It’s been nine years since I started this blog. So much has changed in the meantime, but one thing stays the same: my goal and mission. Over the years, through communicating with you, my readers and followers, I gained such valuable insights of what it’s like to be tall in a world made for shorter people! I connected with so many like-minded souls going through struggles that may not have been quite identical to mine, but are certainly fairly similar.

This is how I’ve been gradually refining the purpose of this blog, and my writing has started to shift into focus. It has become much more than just a resource for information and advice.

My goal, as a blogger and an author, is to inspire others to embrace their uniqueness and strive towards becoming the best version of themselves while navigating life’s challenges with humour, confidence, and resilience. This is what Not Another Tall Blog, and the novel ‘A Tall Woman of Many Talents’ based on it, are about.

We are all unique and have our own stories, and I see mine as one of those that can help and inspire others. My life has been an interesting journey that hasn’t always been easy (more often not), and learning my life lessons has sometimes been painful. If I can make a difference to one person’s life by sharing my life experience and messages with them, that would make me happy.

I want to help others stand tall because I know what it was like to live small. 

I have always been saying that height does not define us. Unfortunately, sometimes we allow that to happen, and the results can be damaging to our mental health. Through blogging and talking to others, I realised that writing a book about my journey is my therapy. Reading it could become yours. There is no better feeling than receiving messages from fellow tall women saying they wish such a book existed when they were growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, or that they feel they are reading the story of their own life in this book. This is when I know I have hit that nerve!

If you find some of the content of this blog helpful or interesting, chances are you will relate to what the book is about, and it may help you, at least a tiny little bit.

It is not always easy to hold back from placing judgment onto others. Yet, if you have been on the receiving end of this and have been ostracized, ridiculed, made fun of, criticized, or had low self-esteem, then you’ll know better. Through my own story, which gets raw and personal, I bear my soul with one purpose: to empower others to realise they are unique and beautiful as they are, that they should not allow others affect their self-esteem and value of self-worth. To own their own mental space, to shift their mindset, and to work on themselves to become their own better versions.

As a blogger and author, I am focused on making a difference to the lives of those who feel different because they are too tall/short/small/big/anything by showing them a different perspective that will help change their mindset and overcome their limiting beliefs. I advocate for tall people and their needs, affirming differences as a fact of life and focusing on what makes us happy instead of allowing struggles, our own mindset, and bullies, to take us down.

I think this is a mission that is worthy enough, so if you see me posting about this again, and again, and again, this is because I believe in it. Because I care for the community of tall people, and the community of those who feel different. We are worth as we are and I want to help those who doubt themselves realise it.

And, last but not least: don’t forget to smile!!