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Feb 18

Musings on mum guilt and public policy

It's half-term week. Yay, no homeschooling! My son is teaching me to play the card game of Pokemon, and that is fun. But I find myself dr...

Jan 14

To-do lists - let go & start anew or finish everything?

Writing to-do lists felt so mature in my late 20s. I remember the ecstatic feeling of being able to cross everything off my list and wrap...

Jan 1

New Year Resolutions That Work!

Have you ever wondered why some New Year's Resolutions succeed and some are monumental failures? Oh yes! We've all had a few of those! Li...

Dec 22, 2020

If Your Holiday Plans Have Been Ruined

What are the things you have been looking forward to most about the holidays? Many Governments around the world have just thrown our fest...

Dec 18, 2020

Trust Yourself

Mid-December each year, I like to sit down with my largest mug of tea and reflect on the achievements of this year, and what my hopes and...

Dec 11, 2020

Family Values: How to Find and Use Yours

You walk into a room full of strangers and you get a sense of what people value by what they wear, how they stand in the room, how and wi...

Nov 19, 2020

The three-word guide on mindfulness for working mums

My 6-year-old son is swinging on the swing. I am swinging his younger brother on the other swing. My husband is standing facing me and th...

Oct 29, 2020

Why you need to know your Values and how to find them

Imagine living a life when every day brings joy and satisfaction, when your choices and experiences feel deeply righteous and give you th...

Oct 8, 2020

If you feel annoyed with your children, your partner, yourself

It often happens when something goes not according to the ideal plan. One of my favourite writers, psychologist Lyudmila Petranovskaya de...

Sep 24, 2020

What I did not expect as a first-time-mum

What I did not expect when pregnant with my first baby was that the journey would be as much, if not more, about who I was and who I am. ...

Sep 17, 2020

Working from home with kids - Reality check

Back in March 2020, two weeks into the lockdown, my wonderful friend and a superb leadership coach Amelia Saberwal and I ran a webinar on...

Sep 8, 2020

Working from home or living at work? Boundaries & Flexibility

Working from home gave many people the flexibility to review their daily routines towards more work-life balance, like a morning jog, fam...

Sep 3, 2020

The discomfort you are feeling is grief

Mums, dads, teams and leaders around the world are going through a grieving process. Grief is a normal human reaction to a loss from a di...

Aug 21, 2020

The right way to parent, or to do anything really

The fun thing about The Right Way is that it is different everywhere you go. Look at parenting, for example. My family connects four cult...

Aug 19, 2020

What to do when you don't know the solution

When you have a problem, you start by looking for a solution in the obvious place. It's a smart move and works most of the time. If you w...

Aug 13, 2020

When do you need coaching?

There are times in life when the map of our life shifts. The bearings we have been using to navigate it disappear. It is distressful. So...

Jul 22, 2020

The time trap: Stop thinking about Time in minutes

Once I complained to a friend that, with two kids, time is scarce. The friend's response was "Oh, you do have time, believe me!" That fri...

Jul 16, 2020

to fly, embrace falling

As one Olympic sportsman put it: "In ski jumping, the person who leans forward most wins. And if you lean forward too much - you fall on ...

Jul 16, 2020

Who am I being that they are not shining?

As a parent or a soon-to-be-parent, when you see a teenager who looks disconnected, what do you decide to think of her? That she is bored...

Jun 18, 2020

Group B Strep Test in Pregnancy

In 2014, when I was pregnant with my first son, I had no idea about the Group B Strep (GBS) screening, until a friend told me about it. I...

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ANYA SMIRNOVA

Coach for Women in Law

Supporting women. Educating the profession.