MOAL X BUT WHY?

As you have more than likely heard by now, I published my first book last week!! It’s called BUT WHY: How to Answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself.  More than that my ambition is that to help people think about what they think. Be curious about where their ideas come from, having honest conversations about challenging subjects and contemplate what alternative perspectives might be.

The source of the answers for BUT WHY? came from all over – the podcast, interviews with experts, conversations on Instagram but also from here on Mother of All Lists. MOAL is where it all begun. The 400+ amazing lists from you guys. All of the lists have taught me something, but a couple were so significant that I felt honoured to be able to include them in the final edit of the book.

I recommend giving them a read. Thank you so much to the writers themselves.

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• BUT WHY ARE HUMANS RUINING THE PLANET?

Includes an extract from Sophie Tait’s list Climate Change: The Mother of All Problems

• FROM A JOINING SECTION ON: ‘ IN SEARCH OF SILENCE.

Includes an extract from Zoe Blaskey’s list How I Finally Learned To Be Kind To Myself 

• BUT WHY CAN’T I LOOK LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?

Includes an extract from Nichola Garde’s list Dwarfism And What It Means To Be Different

Includes insight from Candy Cohen who wrote the list Alopecia Universalis AKA Loss Of All Body Hair

• BUT WHY CAN’T SOME PEOPLE WALK?

Includes insight from Sally Darby who wrote this list on Life As A Disabled Mother

• BUT WHY ISN’T MY FAMILY LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?

Includes insight from Tom who wrote the list Gay Dads And Their Adoption Story

And from Robyn who wrote Estranged From My Mum and who was also a guest on Honestly podcast

• BUT WHY DO PEOPLE GET MARRIED?

Includes insight from this episode of Honestly podcast on Happiness with Anna Whitehose & Matt Farqueson

• BUT WHY DO PEOPLE GET DIVORCED?

Includes an extract from Hollie De Cruz’s list Surviving Divorce

And insight from Kiera who wrote Life After Divorce

• BUT WHY DO I HAVE BAD FEELINGS?

Includes insight from Anna Mathur who wrote the list Postnatal Depression Got Me Too

And she’s also been a guest on Honestly podcast talking about Overwhelm and BUT WHY? podcast discussing Rage

• BUT WHY DON’T I KNOW WHAT I AM FEELING?

Includes an extract from Lucy Sheridan on Quit The Comparison

Includes insight from this episode of Honestly podcast on Emotional Wellbeing with Alain de Botton

• BUT WHY CAN’T I JUST BE HAPPY?

Includes an extract from Dr Lucy Maddox’s list on How Our Childhood Makes Us Who We Are

Includes insight from this episode of BUT WHY podcast with Matt Haig on Mental Health

• BUT WHY DOESN’T MONEY GROW ON TREES?

Includes insight from Clare Seal who wrote £25k Of Debt. How I Got Into And How I Am Getting Out Of It Again

Includes insight from Rachel Kerrone’s list on Talking To Kids About Money

• BUT WHY CAN’T I HAVE THIS [INSERT MUST-HAVE-ITEM] EVERYONE ELSE HAS ONE?

Includes insight from Alex Holder who was on an episode of Honestly podcast talking Money

• BUT WHY DOESN’T DADDY WORK?

Includes an extract from Penny Wincer’s list The Imperfect Art of Being a Carer

Includes an extract from this list by Nicola Washington on Work-Life Balance? Not Me

Includes insight from this episode of BUT WHY? podcast on Womanhood with Caitlin Moran

• BUT WHY DO PEOPLE GET CANCER?

Includes insight from Deborah James’ list Cock Off Cancer

Includes insight from Emma Campbell’s list Cancer: The Gift That Keeps Giving

Includes learnings from this episode of Honestly podcast on Cancer with Deborah James and Saima Thomson

• BUT WHY DO ADULTS LIKE BEER AND WINE AND WHAT DOES BEING DRUNK DO?

Includes an extract from Eleanor Ryan’s list My Experience As The Child Of An Alcoholic

Includes insight from my list Me? I Don’t Drink Anymore

Includes insight from this episode of Honestly podcast on Sobriety with Millie Gooch

• BUT WHY DO PEOPLE DIE AND ARE THEY JUST SLEEPING?

Includes an extract from Anna Lyons’ list What Death Has Taught Me

Includes insight from this episode of Honestly podcast on Death with Anna Lyons and Louise Winters

Includes insight from this episode of Honestly podcast on Grief with Cariad Lloyd

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** ‘But why is there blood in the toilet?’ ‘But why do people die and are they just sleeping?’ and “But why do adults drink beer and what does it do?’ are some of the tricky questions I tackle in my debut book BUT WHY? which is available now  and also on audiobook.**