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Another radio appearance from this busy couple of weeks! On The Breeze NZ House of Wellness 💖

Full Episode: Former Blackcaps Cricketer Grant Elliot, Marry Willow, Vanessa Marshall, And Piyara Perera - The House of Wellness On this episode of The House of Wellness thanks to our friends at Sanderson Vitamins We're joined by legendary cricketer and June cover star of The House of Wellness magazine Grant Elliott. He’ll be chatting about life after cricket how his approach to wellness has evolved over the years and the i...

If you missed me on RNZ with Kathryn Ryan - here is a link to listen!

The two wildly different sides of a child's brain (and how to parent both) Mary Willow talks about why modern childhood's putting parenting to the test, and why a radical parenting approach is needed to help free kids from constantly responding to their defence system.

In the words of Robyn Malcolm, ‘Mary Willow's inspired guidance through child development is a series of lightbulb moments. Revelatory and pragmatic support for all parents.’

We couldn't agree more and Mary had a such an enlightening interview with Kathryn Ryan today about her book that has just released called Breaking Through: How to rescue childhood and heal the parent-child relationship.

The two wildly different sides of a child's brain (and how to parent both) Mary Willow talks about why modern childhood's putting parenting to the test, and why a radical parenting approach is needed to help free kids from constantly responding to their defence system.

I will be on RNZ Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan at 11.25am TODAY 📻 tune in!

Hi Everyone! I highly recommend this amazing documentary Between the Mountain and the Sky 🌌🌄 You can stream it for only $15. The difference that one person can make to the lives of children!

Between The Mountain And The Sky Filmed over twenty years around the world: The powerful true story of how one woman’s heart opened wide enough to hold fifty children—and change their lives forever.

Stopped off at the fabulous today (shockingly for the first time EVER!) and signed the books they had in stock 🥰 one of the lovely spaces with lovely faces that the book is available to purchase. Thank you for sending me photos of you enjoying the book 📖🌻

Fully Launched!!! 📕💃🚀

There are so many thank yous in order to everyone who came along to my book launch on Tuesday at Meow!

A huge shout out to the many gorgeous humans who helped make the 'BREAKING THROUGH' Book Launch such a joyful experience!
I am so fully launched that I’m still out in space!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all these special contributors who were there that night:
Rachel Barr for the many hours of helping me to create this event and the baking and provision of the delicious nibbles 😍
Stu Barr for helping Rachel with the food 😍
Ian Harcourt and Jeremy Nelson for their hilarious performance as the Guard Dogs! 😍😍
Hana Miller for her loving and masterful role as our MC! 😍
Sean O’Brien for the creation of the music, - the tech and his lovely voice as the lead singer for our two songs 😍
Holly Beals, Anna Wooles and Wade Reeve for accompanying Sean so beautifully in the songs 😍😍😍
Benjamin Blizzard and Joseph Crawford 😍😍 (Mary’s sons), Sonia Frost and Stu Barr for their kind, funny and heartwarming speeches 😍😍
Stu and Rachel Barr for their outstanding generosity and support, without whom this book would not exist. 😍😍
Louise Russell publisher at Bateman Books for her wonderful and insightful speech to introduce Mary and Book 😍
Talia Chong-Hamlin for photography and videography, website and social media design and management, and advertising 😍
Ryan Prebble (The Nudge, The Black Seeds, Fly My Pretties) our attending celebrity cover endorsee 😍
William Crawford for helping Mary’s son Joe to watch the proceedings via phone from the middle of the night in Toronto 😍
Amy Maclennan for Mary’s makeup! 😍
Suni Hermon for being Mary’s minder! 😍
Ben Blizzard for helping with set-up and take down 😍
Judith Palmer (Mary’s aunt) for being our guest of honour, down for Hastings 😍
Mary Tait-Jamieson and Edith van der Meer, also guests of honour, down from Tauranga 😍
Paul Cameron for his unfailing support for Mary and for storing and shipping books for sale 😍
Susanna Andrew and Unity Books for being on book sales 😍
Rahine O’Rielly, Finn Pattie and the fantastic crew at Meow 😍
Rieko Woodford-Robinson who’s brilliant painting ‘Platform No. 7’ adorned the book-signing table 😍
And to all the fabulous parents, colleagues, siblings, cousins and friends from Welly and all over Aotearoa who came, saw, shared the love and bought books! 😍
Eternal thanks beyond words to you all!!! 💖

Love, Mary.

It’s real! Pre-orders are starting to arrive 🥰 thank you to those of you who pre-ordered the book, you can pick up copies in your local bookstore from June 1st (but some may have them earlier! Just ask) 💐📚