"I used to dress for the shadows - a simple black dress intended to make me disappear. But I’ve learned that life is far too short to be the background character in your own story."

For a long time, my world was defined by a long sigh and a closed door. My journey, which I’ve shared in my book Party For One, began at a crossroads of betrayal and a quiet realisation: intimacy isn’t just something that happens to you; it’s something you claim.