Archive - Lower Your Expectations

Learning experience or unmitigated disaster?

I'm taking suggestions from the audience

Jun 16 •

I don't want to have a bath

No, I don't smell! That much

Jun 2 •

May 2025

I'm the weirdest person in the world

Sorry if you thought you were in the running

May 19 •

Thank god for housework (sorry, Mum)

Proof that grief rots your brain

May 5 •

April 2025

I'll tell you what grievers really, really want

It's not a zig-a-zig-ah

Apr 21 •

I’ve spent eight months enraged by an emoji

Please consider this my official apology

Apr 7 •

March 2025

The trouble with triggers

Everything, everywhere, all at once

Mar 24 •

So much of grieving is suicide prevention

Can we stop being coy about it?

Mar 10 •

February 2025

I don't know how to be kind

But I am trying (very trying)

Feb 24 •

No, my late mum isn't still 'with me'

Am I alone in this?

Feb 10 •

January 2025

How David Beckham made me question my life's purpose

We've all been there

Jan 27 •

Knowledge of missing out

When life is more FOMO than YOLO

Jan 13 •

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