One sequel too far...
As lockdown 3 limps disappointingly across our screens, it’s one sequel too far. We are trapped in Home Alone 3 and wondering why anyone...
Children's and Neonatal Nurse | Journalist | Mental health advocate | Writer
My Story
I'm a registered children's nurse, former-BBC News journalist, mental health advocate and peer support worker. I've worked in China, Italy, Tanzania, London and Cumbria.
I gave birth to my daughter in 2018 and have since shared my experiences of mental illness and worked for the Happy Mums Foundation.
As lockdown 3 limps disappointingly across our screens, it’s one sequel too far. We are trapped in Home Alone 3 and wondering why anyone...
With lockdown gradually easing, life is getting more complicated. For what seemed like forever, we were forced into tiny bubbles –...
Everywhere we are surrounded by powerful myths of motherhood. Lily Potter shielding her baby from the dark lord, Dumbo’s mummy cradling...
At first it feels luxurious, like you are an economy traveller who’s accidentally found themselves in first class. People are solicitous...
This time last week I was writing my way out of a particularly dark hole. Each word clawed my battered self an inch closer to the light....
"But since my theme will be the good I found there, I mean to speak of the other things I saw.” Dante, Inferno Canto 1 This week the call...
In some ways time seems to have stood still, or rather thickened. It used to flow freely from day to day, thrust onwards by plans or...
After weeks of stultifying sameness, the last week has felt revolutionary. My little girl has been back in nursery, which she has loved...
The return of schools and nurseries this week has become a hot topic in the press, social media and between friends. I, for one, am...
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme is kindness. One of the hardest people to be kind to is ourselves, particularly...
While it might not seem immediately obvious that new mums/dads will suffer more than others, I believe they will especially struggle.
I can feel the effects of lockdown building – tiny itches building into wholescale irritation
One thing I’ve learned the hard way over the 19 months since my daughter was born is that my thoughts are not necessarily my friends....
Blossom white and pink has been swirling through the sun-soaked backways. The seasons seem to be rolling on regardless – some things at...
It is obvious to the point of boring that toddlers are a nightmare. Shouty, capricious little bullies who devote their new-found physical...
It’s official. We are now living in an alternative reality. Our lives have become a disaster movie. Suddenly Boris is the unlikely actor...
In the immortal words of Bake-Off’s Rahul, I am prone to “dooming”. Even when things are seemingly bright and sunny, my mind has a...
After the storms stopped swirling and the green shoots started to show through soggy ground, the virus came. As the global tumult of air...
Self-care can sound either so fluffy and lovely you wonder why we don’t all do it or so selfish that only arrogant narcissists can...
January must have been invented by someone with a sick sense of humour. We start the year penniless, plump and probably ill. It’s wet and...