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Have you ever been bullied at work?

    BY SARAH MEGGINSON I remember the day like it was yesterday, and just thinking about it makes me cringe with embarrassment. It was October 2006, and I was working in marketing, helping to put...

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Who knew this could make you so nervous?

          By SARAH MEGGINSON It’s incredible how quickly your body responds physically when you feel stressed or anxious. Like most people, whenever I do something that pushes me even slightly out of...

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“I went back to work 6 days after my baby was born.”

      By SARAH MEGGINSON When I saw Claire Danes “back at work” (if you can call it that) just a few weeks after giving birth to her little boy, I was judging her a little. Admittedly, she wasn’t...

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There go those pesky female breadwinners, pushing up divorce rates again.

    by SARAH MEGGINSON My husband and I live with a family dynamic that can sometimes make others feel a little… uncomfortable. Older generations, especially. We go against tradition. See, here’s the...

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The top 5 lies women tell during pregnancy.

    By SARAH MEGGINSON They say that when you’re pregnant, hormones can make you a little loopy. I actually didn’t believe this was a real “thing” until I began experiencing it myself. Like just last...

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“I don’t know what a 32-year-old woman is meant to look like.”

  Sarah Megginson         I constantly flirt with the idea of quitting Facebook, but last week, I read a post that stopped me in my tracks and reminded me why I haven’t committed to deleting my account...

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3 myths about the flu vaccine and pregnant women. (And why they’re wrong).

Noa, when she was sick.         When my second baby was three weeks old, she caught what I thought was a little cold. I hated seeing her sick, of course, but I actually wasn’t all that worried; kids...

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In this small African country, kids would never leave weet-bix in their bowl.

Sarah Megginson       By SARAH MEGGINSON As with most families, breakfast time is chaotic in our household. It takes at least an hour to get the kids dressed, fed and presentable, and washing the...

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The 6 truths about your sneakers.

SarahOf all places for me to commit the cardinal sin ofrunning, why did I have to do it in the virtual church of runners?I was inside a sneaker store when it happened. I’d arrived 15 minutes late for...

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We cannot console ourselves with ‘maybe when’. Men who behave like this never...

She was head-butted, punched in the stomach, and smashed across the head. Beaten while holding her babyThe chances are that you know Jessica*.You may not personally know the Jessica I interviewed for...

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“Twelve weeks ago, our third child arrived and I am not coping.”

Twelve weeks ago, our third child arrived and I am not coping. There, I said it. Friends and family keep asking how it’s going “now that you’ve got three” and the truth is, it’s tricky. The juggle is...

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‘Embarrassed’. The Facebook video everyone is talking about.

In 2013, Hollie McNish went viral. The UK based slam poet posted a video reading her work, ‘Embarrassed’, a poem about breastfeeding. Earlier this week, a new short film of the poem was released....

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