Ashleigh Paterson isn’t trying to be the perfect mum. She’s not plating up Instagram-worthy dinners every night or pretending her five-year-old eats kale chips for breakfast. What she is doing, through her wildly relatable Instagram account @ashleigh.cooks, is showing thousands of parents that feeding a family doesn’t have to be a source of stress.
Five years ago, Andrew Bryan was lying in a hospital bed, having hit what he calls ‘rock bottom’. Today, from his garage gym in Mount Martha, he’s changing the lives of fathers and sons who are struggling to connect in a world that seems designed to keep them apart.
Jason Vaux doesn’t live on the Mornington Peninsula, but for the past two years, it’s become his second home. Three times a week, the 33-year-old makes the 25-minute drive from Berwick to join a community that’s helped transform his life – the Olivers Hill Run Club in Frankston.