The parenting influencer has a nanny, a cleaner and a massive diamond ring. So why do the rest of us feel like we’re failing at parenthood?
A PRETTY THOUGHT ·
MIND & PSYCHOLOGY
On self-concept, the power of words and the curious relationship between what we believe and what becomes possible.
Dear Universe, we need to talk.
I’d quite like my own child therapy clinic. Somewhere beautiful and welcoming, where children feel safe, families feel supported and I can finally put all those ideas I’ve been collecting into practice. I can already imagine the rooms, the atmosphere and the toys. Particularly the toys.
On Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, two sisters, and the different ways love survives the unthinkable.
Contains major spoilers for The Nightingale.
Some books stay with us because of their stories. Others stay with us because of the people we meet inside them, people who begin as strangers on a page and somehow become impossible to forget.
A PRETTY THOUGHT ·
CULTURE & PERSONAL ESSAY
On growing older, questionable love stories and the four women I keep coming back to.
I was 19 when I first watched Sex and the City, and I wanted what those four women had.
Not necessarily the men. I wanted the endless brunches, girls’ holidays, conversations about absolutely anything and the reassuring knowledge that, whatever happened, there would always be someone to call.
