“There are three things that are givens about labor. It’s hard work. It hurts a lot and you can do it. That’s the bottom line. All the...

My baby boy is joy. He is dancing eyes, mischievous cackles, steady hands and knees making a break for it up the stairs when I’m not...

(Be warned- major spoilers here) There was a point in watching the film version of Elena Ferrante's Book - The Lost Daughter, where I...

Inspired by Alain de Botton’s essay “Why you will marry the wrong person” It’s one of the things we are most afraid might happen. We go...

I like to bake, but I do it to escape. I bake bread, muffins (the sweet and savoury kind), apple pies, crumbles and cookies. I bake sugar...

My husband. I love you. When you are working away our house doesn’t quite feel like home; our family is incomplete. I yearn for your...

Moments after my second baby was born, still high on a powerful cocktail of endorphins and oxytocin. Elation and love from the birth I so...

What's your emergency plan? You know, the go-to actions for when life gets really challenging. The things you do to ward off a descent...

True. You don’t need eloquent words, fancy (or even legible) handwriting. You don’t need a beautiful notebook (in fact better if it’s...

Sometimes you need permission from someone else to say the thing that weighs upon you. A dad I know said he understood how people...

A body The joy it has brought me (if "it" and "me" can be bringer and receiver of things) A home for my children; first in belly then, in...

A friend asked me about self-care this week, and I wanted to share with her a few self-care activities or rituals, but I found myself...

The pandemic was less dramatic than the ones of the big screen. The days full of monotony instead of panic. My shining stars?

It never ends this housework. But why should it? The house keeps working, the family keeps moving.

Some easy ways to signal transitions between work and home life. Important now that many of us as working from home.

Excited (and a little nervous) to announce my online course "Calm in the chaos"- the first one, will start on on 6th April 2020!

I've been pondering the question of how many kids is the 'right' number of kids? Or how do you even know what the 'right' number for you is?

“I want to stay with you guys for ever and ever. When I’m a grown-up. Even on Tuesdays and Thursdays”

GO PLACIDLY amid the piles of washing and the food smushed into the kitchen floor ...

Nothing could have prepared me for the challenges to our relationship wrought by sleep deprivation, the erosion of me-time (his and mine).