Why the world is ignorant and we need to question it. — The first thing I realized as I desperately breastfed my firstborn, was how little information I found about why I struggled. I felt alone. Not only that, but the advice I did receive wasn’t enough — and I only questioned it because it is simply in my nature to do…

Help change your perspective for better results next year. — It’s that time of the year when magic is all around and we love Mariah Carey and Michael Buble again. But what goes up must come down. The bubble will burst. Fast forward to January, when everyone has made their New Years' Resolutions and are recovering from hangovers and too…

How nurturing the mundane can improve your lifestyle. — You all know how important self-care is, but you might still not implement it regularly or seriously enough. You may tell yourself you don’t have time, or maybe you don’t feel like you deserve it because of your neverending obligations to whatever or whomever in your life — work, family…

Enhancing the power of small occurrences. — Road rage is a thing that I never considered I had. Until I found myself yelling while driving on the same stretch of road every day. It would catch me off guard without fail each time. The nerve, the frustration, the fury. And then it would pass and I didn’t…

The challenges I’ve faced getting everything done and more. — They tried to teach us this in school, but it’s just not the same. They’d teach us with exam durations and deadlines. Time management. But that skill is applied in a totally different way when you’re a parent. We’re talking black belt Karate of timekeeping. As a stay-at-home mama, I…

Avoiding resentment and empathy fatigue in your relationships. — Imagine your co-worker is constantly going through bouts of intense bad luck and painful events. Depression, anxiety, divorce — doom and gloom stuff. Imagine her depression is starting to weigh on you. Imagine at the same time, you have two small children to look after, and they take up the…

Go big or go home, right? — I’ve been a stay-at-home mama for almost 4 years, and I have loved every minute of it. But I have wanted a different kind of baby for a while. I just didn’t kick myself into action until one day it finally came to me as to how to do it. …

The side of parenting that seems to be in fashion — tidying up! — I thought being a parent to one child was hard, but then I saw how easy it was in retrospect when I had my second. Being a parent of two is a whole new ball game. Now there’s day care and extracurricular classes to get to on time. Now my…

How to channel it in a healthy way without over-exerting yourself. — When I was working with vulnerable people for the local government a few years ago, I was exposed to lots of horror stories. Victims of torture, victims of rape. War stories. Escape stories. The worst of the worst. My job was to provide practical help for refugees resettling in the…