My 3 year old experienced five separate, genuine injustices this week. The discovery that her brother was carried in my tummy first. The milk poured without permission.

In her mind, every single one was a devastating betrayal.

I laugh and cry in equal measure. But I know she is not wrong to feel it. She just does not have the capacity to regulate those feelings yet. That is not her job right now. That is mine.

This episode is about that. About what it actually takes to show up for small, intense, beautifully overwhelming people.

About why doing something for yourself in the moment can feel completely selfish — and why zooming out changes everything.

At this stage, self care is not selfishness. It is infrastructure.

In this episode:
→ Why children are not irrational — they are mainly just unregulated, and that distinction matters
→ Why regulating your own emotions has to come first
→ Why the run you almost did not go on, the hour you almost cancelled, pays off in ways the moment cannot show you
→ Why self care is not a luxury — it is how you show up for their versions of injustice without losing your mind

For the parent who knows the emotional stakes are higher at this stage than anyone warned them about. 💛

To be brave enough to admit that climbing the right ladder still feels like the wrong life?! Not for the faint hearted.

Anne Welsh is a clinical psychologist, executive coach, working parent consultant and author of Ambitious Mother. She has spent years sitting with high achieving women who look completely fine on the outside and are quietly drowning on the inside. She has a name for what they are experiencing. The Ambition Paradox.

And she knows exactly what it feels like. Because she lived it herself.

In this episode:
→ The Ambition Paradox — why successful women still feel stuck no matter how much they achieve
→ The Three Ps — perfectionism, people-pleasing and pretending, and why they are more dangerous in combination
→ Why your ambition did not shrink when you became a mother — it changed shape
→ The research that proves your career is a gift to your children, not a theft from them
→ Why work-life balance is not a destination and chasing it is setting you up to feel like you are failing
→ What it feels like to want something this much — and be scared of it

For the woman who is doing her best, carrying too much, and wondering if it has to be this hard.

It does not.

You can pre-orderAnne's book Ambitious Mother here -https://www.drannewelsh.com/ambitious-mother-book

A request for a Nigerian volunteer in my son's reception class. I put my hand up immediately.

But that "yes" was years in the making — built on flexible work, grandparents already looking after my daughter that exact same morning, and a version of me I have been slowly becoming since long before this moment.

In this episode:
→ What actually had to be true behind the scenes for that yes to even be possible
→ Why nobody sees the infrastructure behind a yes, only the yes itself
→ How becoming bolder and more willing to put myself forward shaped that moment
→ A rare glimpse into my son's carefree nature

For the woman who has built herself, quietly, into someone who says yes.