Anna Carroll

Perimenopause is the slow withdrawal of the hormones that helped you put up with things you probably shouldn't have been putting up with in the first place. The job that doesn't pay enough and stopped being fulfilling years ago. The relationship or friendship where the dynamic turned toxic or was always that way, if you're honest. The renovation that keeps getting pushed to next year. The lifestyle changes you know would make you feel better but somehow never quite make it to the top of the...

It's winter in Australia, and in winter us farmers do bonfires. Yes, it took me years and some serious belief-shedding to be able to call myself that. But that's a story for another post. In conversations while staring at the beautiful flames, a few questions arise: is hypnosis even real? Does it really work? Depending on my mood and the audience, I explain how and why it is. Sometimes at length. Sometimes not. The shortest, funniest answer I've ever given came at the end of a long night....

Willpower gets all the credit. You failed to quit sugar, cut back on wine, put down your phone, stop catastrophising at 2am - and somehow you believed that the problem was you. You don't have enough grit. You are not disciplined enough. You are not good enough. If you just tried harder, you'd crack it. I want to offer you a different story. A story where you actually have a fighting chance. A story based on science. The willpower myth Willpower is real and it's a neurological process. When...