Episodes

“As a parent to a child with a disability you really have to become an advocate and I didn’t really know what that meant, but it just means putting your foot down. I’m ruthless when it comes to Arlo.”

“Many of us need to get better at [rituals of] self care because being a parent is a massive, massive task & we underestimate that.”

“When I first had a baby I thought… ‘have I totally fucked my life up?'”

“I don’t want to be a martyr, I don’t want to sacrifice all that I am, and all that I love to be a mother.”

“You feel that you have to work as though you don’t have kids, that to be to Mum-ish in the workplace is to leave yourself open to criticism.”

“Motherhood doesn’t define me, it’s one of the many caps that I wear and I wear it very proudly, but all the other caps that I do wear, they give me purpose too.”