Things my inner critic told me when I wrote Happy: - You're not smart enough to write this - You’re writing a book about happiness. And you use yourself as an example a helluva lot. That’s incredibly egotistical…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
As you know, Michael has bees. (And if you didn’t know, well, now you do). And on one particularly fine Saturday this month, I went downstairs to hang out the laundry. (I’m not a domestic…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
I grew up in a house perched on a cliff, overlooking one of the best surf breaks in town. Every morning, as soon as the sun would peek above the horizon, I’d sit up in…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
I always remind Michael to do things.In my eyes, it’s helpful - a thoughtful show of love and affection for my spouse.“If you’re going to the shops, are you able to please get some butter?!” I…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
Let me take you through a typical morning at my house:The peacock calls (Hakavai sits up in bed and woofs like a dog), I glide out of my gossamer sheets (untangle the doona), slip on…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
I used to ride a tricycle around a cul de sac. A few years later I did an Ironman. I used to have crippling stage fright, spending night after night practicing my speech in…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
When Hakavai was first born I tried to be all laissez faire and earth mother-y. I'd swan about in a sarong (one of Michael's old t-shirts), my hair artfully knotted around a flower crown (old…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering how I have such long and luxurious hair (Tahitian genetics and a quarterly keratin treatment). I know what else you’re thinking (and it’s not that I’m a creepy…
Turia PittNovember 10, 2020
I wore my compression mask for two years after the fire. Day in, day out, all day, every day. I had to wear it. It helped my skin recover …. but it absolutely SUCKED to…
Turia PittOctober 9, 2020
