A dynamic collection of Sarah’s favourite thoughts. Updated February, 2025.

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A pearler of a conversation about the impact of hormones on the minds of women! ABC Conversation Our Hormones and Our Minds

Gentle parenting isn’t soft; it’s hard work. Staying calm, setting limits, and teaching emotional regulation takes more effort than yelling ever will. @thetireddad

When a person is drowning, it is not the time to teach them to swim.

I always love it when people say ‘baby steps’ to imply they’re being small and tentative. When actually, baby steps are a great unbalanced, wholehearted, enthusiastic lurch into the unknown. @OliveFSmith

We need to talk about menopause! Louise Newson on the Imperfects. This is my favourite podcast episode to recommend!

It’s okay to do less when you are dealing with more.

Your capability is not the same as your capacity.

My boundaries are love letters to myself. Perhaps the most important ones I will ever write. @emoryhall

Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously. - Prentis Hemphill

What ADHD feels like! A podcast episode that might feel familiar.

I dreamt myself into a mother, but when I became her, I had to dream her back into a woman, back into a woman, back into a woman, again. @katejbaer

Children don’t develop relationships with caregivers, it’s relationships with caregivers that develop children. CoS

The cure for the pain is in the pain. Rumi