body confidence

Embracing Your Body with help from Ginny Marsh

February 9, 2015

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned about dating is just how vital self-confidence is. Before you can even begin to search for someone to love, you need to love yourself. Think about it … when you look back at the Sex and the [...]

Forgetting About Food – A Lesson in Body Image

December 10, 2014

Today I did something empowering. I went to a supermarket. It’s funny how memories work. The last time I wandered around an Australian supermarket, I was 25 years old and barely weeks into a year back-packing around the world. Looking back, it’s [...]

The Designer Vagina

September 4, 2014

I talk a lot on 30 Dates about Body Confidence, because I believe it comes hand in hand with dating successfully. The old adage that you need to love yourself, before you can let someone else love you. But there’s one part of body confidence [...]

Let’s All Just Get Naked!

September 2, 2014

One of the great things about moving up to London is how much more time I get to spend with friends. And recently, while I’ve been reviewing more and more date locations, it’s meant I get to spend quality time with friends, as well as [...]

The Body Hair Issue

August 9, 2014

So 2014 is fast becoming the year of the body hair debate. After a decade of Brazilian waxes, vajazzles and laser hair promotion, suddenly society has started to call into question whether hair removal is feminine, and why we all do it … First [...]

Learning to Give Yourself a Break

July 25, 2014

I’ve always been my biggest critic. From the earliest of ages, I was ridiculously driven. I can remember being 5 or 6 and staring at the scholarship board at my Primary School. I wanted to get my name up on the board. At Secondary School my aim [...]

A Round-Up of Body Confidence Week

February 4, 2014

Just in case you missed any of #BodyConfidenceWeek on the 30 Dates Blog, here’s a neat round-up of all the different posts from last week – RELATIONSHIPS Face Value – by Miss Twenty-Nine PHYSICALITY Body Confidence – by Miss [...]

PICTURES – Losing The Soul of A Photo (The Flash)

February 3, 2014

So here’s the final post of #BodyConfidenceWeek. Rather fittingly, it’s from the Week’s keenest contributor, The Flash. Thank you everyone who has contributed over the last seven days. There’ll be another themed week [...]

PHYSICALITY – From the Mouths of Babes (Rebound Gal)

February 2, 2014

It’s the final night of Body Confidence Week on the blog – huge thanks to all the Experimental Daters who’ve contributed 🙂 In my original post about Body Confidence I touched on my own fears about potentially raising a [...]

SINGLE – Measuring Up Against The Other Singletons (Fader)

February 1, 2014

I thought it appropriate to kick off February with a post by Fader about what a rubbish January she had, and the things she’s looking forward to achieving in the month ahead. Pinch and a Punch, and all that … 😉 Miss Twenty-Nine xxx [...]