At what point do we agree that nobody is sugar coating parenting anymore? Because despite the schtick that mothers don’t “really tell it how it is”, these days that’s pretty much all we do. Mothers across the land are hanging out their dirty washing on the interwebs, ‘mum moments’ merrily flapping in the hot air. It’s a mystery to me how…
How can we all stop feeling so unsettled?
I put a little Facebook message up this afternoon that seems to have resonated with so many of us. It began, “I’m so unsettled lately…” “Unsettled” is a word that encompasses so much, doesn’t it? Stress, anxiety, uncertainty, bewilderment, melancholy, worry – for me it is all these things and something else. That feeling of…
Believe in yourself and believe that you’re somebody
Martin Luther King Jr had a way of digging inside himself and pulling out the gritty essence of what it is to be alive. And he showed us how to take that essence and hold it inside our own. Believe in yourself and believe that you’re somebody. If only every one of us could do…
Paint it red
What others think
It seems to me that many of spend a goodly proportion of our time worrying what other people think of us. What we wear, how we wear it, how we spend our time, the way we parent our children, where we live, how we live. Our insecurity about our place in the world leads us to…
Postie delivery: Living confidently ever after
Confidence, huh? Just talking about it makes one sound rather arrogant and a touch up one’s own arse. But I’m going there. Never one to shy away, so to speak. So, I’m over at Good Holly Golly Gosh She’s Fab‘s place tonight, enjoying my new career as a guest postie and (very confidentally) talking about…