A recent conversation between my school friends went something like this: “Can you remember when Lauren made Mrs White cry?” (knowing smiles from the group). “Was that after she told her she was incompetent?” (collective giggles). “No, no, I think…
Author: Lauren Saving
The origins of the ethos ‘new year, new me,’ began over 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylon and not, as popular culture would have you believe, on a Sweaty Betty t-shirt. Apparently the Babylonians vowed to do good deeds at…
“How are things going with Carol then?” is the inevitable question my friends ask me when I explain I have been living with my parents for the past nine months. They ask the question in a humorous way, but underneath…
For some time I have suspected I am destined for greatness. Until now it’s been a secret suspicion, hidden away from the ordinary others around me on the grounds it would make them feel unworthy. It must be nice, I…
When I can’t sleep, instead of counting sheep, I like to play a little game called ‘list everything I haven’t done in my life’. Getting married, having children and buying a house are the usual contenders, along with living abroad,…
I have a very difficult relationship with Novak Djokovic. On the one hand, I realise that he is an exceptional tennis player having been listed in the world’s top three players for many years and claiming countless trophies. On the…
When we were 13, my best friend and I developed an unyielding obsession with a girl in the sixth form of our closeted all girl’s school. Every little morsel we managed to discover about her life was clung onto and…
“What I do is help break the surface away. It’s like peeling away the layers and getting to those parts of yourself that so many of us have become totally disconnected from,” Melissa Sanger, womb witch and feminine empowerment artist…
“I became an artist because I didn’t want to do bar work during my university holidays,” Georgie Mason tells me from her father’s home in Suffolk where she is currently isolating. We talk over Google Hangouts and I am surprised…
My uterus is currently about the size of an upside down pear, although, when required, it can expand up to 100 times this size. This little bag of muscles can also hold up to 150 times its own weight and…