March 2022

FEELINGS

- Overall, March was a confusing but progressive month. My idea for Stage 2 has become much more indepth and now forms as a buisness concept instead of just an idea. However, leading to this point was hard work, tiresome but also enjoyable.

Towards the end of the month, I felt deflated. I could tell in myself I needed and was due a break. I tried to continue to work as hard as I could so when the easter holidays came around I could reward myself.

- Especially, finishing university for the easter holidays was scary, knowing that when we return the table changes slightly to working on presentation skills and the executive summary. However, after a call with Naomi, I realised I feel in a really good place with my work to be taking that break. I truly have worked so hard over the last few weeks and just hope that when finished I get the reward for doing so.

EXPERIENCE

- This month, I realised that to complete my best work, I am most on my own, plugged in, listening to throwback music. I suppose this is self awareness at its finest.

I am super happy as said with how far my Stage 2 concept has come. It now defines as a online platform and community for women who deal with intimate and sexual health conditions. This space offers advice, support and a non judgemental field so women feel comfortable to face these challenges. This supports my insights of sexual and intimate health still being a taboo and stigmatised for women and women do not have the support when something “goes wrong”. This has been created not only from sufficent primary research but a personal story to me.

- This experience up to this point has been, hard, mentally draining, emotional but so rewarding.

- I am very much considering actually creating this platform has a side task for myself as an instagram account only to continue on my journey to hep women.

WHAT I AM TAKING AWAY

- From doing this project and based on women’s intimate and sexual health, I have actually had quite a few of experiences. I am grateful for the challenges it has brought as well as my own self development. From this, I see myself in a new light, I no longer have shame for myself regarding my own issues and have truly felt so many platfroms which are out there to support women in any area which i find so empowering.

- I am taking away that I know myself in a better light now. I know what makes me more producive and how I best work as well as when I need a break. And that is okay.

I am both nervous and excited for retruning to university after easter but at the present feel so proud of myself for continuing to have the motivation to continue with this work. I truly do not know what other topic or route I would have taken if I hadn’t started with this journey in my Future Thinking. Therefore, I am grateful for my own life experiences, good and bad, which have led me to this point.