We’ve just come to the end of one of my favourite months of the year. I’ve always been an October fan; it’s the perfect autumnal month, full of colour and light. It often reminds me of beginning another academic year as a student in Belfast, when the leafy university quarter looks particularly beautiful.

“Look up! Look up! What you see might surprise you.” Old Lady Jackson from Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham. Do you ever feel that you are looking at your phone or tablet so much that you don’t see what’s going on around you?

I still remember the first proper ‘parenting’ book I put my hands on. I was newly pregnant with my first child, just past those first three months when all I had been able to do was lie in a nauseous heap, lamenting the fact that I felt like I’d been hit by a bus. People told me the pregnancy ‘glow’ would come – I’d just have to be patient.

While on holidays in the West of Ireland this summer, I went for a walk by the sea with a good friend. There were people everywhere and a nice, relaxed atmosphere. So much so it felt like pre-Covid times again.

Each of us has an emotional bank which can get depleted. We feel loved when others understand our love language and hurt when someone does not. In today's interview we will be talking to Jennifer Kehoe, a mother of 6 and a frequent speaker on the topic of Communication.

Looking back on it now, I don't think I really knew what to expect when I got married. The man I had chosen to spend the rest of my life with was my best friend, and a part of me believed that once we were married, life would be perfect. If life was a cake, our wedding day was the cherry on top.