Women sharing life together
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In September 2006 my younger sister (40 years old) rang me to tell me she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She was so calm about it and went on to tell me that she had found a lump months ago but did nothing about it. She went on to have a double mastectomy and was so [...]
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This is a blog sent in from one of our Raphaellers. It’s an honest and open account of a situation that many struggle with …… My beautiful baby boy is 3mths old and I love him to bits but it has also been the hardest time for me. I also have an amazing 8yr old [...]
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A couple of years ago, Denise did a very brave thing and walked away from her career of more than 20 years, left behind the negative stress and bullying that she had become accustomed to dealing with and began her own jewellery designing business from her kitchen table. Here’s her story of what happened next, [...]
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BANANA PANCAKES 125g Plain flour 85g Wholemeal flour ¼ Teaspoon Salt 2 ½ Teaspoons Baking Powder 2 Tablespoons Caster Sugar 335ml Buttermilk 2 Small Ripe Bananas Finely Chopped 1. In a large bowl, mix plain flour, wholemeal flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. Stir in buttermilk and bananas until just moistened. 2. Heat a lightly [...]
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It is National Endeometriosis Awareness month so we thought it most apt when Beverley got in touch, that she write our guest blog this month. Most of us women have periods, and most of us suffer the odd period pain at some point or other…well imagine if the pains were the most excruciating pains you’ve [...]
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I worked like everyone else in some respects, it was never a 9-5 job, but I had a fairly decent salary, and with it came the pension, and the medical insurance. I could have stayed in the company for many, many years if I wanted to, working my way up that invisible ladder. That invisible [...]
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My name is Devon and I grew up in a small mountain town in California, USA. Being one of 6 children and the youngest girl, you can imagine the chaos that swirled around our tiny home during my childhood years. Having siblings much older than me was an incredible gift, one I wouldn’t trade for [...]
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Jacqueline got in touch with The Raphael Project asking if we could highlight what it was like to be affected by being in a wheelchair – we thought who better to address it than the lady herself ….here’s her blog on life from a different angle “seeing the world in a different way” Since birth [...]
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Bullying?… Not just in the playground … By Alice Todd For three years I, Alice Todd, was bullied. There, I’ve said it! That wasn’t so hard … it’s taken me seven years to admit it out loud because I wasn’t bullied at school. I was bullied at work. I was 30 years old, in a [...]
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I had always wanted to run the London Marathon and last year I went to watch it for the first time. I was overwhelmed and completely moved by the experience, all of these people running for great causes and putting themselves through agony in order to raise money for others. The mental strength that they [...]
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