M+ LIFE: THE GOOD DECISION DIARY BY ANNA MATHUR

Parenting can often feel like a relentless stream of decisions — from the small and practical (“What’s for dinner?”) to the ones that keep you awake at night.

Few people capture the highs, lows and in-betweens of this experience quite like Anna Mathur. A psychotherapist, bestselling author and mum of three, Anna has built a trusted platform helping parents navigate the overwhelm that so often comes with raising little humans.

Well known to the Mother+ audience (she’s spoken at our events twice), Anna has become a voice mothers instinctively turn to: supportive, practical, and refreshingly real.

Her sixth book, The Good Decision Diary, is her most interactive yet. Designed as a daily guide, it takes readers through 21 days of reflection and a 14-day practice of questioning habits and patterns.

Rather than prescribing answers, Anna equips parents to pause before rushing to seek advice, replace perfection with progress, and view regret not as a punishment, but as a teacher.

With Anna Mathur at the launch of her book The Good Decision Diary

It’s a diary that feels like a personal mentor in print. Across its pages, Anna encourages readers to notice whose voices are shaping their choices, to extend to themselves the same kindness they offer their children, and to recognise that the best decisions are rarely the perfect ones — they’re the ones aligned with your own values.

What makes this book resonate is Anna’s voice running throughout it: warm, relatable, and grounded in both professional expertise and lived experience.

For parents who constantly second-guess themselves, her guidance is a gentle reminder that progress matters more than perfection, and that confidence is built not in the absence of mistakes, but in learning from them.

Practical yet compassionate, The Good Decision Diary is less about “getting it right” every time and more about finding clarity, calm, and confidence in the messiness of real family life, which we can all agree is something we need more of in our lives.

The Good Decision Diary: Your daily guide to making better decisions, more of the time by Anna Mathur, buy your copy here.