Let’s all make 2025 a great, authentic year. Shed those senseless, self-imposed expectations and limits and just allow ourselves to just be. Let’s take the things that matter into our own hands and focus on making them happen.

Motherhood takes emotions to a whole new level. On one side of the spectrum there is pure love. On the other there is uncontrollable, irrational rage. Paulann Grech sheds light on what causes this normal reaction in mothers and offers some tips to control it.

When I first became a mother I experienced what felt vaguely familiar. It felt like adolescence: the insecurities, uncomfortable feelings, changing body parts, hormones and more. I was going through matrescence. Perinatal psychiatrists Ethel Felice and Rachel Buhagiar talk about this transition from woman to mother.

We are all familiar with that experiment in which a Mentos is dropped into a bottle of cola - and the bottle rockets. If we imagine our body as the bottle and our hormones as the Mentos – then the chemical reaction can be explosive, emotionally speaking.

I often feel like my mind is everywhere and nowhere. Within the span of a few minutes my mind plays mental hopscotch jumping around from one task to another. It’s all about the mental load.