Megan's memories IN SEARCH OF A SILVER LINING

The former lawyer has created a series of journals to help you treasure life's special moments

- Amanda Vaisigano

There's a saying that life can either happen to you or for you - and for Megan Hutchison, it is unquestionably the latter.

That doesn't mean she's had it easy - you could say far from it - but the 33-year-old mother of Teddy, three, and nearly two-year-old Emmie, has prioritised an optimistic outlook and treasuring special moments.

"Despite the hard stuff, if things didn't go the way they did, I wouldn't be doing what I am today with these special people around me," she tells Woman's Day. "I don't want to look back and blame certain situations for anything. Every tough situation I endured had a silver lining - and it was just a matter of recognising what that was." The lawyer turned founder and director of Forget Me Not Journals lost her father suddenly as a nine-year-old, when it was just the two of them living together in the UK.

"Mum was living over in New Zealand with her new husband and two children, so after Dad's death, I had to move my entire life across to the other side of the world to live with them," she explains.

Despite the pain of losing her father so young, Megan turned her thinking around to what she had gained from the painful experience.