Undivided, unconditional support.

Its the perfect time of year to really think about who has helped on each of our journeys to get to where we are. If not for a combination of experiences, we would certainly not be who we have become.

From the shop manager offering me a job at sixteen with a company I stayed with on and off for five years, to the degree I scraped my way through. From going through mental ill-health trying to juggle too much to celebrating three years with my current boyfriend, though there are struggles, it is true that it does gets better.

To the campaigners who first saw something in me offering me a job in Weston-super-Mare to Pride in London entrusting me with managing their Photography, I am a sum of memories which I am truly grateful for.

And though they were painful, the most difficult times in my life have taught the most and forced me to adapt into a better person, often using the motto 'kill them with kindness'.

At the moment, families being families, something once in a while tends to go wrong. Difference in opinions challenges close relationships to be strained, probably because we are over familiar with each other that we don't spare a moment to look at the argument from the other person's side.

I'll end up doing some running around tomorrow to make sure I see everyone I love, and some of the people who have pushed me the hardest, held me most to account and contested everything I have ever done. It is to those people, my family, who I am truly fortunate to have.

Not everyone is as lucky as I have been to have their undivided, unconditional support, even if often it's masqueraded as negative criticism.

So this Christmas, be merry. Here's to family and friends and the indivisible bonds that hold us all together.

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.