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Menopause anxiety as a mum and menopause doctor (+ symptom checker)
Trees stood tall above me casting long shadows, the sound of the twigs snapping underfoot echoed, my skin felt cold and clammy and my...
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The Nourish Blog
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Helping mums navigate the emotions and struggles of motherhood and find more connection, compassion & calm.
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Lucy Higgins
- 5 min
Finding motherhood hard isn’t your fault and how to empower yourself
Working with women who are mothers I feel privileged to have a front row seat into their inner world. The added pressures that mothers...
What is emotional health and how do we boost it?
While it’s nice to feel happy, pressure to be happy is far from healthy and can genuinely add to our burden. Rather than a perpetual good...
Ali Fanshawe
- 4 min
How to change your “core scripts” for more harmony for you and your fizzy kids
Do you have those days when you are standing at the bottom of the stairs hollering at your child ‘How DARE you talk to me like that!’ Or...
Charlotte Lewis
- 3 min
The cornerstone of mental health for mothers is self-care: 5 ways to make yourself a priority
Being a mother is the best reason you’ll ever have to take care of yourself. It’s important to nourish yourself in order to pour that...
Tips for a calmer start to the school day
Getting the kids out the door on school days is a challenge for every parent, but there are things we can do to promote collective...
Nourish
- 7 min
Does motherhood mean happiness and how to stay positive
At this moment of the year, with the inevitable big emotions flying around the house and peak stress, happiness may seem like a long way...
Practical ways to boost resilience
We’re all on board when it comes to resilience – we get how important it is and we are motivated to develop our capacity to bounce back,...
Yvonne Bignall
- 4 min
Why self-care is hard and how to make it easier
We all have the same 24-hours per day to work with, but we don’t all have the same responsibilities. So how do we fulfil each of the...
Sara Johnson
- 6 min
What is yoga nidra and how does it help? An interview with Sara Johnson
Can you tell us a bit about what yoga nidra is and how it helps mums? Yoga Nidra is such a tonic; it promotes the deepest kind of rest...
Lucy Higgins
- 4 min
Sick of being told you need to slow down? How to avoid burnout when slowing down isn’t an option
For the past 18 months my friends and family have continuously warned me that I needed to slow down. But I felt I had no choice, I was in...
Coping with curveballs: accepting uncertainty, letting go of plans and dealing with disappointment
We’re still in a time of shifting sands, guidelines and rules changing, impinging on what we can and cannot do. But if we don’t plan,...
Marion Shortt
- 3 min
Sleep deprivation, desperation and self-care
When my two daughters were four and six, my husband and I had a glimpse of something. We had a stretch of unbroken sleep for almost two...
Your 5 Minute Visual Escape within Your Protective Bubble
Join Sophie for this weeks 5 minute visual escape and create your own protective bubble. How will it feel to have your own bubble to...
Charlotte Lewis
- 4 min
5 powerful emotional resilience practices for women
Never has so much been asked of women, especially Mums. After a monumentally challenging year, we all need to find time for self-care,...
Scott Mair
- 5 min
A dad’s experience of postnatal depression
My experience of becoming a dad was an absolute rollercoaster - very difficult, anxious pregnancy and traumatic birth, mixed with sheer...
Penny Wincer
- 4 min
Carers need self care too
All mothers need to look after themselves and it can be challenging at the best of times. But when you are both a mother and an unpaid...
Happy Place - Your 5 Minute Visual Escape
Join Sophie for this uplifting guided visualisation to a place that is special to you. Be transported to a place that you maybe knew when...
Why rest is vital & 3 quick practices
Join Suzy as she explains to us why rest is vital for Mums and gives 3 practices that we can all do. We discover how rest is central to...
Nature tonic: an accessible way to nourish ourselves and our children
One of the lessons to come from living through the global pandemic has been a greater appreciation of the therapeutic power of Nature,...
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