By Ashley Wilson

"When a baby is born, so is a Mother." — Julia Jones

When we are preparing to birth our babies, we prepare for and expect to experience a new chapter of life with a newborn baby. But what we often fail to prepare for or expect to experience is ourselves as a newborn mother.

This beautiful but sometimes brutal transition is known as matresence and it's the journey to becoming a mother and according to reproductive psychiatrist Dr. Alexandra Sacks, we can liken it to adolescence in that both transitions involve physical and p...

By Jumana Khan

I’ve got the whole universe inside of me, collapsed into this 5’2 body of mine. I close my eyes and envision a seismic shift that folds the skies, the underground and the Earth neatly inside my pelvic bowl.

This cosmic origami unfolds, stretching until the stars fill my lungs and the underground nestles between my legs. As I explore this unfolding universe inside me, it organises itself into an axis for me to turn upon, waxing and waning like the moon.

Change is inherent to me; it’s an egg of possibility, fertile and ripe for...

By Ashley Wilson

"Having a baby is a psychological revolution that changes our relationship to almost everything and everyone." — Esther Perel 

I was a few years into motherhood when I heard this quote. It was one that really struck a chord with me. One of those ones that makes you feel that pang of grief, but also feeling seen. That yes in the body and the why aren't we taught this that quickly follows in the mind.

Sometimes I feel like postpartum is one of those experiences that you can't explain. Words just can't articulate all that i...

By Alison Rice

I speak a lot about seasons in my role as a career mentor. The belief that the present moment is the only thing that actually exists, and it’s the accumulation of many, many present moments that sees the overall storyline of our life swell into seasons.

One of the throughways to professional peace — the exhale — is acknowledging and embracing the relevance of the season we’re in while also holding in our awareness that the very nature of seasons is that they change. Change is always coming.

We aren’t surprised when the leaves ...