Why aren’t we talking about this

For most of us, psychedelics come with a lot of baggage. Drugs. Hippies. Bad trips. Losing control. Yet, there’s another conversation happening around them. One about perspective, identity, creativity, connection and...

“Enjoy your break.” It’s such a normal thing to say to someone going on maternity leave, except maternity leave isn’t really a break at all. It’s a period of enormous change, and underneath all the excitement there can...

There’s something slightly uncomfortable about saying, out loud, that you want more. More money. More success. More adventure. A bigger business. A bigger life. Because surely we should be grateful for what we already...

We spend a lot of our lives learning how to be good at things. We learn how to do our jobs, manage our money, raise children, cook, exercise, communicate better, sleep better. There is a book, podcast, course or expert...

<p >I'll be honest, my first reaction was suspicion.</p> <p >When Lorna Lyons told me she had a thriving business, earned well, and wasn't grinding every single day, something in me bristled.</p> <p >Is she a con...

<p >"She's so resilient. She's got it all together."</p> <p >That's the badge. And for a lot of high-functioning women, it's the thing that almost destroys them.</p> <p >When you've spent years accepting that label...

<p >"LinkedIn is a jealousy machine pretending to be a motivation machine."</p> <p >Ooofff.. yep.</p> <p >Award season rolls around. Amazing job announcements. That campaign you wish you'd thought of. Everyone...

<p >“Women, it's older women, and then it's urine- it’s the triple yuck”</p> <p >This is probably the most important conversation that I have had this year. I can not express how crucial it is that we change the whole...

<p >Sometimes a book finds you at exactly the moment you need it and Chaos was that for me.</p> <p >We all experience it. Those moments where everything feels uncertain, where something is shifting, ending, or asking...

<p >This week, we are doing something a bit different. I am talking about me. Why did I, at 41, decide to start a podcast… and start sharing stories about myself, revealing insecurities, and basically how despite now...

<p>Stories are how we make sense of what’s happening to us.</p> <p>But when something hard hits, most of us go quiet. We tell ourselves we’ll share it later- when we understand it, when it feels less raw, when there’s a...

<p>We’ve normalised something quite strange.</p> <p>We take photos of our children constantly. First steps, first days of school, the in-between moments that feel too important to lose. And then we share them. Not...

<p>Everywhere you turn there’s judgement - do less, do more, be thinner, be softer, be stronger, be quieter, be grateful, be better. Society hands women a script and calls it choice, and we follow it: staying in careers...

<p >Grief. There is no one way to do it.</p> <p >And yet, when you’re in the thick of it, it’s so easy to feel like you’re getting it wrong - too much, too little, too emotional, too functional. Carrying on when you...

<p >Infertility is a complex topic. And while conversations and support around it have come a long way in the 9 years since I went through IVF, there’s still one side that remains largely closed off. Male...