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1 year off the pill

Posted on April 19, 2020June 8, 2021 by Nadine Shambrook

A year ago I decided I would come off the pill. I started using it age 16 to regulate my period in hope that the period cramps would ease and the spots on my back would disappear. 8 years later, after researching eco-friendly ways to manage my period and finding linked articles about the contraceptive…

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies and my own feminist lie

Posted on April 16, 2019May 21, 2019 by Nadine Shambrook

If I’m to be honest, I haven’t been keeping up with my goal of reading more. I have read the occasional book, but so far I’m yet to be in a constant cycle of picking up a new read as soon as I’ve finished with one. In an attempt to start this routine, it’s about…

Worth the worry

Posted on January 19, 2019July 19, 2019 by Nadine Shambrook

I worry a lot. I either say “I’m worrying”, or people tell me I worry. The OED defines worry as: A troubled state of mind arising from the frets and cares of life; harassing anxiety or solicitude. I don’t think I was ever worried before I was 22. Sure I suffered short-term stress during my…

2018 Favourites

Posted on December 23, 2018December 31, 2018 by Nadine Shambrook

I am reflecting on the good things I’ve discovered and enjoyed in 2018, before I feel sad, sentimental and nostalgic like I usually do when the New Year is approaching. My top 10 films of the year will come later, in case I see something in the next week that makes its way onto my…

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