womenswisdombykmt

I used to feel a tiny pang of jealousy whenever someone said, “Oh, she’s been my best friend since nursery.” You know the kind of friendship I mean. Matching childhood photos, families who know each other, decades of shared memories, and that one person who has always been there. For a long time, I thought that was the gold standard. One lifelong best friend. One person who knew every version of you. One friendship that proved you were loved. As I’ve grown older, I’ve started to see it...

Some decisions look simple until they’re sitting in your head at 11 pm, growing extra legs. Should you change jobs? Say yes to the project? Move house? Have the awkward conversation? Pick the safe option or the exciting one? The problem isn’t always that you don’t know what to do. Often, it’s that your thoughts are all tangled together. Fear is mixed with facts. Other people’s opinions are mixed with your own. Tiny practical details are shouting over the bigger question. That’s where...

September has a way of making everything feel like it’s shifting, even if your day-to-day life hasn’t changed much at all. The mornings get cooler. The evenings start drawing in. The shops suddenly fill with school supplies, coats, candles, soups, and Halloween bits. Some people love it. I do, actually. Autumn is my favourite time of year. There’s something comforting about the slower pace, the colours, the cosy evenings, and the feeling of coming back to yourself after summer. But I also...