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Author: Leila Gracie

Navigating rough terrain: a message to women facing subfertility

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I am writing this at a moment of feeling overwhelmed and profoundly sad. As a woman facing fertility […]

Leila Gracie September 18, 2019 Infertility, Living & believing, Uncategorized

Conscious consumption: how to eat the way you want to eat

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I recently developed a habit of buying two or three ice-creams at a time, and eating them all. […]

Leila Gracie September 7, 2019 Living & believing, Uncategorized

Paying attention to life’s diversity: a coping mechanism for women facing subfertility

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When you’ve not been able to have a child, it sometimes feels like not a moment goes by […]

Leila Gracie August 27, 2019 Infertility, Living & believing

How to run towards danger: taking charge of your situational anxiety

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I have a situational anxiety problem, related to any kind of performative speaking at work – talking in […]

Leila Gracie March 28, 2019 Living & believing, Psychological wellbeing

How to undermine the logic of an anxiety disorder

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I have lived with an anxiety problem for 18 years. It began in early adulthood at a time […]

Leila Gracie March 23, 2019 Living & believing, Psychological wellbeing

Real Hot Chocolate – best recipe

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I like ‘real’ hot chocolate – the melted chocolate in milk type – but then I had the […]

Leila Gracie March 17, 2019 Food, Out & about

You don’t have to believe the Michael Jackson allegations; just make sure you know child abuse when you see it

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Children cannot comprehend their vulnerability. They may appear to have agency. They may have aspirations and instincts which […]

Leila Gracie March 10, 2019 Abuse, Equality & identity

Bottled up: people who avoid expressing negative emotions

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I have encountered some people, most of them men, who avoid the expression of vulnerability or suffering. In […]

Leila Gracie March 5, 2019 Living & believing, Psychological wellbeing

Coping with infertility when someone close to you gets pregnant

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Those of us who wanted, but couldn’t have, children have a tremendous amount of pain lingering inside of […]

Leila Gracie February 22, 2019 Infertility, Uncategorized

How not to be irritated by other people’s opinions

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Around the age of 9, I had an epiphany. I was feeling frustrated, reflecting on a debate with […]

Leila Gracie February 17, 2019 Keeping calm, Living & believing

Dry January? So what did you learn…?

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For many, this weekend marks the first proper chance to indulge after 31 long days of sobriety. I […]

Leila Gracie February 2, 2019 Drugs & alcohol, Living & believing

How to reduce sexual harassment at work? Remind us that we’re in a protected space

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I watched ‘Is This Sexual Harassment?’ on the BBC. They take a bunch of young people; show them […]

Leila Gracie January 29, 2019 Equality & identity, Uncategorized

Misconceptions about attraction: people at risk of infidelity

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At the beginning of a liaison, before we know that other person on a completely familiar/equal level, we […]

Leila Gracie January 19, 2019 Relationships

Deciding when to stop IVF: 4 things to consider

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For most of us doing IVF, there’s no clear end-point. It’s left to us find our own limits. […]

Leila Gracie December 14, 2018 Infertility, Keeping calm, Living & believing, Uncategorized

Is being beautiful really so great?

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I know someone very beautiful. Her name’s Anna. If I am ever with Anna in public, I am […]

Leila Gracie December 2, 2018 Living & believing, Things we believe

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