How do we talk about women's cycles? Is menstruation still something we keep hidden and don't talk about? Does sex education only concentrate on the function of a woman's body for pregnancy, or making sure we don't get pregnant? And how many of us have described our menstrual cycle as a curse, an inconvenience, or have tried whatever means possible to stop their period coming?

If that is the case, what would the impact be? 

Would we not understand why we feel tired, cranky, get cramps, have difficulty conceiving?

We have all these pictures about how to be the perfect parent and they can all come to a rather messy, puss filled head when constrained by lockdown and restrictions in our physical space. Yet how we approach it can have a massive impact on outcomes. What if it is a wonderful opportunity to listen to each other and to honour what each person in the home is feeling? Join me by to three amazing guests Rachel Mascord, Carmin Hall, Vanessa McHardy share their powerful lived experiences.

Meet two men who have had to re-assess their approach to their role in life. In their separate worlds they had been brought up and conditioned to see themselves as the provider for their families. That meant leaving their wives to bring up their children and finding themselves defined by their jobs. So what happens when their jobs are no longer available? Sam built a $2m company to a $20m company, travelled the world, employed a large staff, was expanding only to find the company experience a major change and close. Greg who lost his job last week but found it was a vastly different experience from the last time he lost his job thanks to the foundation he has built for himself.

We can see children as too small to know any better, or we can see them as equals who have much to offer us by reflection. Ryan Adams shares with great tenderness how his behaviour could have been described as 'rambunctious' and perhaps 'difficult' but to him, he was trying to work out who he was and trying to build his own boundaries.

​Now, as a parent himself, he offers some wise reflections for us, not just as parents, but as a community who parent the many children and young adults in our community.