Every week for the last 8 weeks, I've clicked on the "new post" tab on my blog, hoping that I'd feel overcome with a wave of inspiration and paragraphs of insightful things to say. Writing is one of my favourite forms of expression and if you're a regular here you probably know that short blogs & captions aren't really my strong suit - I tend to talk a lot!

But funnily enough, throughout this lockdown, the last thing I've wanted to do is write a blog post. At the beginning of the pandemic, I had a long list of ideas and things that I wanted to write about to help others navigate this time, as well as a ton of travel blog posts that I never quite got around to writing. But every time I've come to write, I've felt so mentally blocked and totally uninspired. Honestly, you should see all the semi-started blog posts sitting in my drafts it's actually ridiculous!

I soon realised after a few weeks of trying and failing, that if I have to force it so much, and if it's not working, I probably shouldn't do it. And since then, I've ended up unintentionally having the longest break from blogging since I first started 5 and a half years ago. Being honest I felt a little guilty at first, especially because as a creator, my job in this time has been to provide support and entertainment to people, and I felt that by not blogging I sort of wasn't doing my job properly. I definitely felt like a bad blogger!