by Ruby May | May 8, 2019 | Truth Bites
In this climate of fear and uncertainty, it is a strange time in the history of the world to even think about having children… or make any kind of long-term plan for that matter. As I approach my forties, and the timespan in which I am able to give birth to a...
by Ruby May | Apr 25, 2019 | Truth Bites
I don’t remember exactly when and how it shifted. How I changed from seeing my period as a monthly burden to bare – an uncomfortable consequence of having a female body that I found ways to manage, so that I could almost pretend it wasn’t happening – to...
by Ruby May | Apr 18, 2019 | Truth Bites
First published by Ecohustler I used to think of ‘activists’ as being people ‘over there’, campaigning and fighting and….well, doing their activist thing, while I could gratefully admire them from the distance. I imagine many of us have felt this way. “At least...
by Ruby May | Sep 5, 2018 | Know Your Flow, Truth Bites
Living in a world that idolises independence and not needing anything from anyone as ‘strong’, I think so many of us have grown up with a warped picture of having needs and we are stumbling around in the dark without realising it. I see from myself how a...
by Ruby May | May 23, 2018 | Know Your Flow, Truth Bites
It’s so revealing about us collectively, that we have created this word in the English language: “needy”. The word is so charged, so loaded with judgement. It’s often used an as an insult: being ‘needy’ is the least cool, least...
