From Stigma to Strength… sex positive parenting with a history of trauma.
Parenting with a history of trauma is one of the hardest, and bravest things you can ever do. I see so many parents who carry their own personal story of hurt, shame and trauma, and who are searching for ways not to pass this along to their own children. They are...
The Confident Parent Summit
I recently had the absolute pleasure of speaking at The Confident Parent Summit in the US. You can catch my chat with host Keelin Siobhan below, as we talk sex, love, kids & Fatal...
Pregnancy Birth & Beyond podcast
So thrilled to have been interviewed by the amazing team at Pregnancy Birth & Beyond. We got to chat about body sovereignty, how to talk sex with young people, how to set up a family culture of consent and how to get your own sexual stuff...
The Two Words that Broke My Heart
My son looked up at me, with his huge 2 year old blue eyes,and said, in all sincerity: “NOT TONIGHT” After asking him for a goodnight hug, I felt like my heart had been ripped into tiny little pieces, and I was instantly awash with a hundred replies that...follow me @yesiamthatwoman
Just sayin
Rainy Sunday love...
yep. For all my fellow parents of toddlers who sometimes wonder where the fuck your sex life went...
I like you. For me, these words hold so much more power in relationship. I love you is the traditional standard, and is assumed, so given easily, most times without thought. “I like you” is much harder to say sometimes in a long term relationship. I like you is my barometer. It is my love language. I like hanging out with you, spending time with you, you make me laugh. I like your ethics, your humour, your honesty. I like you, as a person.
Having a great conversation about absolutely owning all the parts of ourselves. Especially the not so together parts! Those ones deserve the most respect just for hanging in there!
Three very important life lessons I have learned in combat school this week: 1. “I can do without a mouth guard” is the dumbest thing my brain has ever said. I will now not be able to say the word FUCK for weeks, without making the inside of my mouth ulcerate and bleed. (I am sure someone, somewhere will be happy about that) 2. I was worried about totally the wrong thing beforehand. I was so worried about my muscle tone, when in fact, what I should have been concerned about, was my BLADDER tone. Pretty sure unintentionally urinating on
I think I need the same relationship advice...
I prioritise my partner over my kids…. And I am not apologising for it. Apart from the fact that he is much better company than either teenager or toddler, I choose to make my partner a priority at all times, sometimes to the detriment of my kids. Now, before you get your knickers in a twist about children being the front and centre of a GOOD mother’s life, let me tell you why… Meeting a partner that you actually want to create and nurture another human life with is a pretty epic feeling. Knowing in your bones that this one
