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If you want to support independent women's media, become a Mamamia subscriber . Get an all-access pass to everything we make, including exclusive podcasts, articles, videos and our exercise app, MOVE. Earlier this year, I ended a three-year friendship.I had finally hit the equivalent of a "seven-year itch", where, for …

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'I called my dying mum one last time. I spent the next 19 hours praying I wasn’t too late.'

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'My estranged dad has 6 months left to live. I still don't know if I want to say goodbye.'

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By Hannah Vanderheide
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By Hannah Vanderheide
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By Hannah Vanderheide
16th May 2026 • Mamamia

Planning a trip to the Sunshine Coast? These 3 budget-friendly spots should be first on your list.

I don't know about you, but these days, my ideal holiday spot is one that ticks three essential boxes: a stunning location, activities that won't break the bank and just a few of those unforgettable moments that stay with you long after the holiday ends. But before you go rummaging …

By Hannah Vanderheide
8th May 2025 • Mamamia

'A week after my daughter started school, her teacher asked me for a private meeting.'

The first year of school marks the end of an era in parenting, and a new beginning for your child as they are entrusted into the education system to help shape their eager minds. But with this next chapter comes new expectations and demands which can create challenges for children …

By Ellen Mitchell
14th January 2025 • Mamamia

The 7 cultural experiences you wouldn’t expect to find in the USA.

The nifty thing about a country as vast and diverse as the USA is that no two visits will ever look the same.Sure, there are some absolute must-sees and bucket-list experiences that most tourists will have heard of — I’m talking about The Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and of course, …

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29th July 2024 • Mamamia

A journalist attended 'Ballerina Farm'. What she discovered was less than idyllic.

Share Leave a comment Mumfluencer Hannah Neeleman is having her moment. The content creator has over 13.2 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, and welcomed her eighth child in February, in a home birth surrounded by her husband and children.Hannah and her family call Ballerina Farm home. They are ranchers. …

By Shannen Findlay
26th July 2024 • Mamamia

No, you're not imagining it. Australian homes are exceptionally cold right now.

The cold weather seems to roll around quicker every single year. Our coats get pulled out of their vacuum storage bags, the emergency umbrella gets stowed into our handbag and, more importantly, the extra doona (or the electric blanket) comes out of its spot, squirreled away at the back of …

By Shannen Findlay
23rd June 2024 • Mamamia

'I've moved 23 times in 25 years and learned one thing.'

I'm the child of serial renters.My family would plop down in one suburb, in one city, in one state and make a life there until a year or two had gone by and then, for some reason or another, we'd pack up everything that mattered and move somewhere else. All …

By Shannen Findlay
10th June 2024 • Mamamia

'He bought my toenail clippings for $3700': Inside the world of a financial dominatrix.

The first time Minki Minna heard about financial domination was on a podcast years ago. The 23-year-old knew instantly it was something she was interested in and when she started OnlyFans two years ago, her foray into the kink happened rather naturally. "People would find me," she tells Mamamia. "Financial …

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1st June 2024 • Mamamia

'The 3-step method that transformed my frizzy hair.'

I've been a frizzy-haired girl since the beginning of time. I may live in one of the most beautiful places on earth here in Sydney, but that means I'm at the mercy of what I consider to be merciless weather. Read: Humid, dry and (for the most part) indecisively hot …

By Shannen Findlay
31st May 2024 • Mamamia

'If you do this with your bins, it tells me one very specific thing about you.'

We smelt it before we saw it. The soft, mushy outline of disposable nappy after disposable nappy, haphazardly dumped in our red rubbish bin — so many that the lid could not close properly. My housemate gagged at the smell of old pee and baby poop that travelled up to …

By Shannen Findlay
28th May 2024 • Mamamia

'The men I'm dating aren't on social media. I think I know why.'

For the last two months, I have dated someone who isn't on social media. No Facebook. No active Instagram account. No Snapchat or even a LinkedIn. We met by accident and then a few days later, we met up on purpose. But in the time it took for him to …

By Shannen Findlay
25th May 2024 • Mamamia

We've found the best shoes for women with wide feet.

Any person with bigger feet knows just what a nightmare it can be to shop for shoes. We all want to feel confident with what we wear — and that includes what we put on our feet — but unfortunately, finding sandals, sneakers, flats or heels that look cute and …

By Shannen Findlay
25th May 2024 • Mamamia

The 'snow globe' theory explains why all your conversations feel off at the moment.

Do your conversations feel off? Stifled? A little... lacklustre? Or do you feel like no one is really listening to you?Turns out there's an explanation for why so many people have lost the art of conversation and it comes down to the snow globe theory. The world of social media …

By Shannen Findlay
24th May 2024 • Mamamia

The 'snow globe' theory explains why all your conversations feel off at the moment.

Do your conversations feel off? Stifled? A little... lacklustre? Or do you feel like no one is really listening to you?Turns out there's an explanation for why so many people have lost the art of conversation and it comes down to the snow globe theory. The world of social media …

By Shannen Findlay
24th May 2024 • Mamamia

If there's one conversation to start with your kids, make it this.

Some of the most magical moments in parenting or mentoring kids are the conversations we have with them. The stories your two-year-old tells in babbling run-on sentences. Hearing the third grader in your class explain the nature of gravity with such enthusiasm and delight. Talking with the teens you coach …

By Hannah Vanderheide
23rd May 2024 • Mamamia

Why we should be focusing on glimmers in the 'hard years' of parenting.

It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times and just when your head can’t take one more hours-long whine-athon, your little people go exploding your heart with paralysing joy. Last Wednesday, I got a call from a frazzled friend (also a working mum of an almost three-year-old) to …

By Hannah Vanderheide
13th May 2024 • Mamamia

Why we should be focusing on glimmers in the 'hard years' of parenting.

Early parenthood, amirite?It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times and just when your head can’t take one more hours-long whine-athon, your little people go exploding your heart with paralysing joy.Last Wednesday, I got a call from a frazzled friend (also a working mum of an almost three-year-old) …

By Hannah Vanderheide
13th May 2024 • Mamamia

Daisy Shelton was murdered 61 years ago. A death bed confession led to finding her killers.

Daisy Shelton's murder puzzled police for more than 60 years.The case surrounding the disappearance and killing of the 43-year-old mother began in June 1964, when a man fishing at a gravel pit in Western Ohio caught a human arm.The next day, divers found the other arm, and a full-blown recovery …

By Shannen Findlay
5th May 2024 • Mamamia

'This is the list I followed that helped me decide whether to quit my job.'

It can sometimes feel impossible to know decide whether to stay in a job or leave.For Alisha Burns, the decision was made for her when she had a baby by herself, with the help of a donor sperm."I had changed so much in the year I took off after having …

By Shannen Findlay
5th May 2024 • Mamamia

Connie Converse wrote a letter to a friend saying she wanted a 'fresh start'. Then she vanished.

In the summer of 1974, Connie Converse was getting ready to turn 50.She packed up her Volkswagen Beetle, sent off letters to family and friends, and drove away from the Michigan town of Ann Arbor — the place where she had lived and spent more than a decade remaking herself …

By Shannen Findlay
21st April 2024 • Mamamia

The 7 best foundations for the full-coverage girlies.

I've never personally been able to nail the 'clean girl', 'natural', 'your skin but better' makeup.Rather, I've always preferred a 'cake-face', 'excessive', 'heavy' look. Call me what you like, but you have to agree my skin looks pretty flawless. In saying that, I've had to go through a lot of …

By Shannen Findlay
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