This episode is a bit different. My podcast producer is in the host seat and I have no idea what she's about to ask me. What came out of it: why I'm not the fun mum and never have been, the difference between the physical hard work of motherhood I expected and the emotional scaffolding I didn't, what rigid thinking actually looks like in a house with four kids, and the phrase I come back to every single time I'm spiralling about something I said or didn't say to my children.

If you've been listening for a while and you know the parenting content but not much about me, this is the one.

We cover masking as a kid who didn't have the words for it yet, what changes when your eldest is 16 and two years off being an adult, and why I genuinely believe you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it half right enough times.

Plus a rapid fire round

In this episode

• Why I can see every angle of a problem and why that isn't always a good thing
• My best habit, and why muscle memory does the thinking for me
• Rigid thinking: I can be talked around, but you'll need to do it gently
• The daily nag that derails me
• Something nobody knows about me, involving the Opera House
• The North Queensland farm, 100 head of cattle, and why cut grass still takes me straight back
• Myself at ten: white knuckling undiagnosed autism and ADHD and masking through all of it
• Did I always want to be a mum? Yes. Is it what I expected? No.
• Why chaos as the underlying base tone means I can't function, even though I can handle last minute
• Not the fun mum, the homing pigeon mum, and the steady one who's at every concert
• Parenting wisdom from the 16 year old mark: you never master a stage, they just change again
• Bigger kids, bigger problems, but shared solutions
• Let it go to the keeper: how I triage mum guilt in the moment
• Rapid fire, including the coffee order that is not rapid fire

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