Annis Fender Blog
Today, my darlings, is a special day for me: It’s 18 years ago, on this 22nd of November, that I became a mum for the first time, coincidentally on the very same morning that Jonny Wilkinson...
My childhood home in a small German town was clean, ordered, safe, and, in my opinion, very boring. Add to that parents who were barely out of their childhood when I arrived, a little annoying...
I was not always this wholesome. In fact, I devoted much of my misspent youth to dancing the nights away, promoting clubs, working as a cocktail mixologist, and presenting myself as a general...
We are what we eat — literally. Seeing that food is broken down and converted into energy and building blocks to repair the body, it’s safe to say that if you rebuild yourself out of...
It didn’t look as if it would happen this year, but we’re packing up our household and decamp to France for the summer this Friday.
That's always a major upheaval, and as I look at the...
‘It’s not so simple, you know?’ said the woman in my yoga class who has been yo-yo-ing between perfectly healthy to borderline obese for about 20 years. She was talking about my...
I love hanging out on Instagram - and lately, I have been doing a lot of research about mature and wiser Insta-users, especially women, for my next online program (all will be revealed, patience,...
Why losing weight has nothing to do with diets
I just completed a series of interviews with local women about their lives and dreams. They are all utterly gorgeous, came from all walks of life, but...
Put crabs into a bucket, and you won’t need a lid. Because the moment one of them tries to climb out, the others will all drag it back down.
Crab mentality is a well-known way of thinking, the...
I did something mildly terrible today. I fell off the wagon. Well, not the binge-drinking, shouting rude words, belting out pop songs and doing a Myley Cyrus kind of falling off the wagon. But I...
Owning who you are is a massive step forward. It is frightening beyond the call of duty, and until about last week, I did not actually know what that meant.
It’s dawning on me now, and not...
