Barreling into 2025 with a Celebration of Diversity; and the truth of my present mental health

A Blog Post Celebrating Diversity

I swear, the older I get, the faster time passes! This time last year, I made a blog post on diversity and acceptance, though I did not explain it at the time. I’ve been meaning to write about it since, and today seems like the perfect opportunity.

I wrote this blog for a close friend and his wife. They were beginning their own transition. She had discovered that she’d repressed her sexuality for years, while growing up and through motherhood, due to outside pressure and the expectations of society in general and of those around her. 

Like ours, their relationship is super strong. She talked with him about the fact she is bisexual and they agreed to open up their relationship, so she could explore this. Not long after, my friend talked to me about it. He knew from my blog, that we’d also opened ourselves up.

We had a really honest chat about fears, dealing with the emotional side of letting someone else in and other such stuff. They approached the opening of themselves gently, each with infinite compassion for the other. He is always fully supportive of her wishes and her dreams, and she encourages him too.

The blog I wrote for them is a fantasy. It is unashamedly witchy, as my friend’s wife is also witchy. She is a life-nurturer, fully in touch with nature and with her spirit world.

Every time I read this blog, I find myself crying at the end of it. The way it ends gets me. It’s because he’s my friend, and the way I portray his tiny part in the story, is exactly how he is. Loving, caring, in awe of her and fully supportive and accepting of her new journey.

I still think this is one of the best pieces I have written, though it’s completely different to my normal style. The message is hidden. It’s a story written for my friends, but also for anyone else who have gone through or are going through a sexual-reawakening, a transition or a realisation and acceptance of their own sexuality.

The woodland and how she experiences it in her uniquely self-like way, her awakening, and her realisations bring her such a level of intense personal power and joy in her own core-self.

The experience seems to happen within a single time frame, perhaps a few hours. But her experience of it takes her through the seasons, through day and night. Time is transient, it makes no difference to the truth of who she really is and always has been.

Here’s the story, if you’d like to read it again.

Taking a break for my mental health

I’m facing change now too. The company I work for is in trouble and I may lose my job. 

I’m going to bang on about it again: Being autistic, I’m really not so good at dealing with being unable to make concrete plans, never mind change in the first place. 

I’m taking a step back from Sundial until I know what’s happening, because my mental health is taking a hit. Being on leave at the moment, I feel pretty good, but the lows are overpowering. It feels like a chore to force the creativity, which destroys the joy I have in writing. I should know more in the next few weeks, and I will keep you updated.

Wishing you all a very happy new year, may 2025 bring you everything you desire.