Our thoughts are more powerful than most of us realise (Mini Q&A with Lucy Meggeson)

As promised, here’s the follow-up to last week’s guest piece from Lucy Meggeson.
We’ve had some lovely feedback on her powerful essay about the grief of realising she’d never be a mother and the joy and fulfilment she discovered on the other side of that. It seems quite a few of you have been in a similar boat and many said it’s an experience that’s still so often missing from the conversation.

As well as writing the guest piece, she also kindly answered some questions, just for you – my paying subscribers. Reading Lucy’s answers, I found myself nodding along. Her words are a reminder of just how persistent these myths and assumptions about single life still are. The idea that single equals lacking, that it’s a temporary, in-between state and that we’re all quietly (or loudly) trying to stop being single as soon as humanly possible. I’ve spent years challenging those narratives – in my book, in this newsletter, in conversation after conversation – and Lucy has been doing the same with h…