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How to overcome the 'ick' and embrace self-love
Does the word 'self-love' bring up resistance and make you feel a bit icky? I get it. I used to feel the same. It can all sound a bit woo...
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Winter Self-care for Mums
As we continue through the winter months, darker nights and colder days and after the business of the Christmas and New Year period, self...
Tapping out of society's 'ideal' version of motherhood and tuning into you
Motherhood is a ride isn’t it? It’s all-consuming, overstimulating and a non-stop bus tour to “overwhelmsville”. Also, it can feel heavy...
Silke Thistlewood
- 4 min
Expectations vs. reality in motherhood
I'd always imagined I'd be the kind of mum that would go for jogs with baby in the pram. Honestly, that was one of the main images in my...
Kathryn Di Virgilio
- 3 min
It’s OK not to find parenthood blissful (dealing with shame)
Motherhood comes with a lot of expectations. The image that so many women have is of a content and happy mum cradling a sleeping baby....
People pleasing in Motherhood, and how to set yourself free!
How often do you find yourself…. …saying YES to others when in your heart you mean NO? …spending time with people who don’t bring out...
3 Ways to Develop Self-Compassion
We hear the concept of self-compassion talked about often but what actually is it and why is it so fundamental to our health? Listen to...
Emily Mills
- 3 min
Finding my feet as September sweeps in big changes for me and my family
I feel lost. What am I supposed to do now? Primary school beckons my baby and I feel my role shifting and changing. There’s an empty...
Libby Stevenson
- 1 min
Yoga Bites: Staying Cool in the Heat Pt 2
Libby shows us a restorative yoga pose to do before bed that will help heat and tension to leave the body. Libby Stevenson is a mum of 4...
Rebecca Fredericks
- 6 min
The ‘All or Something’ Mum Mindset
As a personal trainer and life coach specialising in working with mums, ‘mindset’ is a topic that comes up a lot! A mindset is basically...
Chloe Bedford
- 3 min
How to support a worried child when you feel anxious too
These are anxious times, for us and for them. Anxieties that perhaps you thought were long gone have raised their head over the last 12...
How to create a more playful family home
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing" - George Bernard SHAW Do you believe in magic? One of...
Silke Thistlewood
- 6 min
Loving kindness phrases and soothing touch for mums
We all have a tendency to be really harsh to ourselves in the way that we talk to ourselves and this is often amplified in motherhood. ...
Emily Mills
- 4 min
How to let go of the mother you thought you were going to be
When I was 25, I thought my life was pretty much mapped out. I would get married, have a couple of kids and that was how life was going...
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