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/

If you thought Facebook memories from 'way back when' were cringe, try reading long public essays that vehemently state views that no longer resemble the person you are today.

Yikes on several bikes 😬

#Blogging #Blogger #WritersOfMastodon #Writing #AmWriting #CreativeWriting #PersonalWriting #LifeWriting #UKBlogger #BlogLife #OnlineWriting #PersonalBlog #EssayWriting #WritersLife #WritersCommunity #CreativeProcess #WritingJourney #BloggerLife #BloggingCommunity #BloggersOfMastodon

BECOMING A MAN INSIDE A MAN’S BODY — Why I Couldn’t Fit Into Sexual Roles

I lived for a long time between definitions — not wanting labels that didn’t fit, yet not feeling prepared for the roles I was told a man should embody.

This piece is about becoming, not explaining.
About learning to inhabit the self without force or performance.

🔗 Article link below

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/becoming-a-man-inside-a-mans-body-d6d247bcce8d?sk=4b59317671798961931ba10894efbe8d

#Masculinity #Identity #SelfDiscovery #InnerWork #Becoming #PersonalEssay #LifeWriting #ConsciousLiving

NEW BLOG: 'Life writing, family stories and "history from below"', by Alison Twells, author of 'A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age'

'We still have so few accounts of ordinary peoples’ lives told in their own voices and on their own terms [...] might Norah’s diaries allow a different kind of access to a working-class girl’s interior life?'

Read the post: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/life-writing-family-stories-and-history-from-below/

Read the book: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461

#OAbooks #OpenAccess #LifeWriting

Decide How You’ll Write About Your Life

We here at WU believe in fiction’s power, and work every day to improve how we wield it. But many of life’s real events can be spun into equally engrossing stories. This raises a quandary for the writer who hopes to process, and then share, an aspect of their life on the page.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/10/09/decide-how-youll-write-about-your-life/

#REALWORLD #Writinglife #creativenonfiction #KathrynCraft #lifewriting

“Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”

SNACK Magazine speaks to Rodge Glass about moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir

https://snackmag.co.uk/rodge-glass-looks-back-to-moving-to-glasgow-first-meeting-alasdair-gray-and-latest-novel-joshua-in-the-sky-a-blood-memoir-interview

#Scottish #literature #memoir #biography #lifewriting

Today is #welovememoirsday and also @unesco International Day for People of African Descent
To celebrate both, remember you can find lots and lots of #memoirs by #BlackWriters in our collection. The picture shows only a small part!

#BlackVoices #BlackAuthors #LifeWriting #Autobiography