30/12/2025
✨ 2025 ✨
As the year draws to a close, I want to take a moment to thank you all for your continued support throughout the year. It’s been a challenging one for me, and as a result, Slow Living Scotland has had to take a bit of a back seat over the past few months.
If nothing else, this time has reminded me just how wonderful this community is. I’d especially like to give a shout-out to the women I’ve had the privilege of working alongside this year, because truly, you are all incredible.
At my recent Festive Fayre, I was lucky enough to spend time chatting with some of these amazing women, many of them mums, who are juggling so much. Working tirelessly at home, in their jobs, in their businesses, within their communities, families, and relationships. I’ve been deeply inspired by you all, and in awe of the strength you carry. A strength that lives within every one of us, whether we recognise it yet or not.
I am so incredibly proud to be a woman, even with, and perhaps because of, the challenges that come with it. This is one of the reasons I created our women’s group, .women.north.east to create space for new connections. Because life can feel incredibly lonely when you’re carrying so many roles at once, and I truly believe we all deserve time for ourselves, away from the constant demands of everyday life.
So while I know there are many strong and wonderful men out there too, I want to dedicate this final post of 2025 to women — friends, family, followers, colleagues, all women. I see you. I feel you. I love you 💕
Here’s to 2026! 🥂 “May we continue to rise with courage through whatever challenges come our way, while holding onto the softness, hope, and quiet power that guide us toward brighter days ahead.”
