Category: Adulting & Motherhood
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Mind the Gap
Today is day 3 of my new leaf life sans snoozing. I can confidently say this now as I type, but when my silent watch alarm was gently nudging my wrist this morning at 04h30, there was a moment, a gap, when I wasn’t so sure. This morning I had to invoke Mel Robbin’s 5 […]
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Balance & Stability
Two words that can be used to describe pretty much nothing at the moment if you were to scan the news headlines. Rather don’t. I did which I swore I would not do, and now I’m suffering the consequences. Prime Ministers fleeing countries, pushed out of office, Billionaires buggering around with buyouts and bots, Dystopian […]
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2022: My top 5 excuses for a slow start
Is it just me or are well all really struggling to get off the couch in this first week of 2022? My daughter Ava tells me that getting off the couch after watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S all afternoon is like trying to pull a plaster off. You know you need to, but it’s painful. I feel her. […]
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To school or not to school
Last week I had a dilemma. My usually perky precocious enthusiastic daughter little Miss Janey was tired, tearful and quiet. Quiet. As in no chatting. No words. No singing, not even a hum. In between her sobs, while lying curled up in her yellow blanket next to the heater warming up her school uniform , […]
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Beautiful, Broken but not beaten
This week has been surreal and traumatic on a level that cannot be comprehended, nor articulated and the effects of which have not yet even begun to sink in. I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel bouts of disassociation or depersonalisation.That feeling where you feel like you are not actually in your own […]
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Oh my gawd we’re back again
I think I may just go insaneIs there anyone who can tell me moreHow the hell to survive adjusted level four Am I stressed at all?YeahAm I pissed off much?YeahAm I feeling constrained?YeahThe kids better get their shit together now. I confess I had just been watching This Is Pop on Netflix and had just […]
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