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There’s a sacred moment in every parent’s journey where you sit in the quiet, perhaps after the chaos of a school morning or the exhaustion of a sleepless night, and you ask yourself, “How do I keep going?” For me, the answer has always been nature. Life, with all its beauty, can be equally relentless. As a mother of four, a therapist, and a woman navigating the ups and downs of life, I’ve known moments that stretched me to my limits. But through it all, one thing has remained constant—my connection…

As children, we lived in the realm of right brain creativity. We painted outside the lines, made mud pies, talked to animals, danced to the wind, and imagined entire worlds in the clouds. Creativity was not something we had to learn—it was our default state. But somewhere along the way, especially as we entered the education system, the left brain took over. We were taught to memorise, analyse, stay in the lines, sit still, and focus on outcomes. Logic and order became the dominant narrative, while imagination and intuition were…

Weeds. The mere mention of the word conjures images of unruly, stubborn plants pushing through cracks in pavement, choking the life out of carefully cultivated flowerbeds, and turning once-pristine gardens into wild, tangled messes. If you’ve ever spent a Saturday afternoon with gloved hands buried in dirt, tugging at tenacious roots, you know the battle is real. But what if the weeds in our garden aren’t just botanical invaders? What if they’re metaphors for the internal clutter we carry — old habits, ingrained beliefs, tired narratives, and behaviours that no…

We are living in a time where disillusionment runs deep. The cracks in our political and economic systems are no longer subtle—they’re gaping. The widening gap between policy and people, between profit and planet, is clear for anyone with their eyes open. And yet, we still wait—often in vain—for top-down solutions that never come. As a radical social worker, I no longer hold faith in governments or political parties to fix the very systems they’ve broken. In fact, many of the societal disadvantages we now face—poverty, housing insecurity, environmental degradation,…