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What Strength
Looked Like.
Three years after leaving the Beehive, the former New Zealand prime minister is being read, watched and reconsidered — on a bestselling memoir, an Emmy-shortlisted documentary, and the moments she said the quiet part out loud.
Wellbeing · Michelle Wollaston
When Your Body Pulls the Emergency Brake: Understanding Vagus Nerve Burnout in Midlife
Advice · Jamie Tedrick-Monroe
The Art of Holding Yourself: When Healing Means Becoming Your Own Safe Place
Column · Karyn Spetz
Why So Many Women Are Reconsidering Their Long-Term Relationships in Midlife
Column · Jaala
The Evolution of Break-Up Behaviours (And How My Grief Cycle Changed)
Book Review · Elaine Edwards
A Different Kind of Power by The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern
Food · Mike Devlin
The Kitchen Myths We Still Believe (And Why They're Wrong)
Podcast · Caroline Rena
Awakening Soul Divinity: Caroline Rena's Podcast on Healing, Identity, and Being Human
Advice · Kindred Keri
Help! I Don't Know Which Boundaries Are Mine to Keep Anymore!
Weekly Tarot · Tara Green
Weekly Tarot: Six Cards for the Week of 20 July
Scars That Shine
The Girl Who Was Never Meant to Come Home: Alicia Kozakiewicz's Story
Strong Voices.
Pat Allchorne's
Best Reads
Five books. Every month. Chosen by a woman who has spent her life surrounded by them. Pat Allchorne ran a 40,000-book shop for nearly twenty years — now she reads for the joy of it, and shares what she finds with DWC readers around the world.
"A book left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing — but also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life."
For nearly 20 years Pat ran a second-hand bookshop in Warrington — over 40,000 books on every subject imaginable. Now retired, she reads with the same joy she always has, especially when she discovers new authors.
favourite book?
Voices that
don't look away.
Writers who go where it's uncomfortable — and come back with something worth knowing.
Michelle Wollaston
Why Your Body Still Remembers Trauma Long After It's Over
Julie Hayes
The Avalanche of Inadequacy: Boobs, Bum Cheeks, and Beauty Blunders
Jamie Tedrick-Monroe
Lessons from the Shadows: Mental Health, Healing, and Year-End Renewal
Sofia Pedroso
The Breakdown That Built Me: How a Crisis Sparked Her Business, Shiffully
One commitment to truth.
The Home of
Sir Archibald Fluffington
He is imperious, opinionated, and thoroughly convinced of his own magnificence. Sir Archibald Fluffington III — Fluff of House Biscuit, Emperor of the Side Table Realm — chronicles the indignities of domestic life entirely on his own terms.
"One meow, a tail wrap around her ankle, and a dramatic flop onto my side — voilà. I had secured a human."
Fluff of House Biscuit. Emperor of the Side Table Realm. Undisputed Duke of Disdain. Sir Archibald has endured much — toddlers, vets, expired yogurt — and he intends to tell you all about it.
imperious cat in fiction?