of my new-found health. I’ll continue to talk about it and write about it—and to hell with those who call me a narcissist— because I know what it’s like to be trapped and terrified, dropping below 6 stone, unable to eat, unable to save yourself, your mind falling apart. When you’re at rock-bottom, it helps to know that others have been there too..."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/25/at-the-mind-media-awards-remembering-what-matters.html
Monday, 11 November 2013
Should I Stay or Should I Go? London: Love It or Leave It? My latest column for The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/11/the-view-from-london-london-love-it-or-leave-it.html
"I stare at the November rain, the grimy London streets, and the look of sheer stress on the face of every passer-by. Is this what we mean by ‘quality of life’? I know I’d miss all this if I left it behind: I’d miss cycling along the Thames, running in Hyde Park; I’d miss seeing the Dome of St Paul’s on the cluttered skyline. But increasingly I long for space to think, air to breathe..."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/11/the-view-from-london-london-love-it-or-leave-it.html
"I stare at the November rain, the grimy London streets, and the look of sheer stress on the face of every passer-by. Is this what we mean by ‘quality of life’? I know I’d miss all this if I left it behind: I’d miss cycling along the Thames, running in Hyde Park; I’d miss seeing the Dome of St Paul’s on the cluttered skyline. But increasingly I long for space to think, air to breathe..."
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