The Ideal Mother isn’t kind. She might only be a cultural myth. But this idealisation of the perfect caregiver is a harmful omnipresence in all of our families. The notion of the Ideal Mother – as portrayed in misogynist rags…
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Listening to yourself with kindness
We’ve all got stories that we tell ourselves about habits we don’t like or wish we could change. Like – ‘I’m such a huge procrastinator’, or ‘I’m not very creative’, or ‘I never stick with anything’. I’ve been doing a…
On learning lessons and getting stuff done
Why is it that some lessons have to be learned a hundred times before they stick? Even when they’re so utterly obvious that you can’t understand how you’ve got so far without taking them on board? I learned one of…
The small things
When you look down, you see all the small things. And there’s captivating beauty in the minutia. There’s comfort, too, in that feeling of being so much bigger than everything underneath your feet. You’re walking along the beach when some…
Is it time you wrote a new life story?
We all write our own life stories. We use stories to explain why we did things a certain way and to make sense of how we ended up living where we do, working at the job we’ve got, or falling…
Escape to Bristol – a weekend away by myself
I spent last weekend in Bristol by myself after weeks fantasizing about my escape. Escape from what? I’m not sure – Family life? Motherhood? Midlife? Myself? Probably all of those things. I turn 42 this weekend and it can’t be…