Alex Trippier is a writer, speaker, podcast host, husband and father. He is an emerging voice on parenting and the role of men in family life. Alex has immersed himself in the work of leading mothers and parenting experts, exploring women’s lived experiences, mental load and family life.

Alex brings a compassionate, feminist perspective to a growing international audience and writes regularly for 'The i' as well as having been cited in Grazia and Marie Claire.

I connected with Alex on Instagram and I LOVED this conversation — and the laughs! He is brilliant and admirably honest about himself and his journey.

In this episode we speak about:

• Alex's reels and his activism in the parenting space
• the problem with assumptions
• why so many couples can suffer after having children
• doing the work on ourselves, midlife 'crises' and individuation
• what doing burlesque did for me (on a deeper level than people may think)
• enjoying life as a couple more and Eve Rodsky's book 'Unicorn Space'
• gender norms and how men and women are judged in society
• Alex's (great) observations of matrescence and why self-advocacy matters
• responsibilities and the words we use
• navigating social media, self-worth and ego
• the medicine that tears can hold

Themes: patriarchy, matrescence, patrescence, parenting, self-advocacy, domestic abuse

We mention Charlotte Warne Thomas, Lucy Jones, Martin Amis, Richard Reeves, Eve Rodsky, Carl Jung, Terry Real, Leah Ruppanner and Steve Biddulph

To learn more about Alex see here on Instagram, click here for his writing for 'The i Paper' and Alex's podcast is called 'Be A Happier Parent', available on all platforms.

At the end, I read a poem called 'Guest House' by Rumi.

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For more insights and to contact me you can find me on Instagram, and/or on my website: www.lucywyldecoaching.com.