Self-care isn’t selfish or silly — it’s the inside-out reset that helps you stop running on empty.

What do sunny days and clear blue skies make you think of? Well, it was a sunny day with clear blue skies. Sounds like a perfect summer day, doesn’t it? Well, I was simmering. It was 31°C. Tempers were rising. Family Bike Rides Are Not Like in the "Sound Of Music" My husband had just finished a gruelling five days as the on-call doctor for surgery. Patient admissions were up and staff numbers were down. His workload had tripled with two of his surgical team members in COVID-

"How do you mentally and emotionally reconnect with yourself when you cannot physically disconnect from those around you? Imagine you are stuck on an island. ..and you are not alone Who would you want to be stuck with? What would you choose to have with you? How would you spend your time? Before the lockdown restrictions of COVID-19, this would have been a fun game to play. Who would you have taken before then? Who would you take now? Sydney has been back in lockdown since th

Homeschooling is easy . Parenting is hard. So as a mum or dad, doing “okay” is the new great! But, how do you know you’re doing an okay job anyway? Well, it’s by looking in the rear-view mirror of your parenting experience. By judging based on what has happened to date. What happened 5 minutes ago, 30 minutes ago, a few hours ago, yesterday, last week, last month, last year and so on. However, the problem is human memory is notoriously unreliable. We tend to remember the wor

Which Mummy are you? Long before COVID-19 involuntary home schooling, I was being homeschooled by my then 6 year old. One year before, I bought the pictured oral hygiene bathroom set. It consisted of a toothbrush section, toothpaste holder and 4 rinsing mugs. The mugs had emojis on the bottom of them. As I bought the set, I chuckled to myself. The emoji mugshots reflected our family personalities in a humorous way. The youngest, 2 year old daughter, was the cheeky one :