On the occasions that I hear my children talk down to themselves or say they can’t do something.  I leap on them and rubbish it immediately. Confirming that they can do and be anything…  they just need confidence and a bit of hard work. Why then do I, and I see countless other women, allow…

How many times have we said in our lives “I’m going to get fit and healthy!” We make ourselves promise that once the weekend rolls around and Monday hits, we will be entirely new people. We psyche ourselves up, tell ourselves that this time will be the time that we finally get into shape, yet…

It has been a wonderful weekend and one that has been plagued with anxiety. Anxiety – I am so bastard sick of that word. I hate that it came into my life from nowhere, and some days dominates like a bout of food poisoning after a meal that you devoured with angelical enthusiasm. Most of…

As soon as my eyes blinked open and I heard the silence; I know exactly how the day was going to go… Badly. I don’t mean the dragging quiet of lockdown, the rare muteness of my children sleeping. I mean the howling shush of the falling snow outside my window. For the third time this…

You know one of the worse things about Covid? Its the blue days. The ones you were not prepared for.    When you wake up and everything is the same, but the pull on your heart is a just a little bit heavier and as you slip into the routine of the day you noticed…