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Hard isn’t a competition, there's no podium finish for those in the most pain. But comparing pain CAN lead to a feeling of isolation (for both you AND your friends). We need to look our hard stuff right in the eye and say ‘I see you’. Dismissing your sadness because...

The only way I can genuinely teach my children that other people have their back... is when I fail them. The only way I can teach my children to stand alone, is when I stand aside The first time I began to understand this, I was at the funeral of a childhood friend....

Being a good friend to a person in pain can be the bravest thing you'll ever do. It means letting them yell, letting them be unreasonable and loving them until they find a way back to themselves. Being a friend when you're in pain can be tricky as well. I often made...

  I don’t know how you do it I wasn’t given a choice. I’m calling bull shit on this ‘I wasn’t given a choice” malarkey. We’ve all been there – or maybe you’re still there. Someone says to you, quite genuinely “I don’t know how you do it” because they’re actually...

​​Breakfast of champions, right?   Shovel in some angry with your Weetabix? Delish.   Whatever your story with a ‘insert really difficult shit show with your kids here’ - the one consistent emotion seems to be a bubbling rage kind of anger. My shit show is...

Greying is a radical act. It’s embracing the age you actually are, rejecting the pressure to look a decade younger and then STILL demanding to be SEEN