
Re-Emerging From Early Motherhood [How long does it take?]
We don't really prepare for this part. This motherhood part. We might prepare to optimise the conception. To optimise the pregnancy. We...
We don't really prepare for this part. This motherhood part. We might prepare to optimise the conception. To optimise the pregnancy. We...
The Second Arrow is a Buddhist teaching. I'll briefly outline my understanding of it here, but mostly I want to get to the juicy work of...
As a society, when a woman speaks her needs, we just don't listen. Instead we encourage her to push through. To stick to deadlines and...
I grapple with anxiety. It is a foe and a friend. Sometimes it stops me from being in the present moment. Other times it is the very...
I penned an Ode to International Womens Day recently. It haunts me in the best kind of way. So I want to share it with you here. Try...
I met Power first. At least I thought. I controlled every thing. Held firm. Aimed for perfection. Inflexible and stubborn. High...
I didn't particularly enjoy being pregnant. I felt huge gratitude. But I didn't enjoy it. As multi-layered women I believe both things...
This is one of the most useful things we can do in pregnancy: to explore what brings us home. Because chances are, they always will. To...
When we step from maiden to mother a lot of things change. Fast. I have spent the last few years thinking about how we can possibly care...
I've been dancing with a flighty feeling of overwhelm. Each cell of my body like its own untethered helium balloon. Suddenly, it feels...
I didn't know how to show up for a woman that was breastfeeding in public before I had kids. I was so uncertain of what I could offer as...
I learnt this lesson from motherhood. But it's something I'll keep remembering forever. This applies to every person who has a lot on...
Shitty days, or shitty hours in otherwise unremarkable days, get a bad rap. Understandably. They're pretty tough places in be in. But...