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My birth trauma changed my life ' - what it takes to become a mum (opens the original)
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Rosh was fit, healthy, and ran health policy for an insurance body. On the face of it, you might have expected her to find the transition to motherhood easy.Instead, both of her pregnancies show something that stays hidden more often than it should: the physical cost many women pay to become mothers. This is the final part of my series on matrescence , the transition to motherhood. I started this series apologising to my mum friends for not understanding what becoming one actually costs. Rosh is
Who's script is it anyway? What I learned from Carla Hoppe (opens the original)
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A few months ago I nearly made a decision that wasn't mine to make. It felt like common sense because for someone else, in a different decade, it was. This solo episode is what happened when Carla Hoppe's two-column money exercise gave me enough distance to see my parents' financial scripts clearly, and to ask whether they still applied to me. Including what I actually decided. This is a direct follow-up to my conversation with Carla Hoppe. Listen to that one here: https://shorturl.at/p4bww Key
Grief, self-forgiveness and the gift of being unburdened | Dr Elia Gourgouris (opens the original)
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Grief doesn't resolve. It just changes shape. Dr Elia Gourgouris lost his mother when he was 22. Her last words to him were simple: don't worry about me, I just want you to be happy. He spent the next four decades finding out what that actually meant, first as a therapist who nearly worked himself into the ground, then as the man now known as the happiness doctor. We met at the World Happiness Summit in Cascais and talked through two tools he uses most with his own clients: a self-forgiveness ex
I'd be eaten first on a desert island — Leah's stepmum story (opens the original)
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Leah fell in love and a few months later found herself living as part of a blended family of three young children... during the pressure cooker of COVID. No pregnancy, no precedent, and resources that mostly said: just detach.As part of our Matrescence series, Leah and I talk about what it really means to step into a caregiving role you never planned for. The chaos, the identity loss, the powerlessness, and the darkly funny realisation that helped her understand why she was exhausted: if they we
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