"Of course, my lifestyle habits have changed dramatically... but I hadn’t really noticed the slow ebb of those expensive frivolities from my life"

"...this is how the bag for life wins. It knows our vulnerabilities. It knows that when we go in for some bread and a litre of milk, we come out with nine other items that we forgot we needed..."

"It had been almost a decade since I had seen Margo when last week, for some reason, she came to mind again - I googled her name on my phone and was saddened to see her death notice"

"Even if we think we are complimenting someone, we may be touching on sensitive areas or reinforcing damaging ideas about our bodies."

"...we can find wonder and awe in the smallest things; we just need to give ourselves permission to enter into it as adults in the way we did as children..."

"...it wasn’t about having huge, luxurious houses or a constantly changing wardrobe of designer clothes or lots of cars...."

"The part that was most difficult to explain was how women could be incarcerated without having committed any crime, and how babies could be taken away from their mothers without anyone stepping in."

Sometimes, there are no shortcuts. It’s not glamorous and it’s not as appealing as the big overnight transformation, but after a year of small wins we are often standing in a completely different place and so different opportunities can present themselves, ones that we couldn’t imagine a year ago.

If they’re good enough for shoe afficionado Carrie Bradshaw, I thought …

It’s such a small thing, but I’m starting to think having tiny reminders in our day that help refocus on looking up might be really useful.