It’s a cold Tuesday afternoon. Walt, my nearly 2 year old is napping in his room, I’ve just eaten pumpkin soup and eggs and avocado on toast. I’m trying to fit a lot of different things into this 1 hr nap and my brain is buzzing with day 6 energy, telling me the ground is fertile for new shoots to pop up all over the place. My problem is with first knowing what to focus on and then being able to focus on those things!

It’s been about 13 years since I first learnt the concept of vulnerability. I was in the university counselling office sharing some relational stressors and the counsellor suggested I be more vulnerable and sent me a link to watch Brene Browns famous tedtalk on vulnerability. Watching this talk was one of those light bulb moments.

Currently: feeling tired, flat, irritable and all I want to do is watch This Is Us and eat peanut m&m’s and chips. You know the feeling? It is day 25 of my cycle and I’m feeling it. I first became aware of menstrual cycle awareness about 6 years ago and honestly it was a game changer to