You run the home, the diary, the family’s health and a hundred decisions nobody else notices, and these days every one of them seems to come with ten conflicting answers and someone online telling you you’re doing it wrong. I’ve been there, wasted the money on the bottles and believed far too many labels, so you don’t have to.

I’m a homeopath, writer and mother of two, raised in London and living in Cascais. I spent my early career in magazines and then built businesses, and both taught me how quickly ordinary things get dressed up to look special. I trained as a homeopath for much the same reason, wanting to see my family’s health just as clearly.

Less is usually better, whether that’s the bottles under the sink or the things in the diary we only do because everyone else does. I’d always rather do something properly than perfectly, and whatever doesn’t earn its place, I let go without ceremony.

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