Gratitude and joy Have you ever felt like you can’t get too happy about something just in case it goes wrong? Or you stop yourself from feeling the full amount of joy because you feel like the moment could be lost any second? Other times, when...
Shifting towards what matters I love the quote by James Clear: “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” I love it because we can have the best intentions, the most challenging goals, but if we...
Ok, so before we move on to some of the other things I’ve experienced and learnt, we’ve got to address a pretty big elephant in the room. One that most of us probably can relate to, which we deal with daily, I’d say, if we’re...
When I was in school, I wasn’t really sure what work I wanted to do one day. From the day I could tot around in my mom’s high heels and high waisted pencil skirts, I loved the idea of high heels and suit jackets. I...
A week before my 38th birthday, I woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus. The only thing that got me out of bed was having to run to the loo to throw up. My thoughts were “get up, you’ll be fine. ...
It was the perfect beach afternoon. There was a cool breeze coming off the cold sea, mixed with the warm winds from the sand and mountains behind us. The beach was packed with people playing ball games and chatting happily with family and friends. There...
Gosh, there is just so much heaviness around us at the moment, in the world and in our beautiful country. This inevitably spills over into our homes and it’s often the moms who feel this pressure the most. So, this post is a bit of encouragement for...
It was 2:30pm. I found them in the TV lounge. Again. For the third time today, after telling them about 300 times that there was to be no more TV until evening. Just a few moments before, they’d been building forts at the back of...
Two weeks into maternity leave - away from the office, offline from clients and deliverables. Since my last Teams call, we’ve welcomed a new little human to our tribe. A human that came from my body, after baking there for 39 weeks. It is an incredible privilege to...
Is there still good in this world when around me there are young families going through divorce, when a young father died of cancer and a mother of four died after years of fighting a terminal disease. Are there still good things when a friend...