"Life is complicated, then parenting comes along, and parenting neurodivergent children adds a whole new layer of complexity."

Something new and intensely personal on the blog this week.

Parenting in a Neurodivergent Household: A Mother’s Reflection

https://carasutra.com/2026/03/parenting-neurodivergent-household/

#Neurodivergent #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AutismParenting #Neurodiversity #ChronicIllness #Parenting #Blogger #UKblog #UKblogger #MumStuff #LifeUnscripted

Writing this over the past week was upsetting, exhausting, cathartic.

The 'real life' that's been happening alongside 17yrs of sex blogging

https://carasutra.com/2026/02/beyond-sex-blogger-label/

#LifeUnscripted #PersonalStory #HealingJourney #RealLife #TruthTelling #Therapy #cPTSD

On living with lower libido, due to mental health & trauma, perimenopause, HRT & ageing, chronic illness and identity shifts.

#LifeUnscripted #LowLibido #Perimenopause #Midlife #MentalHealth #TraumaRecovery #ChronicIllness #IdentityShift #LifeWriting #PersonalEssays #LivedExperience #HealingJourney #WomensHealth #HormoneHealth #SelfReflection #MidlifeJourney #QuietRevolution #EmotionalWellbeing #WritingLife
https://carasutra.com/2026/01/living-with-low-libido/

Back in 2016, I wrote about not being able to orgasm from oral sex.

10 years on, I've updated this post through new-but-older eyes. An in-depth piece in which I share my personal perspective on internal and external sexual pressure & expectations.

https://carasutra.com/2016/05/why-cunnilingus-doesnt-work-for-me/

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#SexPositive #BodyAutonomy #Consent #Pleasure #SexEducation #SexualHealth #WomensVoices #Midlife #PersonalEssay #TraumaAware #Healing #SelfTrust #LifeUnscripted

I knew something had changed. I suspected perimenopause, and despite a fight to be believed, I was right. This is my story of how it started, how it turned me and my life upside down, and the struggle to claw my way back to, well… me.

https://carasutra.com/2023/03/hello-perimenopause/

#Perimenopause #BodyAutonomy #SexualHealth #ReproductiveHealth #LifeUnscripted #HRT #Perimeno #Ageing

https://carasutra.com/2023/03/hello-perimenopause/

Trying to stay focused on a spark of hope this Imbolc, as the light returns. 🕯️🌻

This year it feels like I need to really concentrate to see the light in the dark, instead of it coming to me, as it used to, like the sun at dawn.

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#Imbolc #Pagan #witchcraft #witchy #UKwitches #witch #altar #SeasonalLiving #WheelOfTheYear #LightReturning #WinterToSpring #SlowLiving #MindfulMoments #HealingJourney #ChronicIllness #DisabilityVoices #LifeUnscripted

How do you feel when you open that letter? Or when the reminder pings on your phone?

I dreaded my cervical smear test for years. It’s never as terrifying as I imagine. In fact, it isn’t scary at all. I wrote about what actually happens at a cervical screening.

https://carasutra.com/2023/03/what-happens-at-smear-test-cervical-screening-exam/

#CervicalScreening #SmearTest #ReproductiveHealth #LifeUnscripted #BodyAutonomy
https://carasutra.com/2023/03/what-happens-at-smear-test-cervical-screening-exam/

January used to mean restriction and punishment. This year, I’m refusing to swallow the guilt and shrink myself, rebelling through nourishment and kindness to myself instead.

Here are my thoughts on diet culture, body shame, and learning to allow food and pleasure as basic rights, not rewards.

https://carasutra.com/2026/01/new-year-weight-loss-plans-diet-culture/

#DietCulture #AntiDiet #BodyImage #MentalHealth #LifeUnscripted #SelfCare
https://carasutra.com/2026/01/new-year-weight-loss-plans-diet-culture/