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.