Psychologies

Coming up for air Moving on

Recently, I moved my family from our old home to a new one. It feels strange to describe that massive shift in one short sentence, because the reality of uprooting my children from the only house some of them have known has taken endless planning. Our old house, which we had only intended to live in while the children were babies, finally became too small.

I think and write a lot about what makes a home – what defines the

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