• Please Don’t Make It Weird

    My friends have a phrase they use whenever we go somewhere new. “Caren… please don’t make it weird.” The problem is, I genuinely don’t know where the “weird” bit starts.  In my head, I’m just having a normal conversation. Someone might mention the weather, and my brain doesn’t just hear “Nice weather today.” No.  My brain takes…

  • Welcome to Not Your Usual Crowd

    Hi, I’m Caren. I’m a single mum of two star seed children, and for the past several years I’ve been on what I can only describe as an awakening journey. Not the polished, Instagram version of “awakening” — the real one. The messy one. Before all this, my life was chaos, drama, and a permanent…