Lately I’ve started recognising two bad habits of mine and the havoc they’re creating in my life. I suspect many busy (overachieving? perfectionist?) women share these little behavioural blips so I’m dragging them out into the light in the hope we can get over them together. Bad habit 1: Bringing every task I have to do ...

Ah clutter, that old chestnut. It weighs us down, stresses us out, and makes us anxious. Oprah’s clutter organiser Peter Walsh says: “Clutter overwhelms and paralyses us.” And of course he’s right. I think clutter is one of the biggest crushers of calm in our homes, hearts and heads. And if we’re trying to choose calm ...

Have you ever rushed through your day only to realise there was actually no real hurry? Have you ever worried about what you’d said to a friend only to discover they’d never given it another thought? Have you ever built yourself up into a stressful frenzy only to find that everything worked out perfectly and far better ...

(This first appeared over at Champagne Cartel, an amazing online space for working mums who just want time out to think about themselves sometimes.) We all know stress is not our friend. It can wreck our reproductive and nervous systems and make us sick. We also know that showing up calmer with our kids, at work, in our ...

You know the story. You probably live it every day. Your alarm goes off, your heart rate rises even before your feet have hit the floor. It’s a weekday morning, which means rush and bustle and stress (and sometimes tears!). The mental ‘to do’ list is running circuits in your mind, screaming out the things ...