Why Men Don’t Ask for Help (and What Shame Has to Do With It)

Listen You’ve been feeling off for a while. You snap at the kids over nothing, you’re up at 3am staring at the ceiling and you’ve stopped going to the thing you used to look forward to every week. Somewhere in the back of your mind you know it might...

What Parents Get Wrong About Raising Teenage Boys

Listen The light is still on under his door. You can hear a voice through his speaker, someone you don’t recognise, talking with a confidence your son hasn’t brought to the dinner table in months. You stand in the hallway weighing it up. Knock and risk the...

Are You a Good Girl? The Hidden Cost of People Pleasing

Listen Someone asks you for something and the word yes is out of your mouth before you’ve had a chance to check in with yourself. Later you’re replaying it, cranky with them and crankier with yourself, and wondering why you keep doing this. It isn’t...

Who Holds You When You’re Holding Everyone Else

Listen It’s late in the day, a client needs you completely present, and your head is still back at the meeting you had just before or that tough email you got an hour ago. A school email is sitting unread, a parent is waiting on a phone call, and the health...