Acceptance is not about long term endurance of feeling sh*t.

When my only child was 14, he announced that he wanted to live with his father...because it was “more fun".

My son leaving home “freed” me to focus on work...and made me realise that it couldn’t fill the hole his departure had left.

The chances are that a working mum has shaped her working life around her role as a mother in some way – if not all ways.

Maybe the only thing we need to change in middle age is the number of f*cks we give about what other people think of us.

We all do the best we can with the resources available to us. What we need to do is find the tools that allow us to become more resourceful.

Knowing your "how" means you're focusing on getting closer to your goal, rather than it seeming ever more distant as you flounder around.

“So you want to progress, but you don’t know to where?”

When we're prompted to dig deeper...that's when our insights happen, and our understanding grows.

When did you last feel truly heard?

Empty Nest Syndrome is real and valid and bloody painful. But being an Empty Nester doesn't have to define us.