Hello, my name is Mel.

I'm a southerner living in the North, having relocated to live with Mr/escape from a life I had constructed which wasn't me! I've spent my career working in beauty, building incredible brands in the UK. In recent years, focusing on natural and cruelty free brands. I've started a Psychology degree in my spare time (well, you do have 16 years to complete them part time.....) I'm a wife, sister, daughter, godmother, pretty great pal to a handful of carefully selected amazing people. Have an evolving passion for women's issues in all forms.

I wanted to create a space initially to capture my own thoughts on feeling inadequate, unworthy, insufficient and basically not bloody good enough! It seems that unless you have a couple of successful ways of earning money using your impressive talents, blog, writing, yogi, weekend park-runner, book coming out, mate....you are not cutting it. What if we're ok though? What if we are doing ok, and what if, not wanting all that...is ok too?

This space is for a diverse range of women and those who identify as female, in background, interests, abilities and stories. Thank you in advance for respecting those within it. Not every post may be of interest to everyone, you may not want to live the life choices of certain people posting, but I can guarantee there will be some which resonate, which inspire and make you think differently. Please encourage, champion, interact and be compassionate, we are all adequate in our own way.

Welcome to Adequate Female. I am adequate. You are adequate. We are adequate. And that my friends, is enough.