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Making Special Occasions Special When it comes to our children’s birthdays, the pressure can feel enormous. Social media shows us picture-perfect parties with balloon arches, bouncy castles, banquets and endless presents with bows. And when you’re doing it alone, that pressure weighs even heavier, you start to wonder if what…

Reflection, Intention and Possibility A new month is like turning a page in your own story. Some chapters are dark and heavy, others are lighthearted, and some are full of change (something which I am terrible at). Whatever last month held for you, you’re allowed to begin again, gently and…

The Simple Life and Simple Moments Yesterday, I turned 32. Another trip around the sun and with it is a moment to reflect on what this life means to me. For me, it isn’t in the grand, dramatic sense, but in the quiet, steady, deeply personal way that only comes…

Learning to Live Again For a long time, I wasn’t living. I was merely surviving. I don’t mean the kind of “survival mode” people mention casually when they’ve skipped breakfast or had a busy week. I mean the bone-deep kind. The kind where every day is an act of endurance.…

The Power of What If? We spend so much of our energy worrying about what could go wrong. We run through every possible failure in our minds, every reason to hold back, every “what if” that keeps us frozen in place. How about we flip the script and ask ourselves,…

Living Fully Through It All Life is a beautiful, unpredictable mix of soaring highs and soul-stretching lows. It’s laughter at a kitchen table one day and quiet tears on the drive home from work the next (thankfully this doesn’t happen so often now). Through it all whether you’re on the…

Spoiler: It’s Barely 5 People and Half of Them Don’t Even Care We humans have a bad habit of giving way too much power to a mysterious, all-knowing council of critics we call the allusive.. everybody. You already know the ones: But here’s the million-pound question: who exactly is “everybody”?…

You Can’t Self-Sabotage Forever.. Or You Can But It Will Be Sh*t Self-sabotage has a sneaky way of creeping into our lives. It looks like procrastination, like downplaying your own achievements, like choosing comfort over growth even when you know better. It whispers, “not yet… maybe tomorrow” and convinces you…

Lucky You! The other day a friend said to me, “you’re so lucky you can send your son to holiday club during the six-week holidays.” At first, her words caught me off guard. Lucky? I was perplexed because from where I stand, it doesn’t always feel that way. To be…

“We’ll Find Out When They’re Adults” Sometimes, actually more frequently than I’d like to admit, I lie awake at night wondering if I’m doing this whole parenting thing right. Then I remember none of us really know. We’re all just throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping some of it…