• Sophie takes a phone selfie in a full length mirror - she has pink hair in a half up/half down bunches style, and wears a purple dress
    Celebrate Life,  General Lifestyle,  Plus Size Dopamine Dressing

    Getting Reacquainted with Life

    Look, I’ll admit it – I’m a terrible blogger. I go in all guns blazing and then life happens and I forget about it for the best part of a year. There are mixed reasons for this – so let’s just start at the start! I ended 2024 feeling pretty on top of the world – things were starting to feel like they were balancing out and I was in a good place in most aspects of my life. Then a series of things went wrong. I lost one of my freelance roles in the first week of January, had to take my dog to the vet multiple times in…

  • Sophie and Tilly are at a table at Scotland's Planner Meet. They have lots of freebies and purchases on the table in front of them
    Adventures

    Scotland’s Planner Meet – Travels Across Scotland

    The last thing I said on here was that I had no further travel plans, but lo and behold, I didn’t think about the fact I was going to Scotland’s Planner Meet just two days after posting! Obviously it was still travel within Scotland, but I think it should still count! Am I going to go? I’m not going to lie; I almost didn’t go. I had been ill for a couple of weeks, and my cough was unbearable. I was worried about flying while being fat, having coughing fits in public, peeing myself (Mums will know!), being someone that other people wouldn’t want to be around and generally just…

  • Adventures

    Travel to York

    It’s been a quiet few weeks on the website, which isn’t the ‘bang’ I hoped to start this with, but there are good reasons! The first that I had to travel to York for my bestie’s birthday party. And secondly, once I got back I was straight into work, a chest infection and general daily life. But that’s not why you’re here! You want to hear about my travels! Living in Orkney, I have to factor in a day either side of any sort of event for travelling. I’m mostly used to having to do that, having grown up here, but I must admit it had been a good 15…

  • Make Life Feel Better - Sophie leans against a window sill, wearing a black dress with rainbows on it. She has long hair that is coloured sunset colours (purple, pink, orange, yellow)
    General Lifestyle

    Welcome to Make Life Feel Better!

    I’m sure I’m not alone in being the kind of person who has started blog after blog over the years. Some of you might remember me as a fashion blogger from a life before I started Make Life Feel Better, others as an activist, some as a planner, and I’ve even poured my heart out in far too many old LiveJournal posts that I’m too scared to look up and find out if they actually exist anymore. Most who are here won’t know me as a blogger at all, but as someone who shares what they’re eating every day on TikTok in videos that begin with the annoyingly repetitive “my…