Ashleigh Houlton: Why Should We Be Shamed to Silence? 

By Maggie Gordon-Walker

Finding my voice as a mother living with birth trauma and chronic invisible illnesses – and helping you find yours Opening up about anything remotely “taboo” is automatically “oversharing”, right? At least that’s what society has conditioned us to believe – as with anything, boundaries and professional help absolutely have their place here. There’s been…

Claire Robinson: Loss Adjustment

By Maggie Gordon-Walker

Nearly three years into this mothering lark and still the title mother doesn’t sit comfortably with me.  It certainly doesn’t come first in my mind as a self-descriptor, despite the praxis of mothering occupying the majority of my time.  I feel strangely distanced from it, although I am approaching it.  It evokes to me a…