Maia Dunphy
Escapism
The concept of escape means different things to different people. To some, it might evoke thoughts of a holiday, half an hour with a cup...
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MAIA DUNPHY
Writer, Broadcaster, The M Word
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Maia Dunphy
Happiness
Good news: Summer is the time of year when we are most likely to be at our happiest. Of course this fact doesn’t take anyone’s personal...
Maia Dunphy
Optimism
You can break all personality types down into one of three categories: glass half full, glass half empty, and WHAT THE HELL’S IN THIS...
Maia Dunphy
Friendship
It’s a funny thing friendship; it means different things to different people, and different things yet again at various stages of life....
Maia Dunphy
New Year's Resolutions
“New Year is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, friendly calls...
Maia Dunphy
Breaking the Festive Rules
They started back in September; even earlier in some cruel instances. The countdown to Christmas, ads and supermarket displays showing us...
Maia Dunphy
The Uncanny Valley
“The uncanny valley” - a term coined to describe the unsettling feeling of looking at a human face that doesn’t look quite right; think...
Maia Dunphy
Beauty Truths
"What is really important for a woman, more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining." If you’re wondering what great...
Maia Dunphy
The Things I Wish I'd Known About Motherhood
You might ask yourself, “who is she to pen a book on parenthood?”. Am I a doctor? No (well, I consider myself, like many others, to be...
Maia Dunphy
The disasters, triumphs and bliss of new babies.
I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...
Maia Dunphy
Let's Talk About Fertility
I’ve never believed that youth is wasted on the young. If we were handed it back at a later stage, we’d be too cautious with it, too...
Maia Dunphy
Get Stuffed - Festive Fare
The last few years have seen an upsurge in “alternative Christmas dining”. As low-cost supermarkets bring in frozen lobsters for a tenner...
Maia Dunphy
Beach Bodies
At any given time, you can find the longest queues in the world in one of two places; a newly opened attraction at a theme park, and in...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Fathers' Day
Ah, Father’s Day. Invented some time in the 1980s by the people who brought us such celebrations as Children’s Dental Health Week, National
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Confidence
I’ve been thinking a lot of late (I say “a lot”, but it’s mainly just within that spare five minutes I have at 4am) about women and...
Maia Dunphy
St Patrick's Day Style.
This fine publication is much taken up with talk of new season fashion and all thing Irish this month: two things which not so many moons...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Keen-what??
My now 13 month old baby is (for the most part) a great eater. I find myself swelling with pride if people remark on it, as they see him...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Food, Glorious (Baby)Food.
I’m so excited by the buzz The M Word has generated so far. It’s reassuring to know my random thoughts and mild panics at 4am are not...
Maia Dunphy
Valentine's Day...
Four decades on this planet and I have only recently learned the truth about swans. It transpires that although for the most part they do...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: You Know What You Should Do?
In the year 2015 BC (before child), I received lots of advice and tips, and even a photo of someone’s damaged vagina. Most of it I...
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