Battle your mind monsters (and win)
This was a cute feature for CosmoGIRL! that I loved writing. I pitched the idea at a features meeting as a way of getting across some genuine tips around body confidence, self-belief and even money management for young readers.
Anorexia killed my son
I interviewed some incredible women in my time at Real magazine. Some were mothers who had been through heart-breaking struggles with their children, and whose strength I have only begun to fathom years later. Talking to Sue and writing this helped me begin to understand the complexity of anorexia as a mental illness. (If I worked on this today, over 10 years later, it would be shaped by much better guidance on responsible reporting of this illness.)
video diaries on living with cancer
Working on this for the Teenage Cancer Trust's magazine was a prompt for me to move from magazines to charities. In my time on teen titles, I'd already seen how resilient young people can be but these interviewees awed me. I'll always remember Jonathan's point about how draining it is to feel you must 'be positive' and 'fight' every day.
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