by Eugenie Verney | Feb 10, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
On to Day 10 of my 21 Days of Courage and I’m looking at who called the shots in our house… I’m not sure I had an authority figure as such when I was growing up. There wasn’t any kind of generational patriarchy or matriarchy on either side of my family and our...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 10, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
On to Day 8 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m back on a beach in Yugoslavia… When my mother went to the beach, it was to swim a little, sunbathe a little, read a little, and snooze a lot. One thing she didn’t do was talk to anyone, apart from me and my father. They...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 30, 2020 | FAQs, Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
Day 3 of 21 Days of Courage… My mother’s default response to most things she couldn’t instantly fix and that were not actually down to her anyway was: ‘It’s not my fault. I can’t help it.’ I don’t recall when I first became consciously aware of this but I...