This week I’m choosing to be kind to myself. I’m choosing to ease off the pressure. I’m choosing to allow myself to sit down when I feel tired and slow down when I feel overwhelmed.

I have been haunted by the urge to dance. I want to learn to dance. I don’t want to become a dancing star. I don’t want to take part in concerts. I want to have fun. I want to feel the music. I want to let go.

September is a time of change. Summer is ending. School is about to start. This is the time of year when the dormant mummy chat – that semi-hibernates over the summer – reawakens.

For the past decade, creative entrepreneur Lorinda Mamo has been sharing her life journey with readers to offer inspiration and support. She shares her feel-good formula.

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.

When I became a mother my sister told me that motherhood is a process of letting go. Back then I did not truly understand what this meant. Now I know.

Miscarriage. Here is a word we grow up hearing thrown around every now and again. But the severity of what a woman and her partner are going through is only known to those who really experience the dark reality behind the word.

From children’s books to school textbooks and adult novels, Clare Azzopardi is a household name to anyone who appreciates Maltese literature. She shares her feel-good formula.

We tell our children to wish for the stars. To believe in magic. But when it comes to ourselves, we try to make our dreams fit into “reality”. And our version of reality is much more stringent and unforgiving.

As parents we often feel overwhelmed. Sarah Carabott opens up about the haunting feeling mothers often experience - that we are unprepared and getting it wrong.