From 9th-15th October, the annual Babyloss Awareness week takes place again. This isn’t an event known by many by my reckoning, despite the fact that a loss during, at or…

I met a shaman the other day, as you do. Or rather a ‘shamanic practitioner’ who is able to facilitate any of us to open our minds and selves to…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of art in research endeavours recently. Partly because I’m a research-newbie at the terrifying start of an inevitable treacherous journey doing a…

Jessica Hepburn, the author of the moving memoir The Pursuit of Motherhood has been recently pouring her seemingly relentless energy and resources (this lady climbed an eye wateringly big mountain…

I hope that wishing everyone a ‘Happy 2017’ as I did last week was a mere slip of the tongue rather than a Freudian slip I’m going to have to…

I wonder if, as a man, I struggled with our new childless reality through the lack of physical experiences – no sensations in the tummy, no overwhelming tiredness, and later,…