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Writing from the edges of life on grief, nervous systems, parenting, and what it means to be human. Sometimes clinical. Sometimes personal. Always honest.
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My most recent piece, read it when you have a quiet moment.
What are we Calling Normal?
After nearly forty years of nursing, I've started to wonder whether what we've come to call "normal" is actually a level of stress we've simply learned to live with. This isn't just a health conversation. It's about the invisible load we're asking families to carry, and what that might be costing us all.
You are allowed to stop holding it all
Sometimes life slows you down before you choose to slow yourself.
This is the part of my story where everything finally got quiet enough for me to hear what my body had been trying to say for decades. Maybe you’re somewhere in that quiet middle too.
Chaos in Cairo
My Nerdy Brain
Trying to understand how my brain works is mind-blowing stuff!
It’s Ok not to be Ok
We can be our own greatest cheerleaders but sadly our own worst critics. Let’s talk PND!
A Mother is Born
The day I rang my younger sister in England to tell her I was pregnant, she said “Err? you don’t like kids!”
Timeless Pain
Shamefully that handover, there was one allocated patient, that made my heart sink.
Rural Muster
Her pupils dilated and she said, ‘Oh my god’.
Camp Mother
I became ‘Camp Mother’ so to speak!
Toxic Flu
You came to see me that day, for a completely different reason, you told me you had the ‘flu’.
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