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Living flat and recovery after breast cancer

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#ShowUs more women who look like me April 3, 2019
Horror vs Happiness March 5, 2019
Weather report February 18, 2019
No tits and a tat January 22, 2019
The one about anger January 4, 2019
What a year December 30, 2018
My year in flowers December 12, 2018
Hip hip hooray November 14, 2018
Breast Cancer Awareness Month October 30, 2018
Choices, choices, choices September 22, 2018

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What a great message for me to see! Thanks @allontheboard I wouldn’t have seen it without Instagram because I haven’t managed to go on the Tube for thirty years due to my anxiety & panic attacks. ✨ I travel into London on the Metropolitan Line and get off at Finchley Road before it goes underground. Tunnels and me don’t go well together. ✨ I don’t remember well how this started but I think I was on a train that was stuck in a tunnel for what seems like a very long time. Panic ensued and that was it for me. No more tube travel. ✨ The thought of travelling on the tube is so scary that I just avoid it which makes it worse. For now I rely on buses & my feet - at least I know my way around London! ✨ I’m starting to think that I may be able to face my fear. But that’s still a long way in the future I think. I’m having therapy for lots of other issues and I trust my therapist so she may be the one to help me crack this.... or not. ✨ If it happens, it happens. If not, then I’ll enjoy my bus trips. ✨ #mentalhealthweek #allontheboard #anxiety #panicattack #underground #londontown #londonbus Posted @withrepost • @allontheboard Panic Attacks. They can be the scariest feelings and sensations in the world. You may feel like you are having a heart attack, choking, about to faint, losing control, paranoid, like you can’t breathe, but, as scary as they are, they can’t hurt you. Millions of people in the world have them. Please know you are not alone. Knowledge is power for defeating them. @allontheboard . . . . #panicattack #panicattacks #mentalhealthawarenessweek #mentalhealthawareness #stress #anxiety #anxietyattack #worry #depression #anxious #panic #mentalhealth #fightorflight #deepbreathing #keepcalm #trytorelax #mind #youarenotalone #allontheboard

Every time I see this photo pop up somewhere I’m amazed and excited. And I get a massive buzz. Not just for me though but for all those women who I’m representing. Flat women, women who are facing mastectomy, women who have had reconstruction...actually all women & men because none of us know what the next five minutes will bring to our lives. ✨ Three and a half years ago I had breasts. Now I don’t. I’ve accepted that and am positive about my body. ✨ It’s not easy though and I’m aware that many have body acceptance problems, breasts or no breasts . ✨ So while I like seeing this photo, I do what I do so that as many people as possible can see that different is beautiful and different is OK. #showus @dove @girlgaze @gettyimages #bodypositivity #bodyacceptance #mentalhealthweek #breastcancer #mastectomy #flatliving #flatreconstruction #ad 📷 @sophiemayanne

@tickingoffbreastcancer asked me to write a guest blog for #mentalhealthweek. I’ve written about the effect that #breastcancer had and has on my #mentalhealth. I hope it will help to make others realise that they’re not alone in experiencing poor mental health. Link is in my biog ✨ #anxiety #anger #grief Posted @withrepost • @tickingoffbreastcancer *Guest blog post for Mental Health Week* Juliet was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. The diagnosis has had a lasting impact upon her mental health and now, three and a half years after the diagnosis, she is still dealing with anxiety, anger and grief. In this incredibly honest and open blog post, Juliet talks about her mental health struggles and how she is trying to move on by talking to a counsellor. Please read and share this brave blog post. It’s taken guts for Juliet to share her story and yet, I’m certain that many people who are going through cancer or have finished treatment, will relate to many of the things she says. Link in bio. @julietkfp #breastcancer #cancer #mentalhealth #cancersupport #cancercommunity #chemotherapy #chemo #cancermentalhealth #breastcancersupport #MentalHealthWeek #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #mastectomy #anxiety

My feet!! I’m very happy because I just cut my own toenails for the first time in about two years! Arthritis in my right hip restricted my movement so much that I couldn’t bend to cut my toenails, put socks on or do up my shoe laces. Now nine months post hip replacement I can! And I can also do lunges, squats, star jumps, step ups , play tennis. This is a very big deal for me. ✨ As an aside, I’ve noticed that my toenails are still slightly yellow. After effects of chemotherapy 3 years on? I wonder how long that takes to go away. ✨ #toenails #selfcare #arthritis #arthritisrelief #hipreplacement #exercise #chemotherapy #chemosideeffects

Fabulous never Retires! I love being associated with That word Fabulous! ✨ Dove is partnering with Getty Images, Girlgaze and women everywhere to build the world’s largest photo library to shatter beauty stereotypes — at every age. ✨ Another video made by @mic for Project #showus. I’m representing the mature woman in this one - not totally sure how I feel about being mature. Although I’m told that with maturity comes wisdom, beauty, knowledge & general amazingness. So I guess I’ll take that! ✨ And my lovely Stanley the whippet also makes an appearance! @dove @girlgaze @gettyimages #realbeauty #representation #diversity #inclusivity #beauty #beautystandards #nodigitaldistortion #women Posted @withrepost • @mic Fabulous never retires. Dove is partnering with Getty Images, Girlgaze and women everywhere to build the world’s largest photo library to shatter beauty stereotypes — at every age.

I met a very special person today @boobless_and_badass We realised that we only lived 10 miles part & so had to meet up. So lovely to meet another flattie & to have been connected by @flatfriendsuk

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The first arrangement of the year with all flowers cut from my cutting patch & garden. Slightly messy but that’s how I like it! #flowersmakemehappy #flowerstagram #cuttingpatch #homegrown #grownfromseed #britishflowers #flowerfarmer #summerflowers #sunnypatchblooms

I’m so excited about my sprouting dahlias. I divided most of these myself - much better result than last year. Supplemented by a few bought from @sarahravenperchhill #dahlia #summerflowers #homegrown #cuttingpatch #flowerstagram #flowersmakemehappy

Only 5 days until Rickmansworth @5kyourway event 3. Saturday 27th April. Meet outside the Cafe in the Park from 08.40 for 9am #parkrun start. Will you Walk 🚶🏻‍♀️ Jog 🏃‍♀️ Run 🏃‍♂️ Cheer 🗣 Think of it as a coffee morning with a difference! 🍰 🧁 #rickyparkrun #rickmansworth #5kyourway #moveagainstcancer #moveforhealth #cancerfitness #fitaftercancer #naturewalk #outdoorfitness

Blue skies days are the best. I have so much weeding to do before I can plant this year’s seedlings. Hopefully I’ll get round to it this weekend! 📷 @sophiemayanne for #showus @dove @girlgaze @gettyimages #ad 🌺 Currently, 70% of women report that they don’t feel represented in media and advertising. You can’t be what you can’t see, so I have set out to change that. Alongside 116 female-identifying and non-binary photographers across the world, we have photographed 179 diverse, beautiful and complex womxn who we believe represent the change we want to see in the beauty industry. Our rallying cry is join Project #showus

The first of my sown Sweet Peas & Cosmos plus Dahlias in their improvised storage crate cold frames. #grownnotflown #grownfromseed #flowersmakemehappy #britishflowers #flowerfarmer #sweetpea #cosmos #dahlia

The sweet peas are growing like topsy. This is 3 days growth. And my indoor seed production has begun. Once this lot have germinated I’ll put them under the lights and the sweet peas will go into my big plastic crate “cold frames”. Seemed to work last year! #britishflowers #grownfromseed #grownnotflown #flowerfarmer #flowersmakemehappy #seedsofinstagram #sweetpeas

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