Wellness blog

Who hasn’t thanked the pasta gods when just in from the kid's hurling training, with the coat still on (I mean, who HASN’T done this?) and dinner needs to be made in 30 minutes before the kids and you lose their minds? Pasta. Everything, we owe everything to spaghetti or linguine in this case…

  A very funny postcard or cartoon I saw- ages ago now- pictured a woman lying on the floor while her family looked on, puzzled.  The caption read:  “The Server is Down”. I can relate. I bet you can too. That feeling of doing all the things and it still not being ‘enough’. The worry that if you weren’t doing ‘all the things’, would ANYTHING get done at all? And Wait - do you hear bells…? 🔔 “It’s the most wonderful time of the year….”   No sooner have the pumpkins been carved, up go the twinkly lights and the Christmas...

It seems as if the whole world is reeling from one crisis to another, doesn’t it? And all of us are aboard this Terrible Titanic, listing violently from side to side.  It’s no wonder all of us are feeling off, distressed, distracted… In fact, I think you’d have to be on another planet not to feel the dysregulation. 

Women have waited long enough to break the glass ceiling and longer still to be invited to the tables of power. We no longer want to be the plus one, or pretzel ourselves into pieces to fit the power game. In fact, women want to shift the power paradigm that fits our purposes. We don’t want points for boasting about how busy we are anymore. We don’t want to have to prove our worth. It’s time to draw up a whole new structure that supports, not stresses, working women.