Why you must always be the birthday queen

Podcaster and author Zoe Blaskey talks to Psychologies about modern motherhood, endless expectation, and why setting boundaries, not seeking balance, is the key

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I can pinpoint the moment the existential crisis set in. I was sitting at a huge touchscreen, a 3D model of my naked body slowly spinning before me like a rotisserie chicken. The doctor zoomed in and

At first she thought it was a bookmark or a label of some kind. It was lying face down on the dusty attic floor, a narrow strip of white with the trace of a shoe print along one edge. Vanessa put a ha

What a lot of people don’t realise is that I have a full-time job teaching 60-80 private lessons a week. I also adjudicate at competitions. That’s my main work and it keeps me super busy. People see m