What Remains: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called What Remains from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores parenting as lived time rather than advice or identity, naming what quietly accumulates across years of repetition, responsibility, fear, care, exhaustion, and love. It speaks to the invisible continuity of showing up, the way attention reshapes a life, and how presence persists even as children grow and change. The conversation gives language to the weight that is carried without ceremony, the intimacy formed through ordinary days, and the steady orientation towards another life that never fully switches off, revealing how clarity comes not through solutions, but through recognising what has already been lived and is still here.

The Future Inside the Room: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called The Future Inside the Room from the book Ghosts of Parenting, exploring how parenting carries the future directly into everyday life, not as an abstract idea, but as a constant, embodied presence. The conversation names how tomorrow lives inside ordinary moments, in vigilance, in quiet fear, in sustained attention, and in a form of love that stretches across time, shaping how parents experience rest, responsibility, and presence. It looks at why this forward weight can feel exhausting when it goes unnamed, how it alters the texture of time itself, and how recognition brings clarity without offering solutions, revealing parenting as a lived condition where care continues beyond rooms, routines, and years, leaving a lasting imprint on how life is held.

The Child You Were: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called The Child You Were from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores how becoming a parent brings the past quietly into the present, not as memory, but as sensation, reaction, tenderness, and strain. It names how early experiences of care and dependence remain active in the body, shaping fear, love, vigilance, and exhaustion across years, and how parenting places people in daily contact with the child they once were. Rather than offering advice or solutions, the conversation gives language to this layered experience of time, showing how unrecognised pressure can become heavy, and how clarity softens it, revealing parenting as a living overlap between who you are now and who you once were.

The Weight of Tomorrow: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called The Weight of Tomorrow from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores how parenting carries the future inside the present, not as planning or anxiety, but as a quiet, ongoing pressure that shapes attention, care, and exhaustion over time. It names the invisible load parents hold, the way tomorrow lives in ordinary moments, and how this weight deepens through repetition, responsibility, and love. The conversation speaks to the structural reality of living with a child’s future close to the body, explaining why this forward pull can feel heavy when unnamed, and how it begins to soften when clearly seen, not through solutions, but through recognition.

Staying: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Staying from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores staying as one of the quiet, enduring realities of parenting, not as commitment, resilience, or sacrifice, but as a lived condition that unfolds across years. It names how staying shows up in ordinary days, emotional fatigue, unresolved moments, and ongoing responsibility, and how it carries both love and strain without promising comfort or reward. The conversation gives language to the invisible labour of remaining present in an unequal relationship, explains why staying can feel heavy when it is unrecognised, and how clarity softens that weight by revealing staying as a structural part of parenting rather than a personal failing.

Trust: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Trust from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores trust not as confidence or certainty, but as a lived condition that unfolds across years, shaped by fear, care, vigilance, and love. It looks at how parenting asks for repeated acts of letting go while staying close, how trust often feels heavy rather than reassuring, and why carrying uncertainty is part of caring for another life. Rather than offering advice or strategies, the conversation names trust as a quiet form of exposure, a relational posture that holds both protection and release, and a way of remaining present with children as they grow into lives that cannot be secured or predicted.

Worry: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Worry from the book Ghosts of Parenting. This episode explores worry not as anxiety or overthinking, but as a lived condition of parenting, a quiet, persistent form of care that stretches across time. It looks at how worry begins as vigilance, how it follows children as they grow, and how it settles into the body as a background hum of readiness, imagination, and responsibility. The conversation names worry as love carried forward into an uncertain future, tracing how it becomes exhausting when unrecognised, and how it can soften when clearly seen. Rather than offering advice or solutions, this episode gives language to the invisible load many parents carry, revealing worry as a structural part of parenting itself, a form of holding that continues long after physical holding has ended.

Quiet Joy: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Quiet Joy from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores the quiet, often unnoticed moments of joy that move through everyday parenting, not as reward or resolution, but as brief pockets of presence that exist alongside exhaustion, responsibility, and care. It reflects on how this subtle joy appears in ordinary gestures, shared silences, and unremarkable transitions, how it cannot be held or summoned, and how it slowly shapes memory over time. Rather than offering advice or reassurance, the conversation names a lived emotional field many parents already know, giving language to a form of connection that is small, fleeting, and deeply real, even when everything else feels heavy.

Watching Change: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Watching Change from the book Ghosts of Parenting, exploring how parents live alongside the quiet, continuous shifts in their children that rarely announce themselves but shape everything. The episode names watching change as a lived condition rather than a moment, revealing how parents hold past and present versions of the same child at once, and how this ongoing noticing carries tenderness, strain, and responsibility across years. It speaks to the silent work of adapting care as children grow, the private ache of transition without ceremony, and the way time becomes visible through ordinary days. There is no advice offered here, only recognition of how love reshapes itself as children move forward, and how parenting learns to stand inside that movement without trying to stop it.

Letting Go: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Letting Go from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores how letting go in parenting is not a single moment or decision, but a gradual, ongoing shift in how care, responsibility, and connection change over time. It looks at the quiet ache that can arise as children become more independent, the tension between holding and stepping back, and the hidden intelligence within this process. Rather than framing letting go as withdrawal or loss, the conversation names it as a structural part of love, where attention moves from control to availability, and where parenting continues through presence even as roles transform.