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Blogging goodbye to butterflies

Personal essays on growth, gratitude and living gently with anxiety - celebrating small moments of bravery, and what it means to keep evolving without striving for perfection.

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Life lately: Wedding Plans, Warm Evenings and Writer’s Block
28 May 20262 min read

Life lately: Wedding Plans, Warm Evenings and Writer’s Block

I just wrote the words ‘my wedding is in June 2027’ in an email and nearly happy cried whilst sat in the middle of a Costa coffee shop with a chicken fajita wrap on the go. Our plans have really come

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Life lately, 2026 goals and personal growth
7 Apr 20263 min read

Life lately, 2026 goals and personal growth

Well hello there! When I wrote about Dave and I’s engagement, we were still on the hunt for a house to buy and I expected to continue to write whilst we navigated house hunting and wedding planning a

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One frosty, sunny Saturday on Primrose Hill
18 Jan 20252 min read

One frosty, sunny Saturday on Primrose Hill

Our alarms went off at 7am. I woke up excited for a day at London Zoo and went straight in the shower. I popped on a new T-Shirt I’d bought in Zara’s New Year sales and some blue jeans. He reminded me

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her story so far

Life, told in chapters

130 honest entries since 2013 - a quiet, ongoing story of growing up and growing gently. Tap a chapter to read it.

  1. 1
    Chapter One21 entries

    University

  2. 2
    Chapter Two25 entries

    Graduate Life

  3. 3
    Chapter Three12 entries

    Leaving Home

  4. 4
    Chapter Four11 entries

    Mid Twenties

  5. 5
    Chapter Five16 entries

    A year in the life

  6. 5½
    Chapter Five & a half4 entries

    2020

  7. 6
    Chapter Six20 entries

    Late Twenties

  8. 7
    Chapter Seven19 entries

    Turning 30

    Turning 30 and realising I may never have it all figured out. Learning to embrace change and letting go of the need to be perfect.

  9. 8
    Chapter Eight2 entrieswe are here

    My thirties

    Navigating life in my thirties one brave, gentle step at a time.

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hello, I'm Bron

Book worm, coffee enthusiast and overthinker.

I've been writing openly since I was 19 - first about overcoming anxiety, and these days about accepting and making peace with the anxious thoughts and feelings which come along for the ride every day.

I share this little corner of the internet with my husband-to-be and two very opinionated cats, Willow & Mambo.

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Some thoughts wander a little further from home. You'll find longer essays and the occasional half-formed idea over on Medium - follow the butterfly.

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